There is not a lot to write about today. I spent the entire day
working on the slideshow. And that isn't much of an overstatement.
I woke up at nine o'clock because I knew the slideshow would take me
awhile and I didn't want to sleep through half of the day. Well, I
did want to do that but I tried to do the adult thing.
Before I started on the slideshow I finalized my list of questions
about the library job and sent those to the librarian. I heard back
from her about a half an hour ago and she had answers for me. Turns
out there isn't additional compensation for having my degree, but I
also wouldn't have gotten the job without it, so it isn't completely
pointless. I'm going to accept the offer tomorrow. She doesn't have
a firm starting date yet but she is thinking the week of June 6th,
which will be a week after my practicum starts so I'll be able to
settle into that and figure things out. I'll also have time to buy
new work clothes, because I currently don't have to dress up that
much for work and I'm assuming they want at least business casual. I
actually need to do that sometime this coming week because I'll need
to dress up a bit for my practicum as well, which begins next week.
As for the slideshow, I am very nearly finished. I got all the
slides put in as well as the rain video for the background, added in
all the pans and zooms on the slides and matched them for the rain
video so everything looks right, made the credit slide (which I ended
up making in Gimp instead of my video editing program), and
downloaded all of the potential songs. I need to check but I think I
need to add some fades between the slides for the kids. I also need
to make a final decision on the music and put that in. And lastly, I
need to come up with two quotes for the retiring teacher. I want to
put one about teaching before his slides and then put one about
retirement after them. Picking quotes can be hard. And it is also
late. I'm going to put in a little more time tonight but I will have
to finish it tomorrow. At work I can come up with the quotes and
decide on the songs and then tomorrow night I can get everything
added in and render the video. I nearly met my goal. But the real
goal is to have it ready by Wednesday morning, so I'm kind of ahead
of schedule.
I ran out of YouTube videos to watch today so I switched over to
Netflix. I watched Ali Wong's standup comedy special, which was
really funny at times and incredibly personal throughout, often times
probably falling deep into “too much information” territory.
After that I watched The Punisher because it has been on my
list for awhile. I don't think I have seen it since it was in
theaters. And I probably previewed it. I still like it and the
music is still really good. It made me nostalgic for early-2000s
rock.
Now I'm going to put in a little more work on the slideshow and then
go to bed because it is almost midnight and I am tired.
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