May 5, 2016

 This morning I slept in until seven o'clock due to the late evening and then got ready like normal. But instead of walking out the door after making my lunch and eating breakfast, I went back downstairs and got on the computer to get ready for the group presentation. I was able to double check my webcam and microphone, and read through my script a few more times before joining the meeting.

When I first joined my webcam wouldn't connect but I quickly figured out it was because I had OBS open (to check my webcam) and it wasn't allowing Zoom to use the webcam. After closing OBS all was good. There was another non-group member classmate in the chat and when my camera came on she said she liked my background, which is just stacks of books because I don't have the shelf space for them. Then when the professor came in she said she liked it to and asked if they were real or if it was an art piece. I told her they were real and that if they fell on me she needed to call someone.

We had a couple minutes before we started so I did a quick check to make sure I could get the PowerPoint showing. When I first shared my screen they saw the presentation viewer not the actually presentation. I closed it and switched it to show the presentation on my primary browser and that seemed to work.

I think all three group members ahead of me ran over their five minutes I could see both the clock and the time in the presentation viewer which got me more focused on making my part not go over. As per usual, when I started talking I completely zoned out and didn't come to until after I stopped talking. I think we may have ended up a couple minutes over, which means I probably went really fast. It kind of felt fast when I was doing it but I was just focused on making up for the lost time. Oh well. The professor said it was a good presentation and she recorded it, so I don't know if we'll see it in the future or if it was just for grading purposes. She ducked out after and our group stayed for a couple minutes just to clarify wrapping everything up. I turned in the presentation right afterward and now I'm also responsible for turning in the paper. I need to read back over it before that happens but I think I might add in some of the stuff I came up with for the slideshow because I think it was pretty good and it would expand on the table a little more than I did in my short paragraph.

The presentation event as a whole went a lot faster than I thought it would and I was able to get to work by ten o'clock. I only missed about ten or fifteen minutes of the first class in the lab, so not bad. With the time I had before lunch I went through and downloaded the MAP reports for the classes that had completely finished with both tests. I can't remember but I'd say about half of the classes, maybe a little more, are completely done. I need to start printing off the ones I downloaded, which can probably begin tomorrow. Right now the color printer is running extremely low on three colors so I'm interested to see how long it lasts.

On the job search front, I emailed the one professor I've had for several classes and used as a reference for a scholarship, and asked if I could put her down as a reference for the public library job. I sent her the job description and she said she would be happy to be a reference. I a sent the job description in the first message and my resume along with the second one but she wanted to see it. I'm all about getting feedback on it at the moment so I told her if she saw anything that could be changed to let me know.

This afternoon the sixth graders came in to test after lunch, then I had a bit of a break before a couple fifth graders came in to finish testing, then a tiny break before both kindergarten classes came in back-to-back, and then no break before the sixth graders came back in to test, which lasted until the end of the day. So the afternoon went by pretty fast.

When I got home I didn't really do anything. I called the campus bookstore to get my graduation stuff mailed to me. I meant to call this morning after the presentation but it completely slipped my mind. Now it won't get here until Monday but that's not too bad.

After dinner my sister stopped by to drop of treats she made for the teacher lunch tomorrow at work and stayed for awhile to watch the broadcast of the wrestling match she went to the other day. The camera never really had a close up of the area where she was sitting but I'll still believe that she went. I haven't watched a whole episode of wrestling in many many years but it is still pretty entertaining.

And nothing was accomplished the rest of the night. Tiredness hit me all at once and I've been struggling to keep my eyes open for the past couple of hours. After I finish this I'm going to go to bed. So let's call this good.