June 5, 2016

 I did things today. After waking up I read a couple chapters in the class book. I waited until after I woke up because it is kind of difficult to read while sleeping. Following that I read through the discussion post I wrote last night, edited it, and posted it.

I spent a couple hours today finding articles about library orientation for my practicum. I ended up with nineteen of them but haven't had a chance to read more than their abstracts. Those articles along with the information I found on Friday should be enough to cover what my supervisor asked me to look up. I'm going back to the library tomorrow afternoon so tomorrow morning I should be able to look through most of the articles and see which ones are the most relevant.

I spent a decent amount of time organizing stuff for my capstone. I didn't get around to actually picking artifacts for it but I created a folder and dropped all of the syllabi from the different classes I have taken so I don't have to track them down later. Then I created individual folders for the eight program outcomes and four professional values that I have to find an artifact for. The idea is that I will go through my classes, one-by-one, and drop each assignment into one or more of these folders if I think it is a good example of one of the program outcomes or professional values. Then I can go back through the folders and if there is more than one assignment in a folder I can pick the best one. By the end of the dividing process there should be at least one assignment in each folder. Each of my final twelve artifacts has to be from a different class, so I need to keep that in mind as I go along. I looked at a couple examples of past capstone portfolios and they seem pretty straight forward. Once I get the artifacts picked out it should all be downhill. Once I have the portfolio built I then have to create a screencast video of me going through the portfolio and talking about it. That I'm not looking forward to.

I wrote a Thank You note to one of my professors who I have used for a reference a few times, including for the public library job. I don't know if she has ever been contacted but I appreciate her willingness to be a reference and speak on my behalf. So I thought I should tell her that, along with thanking her for being a good professor. I wrote it with my Lamy Al-Star fountain pen because it has the green ink, which came out super subtle on the brown card I used, which I liked. I also broke out my rubber stamps and used the big Peanuts one on the back of the envelope. It looks pretty great. Now I just need to write a Thank You note to my friend's parents who came to my graduation and gave me money.

Tonight I went with my mom to a giant pile of big rocks and loaded up the back of her car with rocks. She had a rock pile in mind but there really wasn't an easy way to get her car near it and I didn't want to carry a bunch of big rocks up a steep hill, so I suggested the pile I saw on Friday when we were looking at the house for me. We had to go off-road but we were able to get a lot closer to it and the ground was flat. We got a lot of rocks and when we got back to the house immediately took a few of them out to the backyard to plug up the spots in the fence where animals, namely a raccoon and opossums, have been climbing under. Then we unloaded the rest of the rock and piled it in the garage.

Tomorrow I don't have to be at the library until two o'clock in the afternoon so I would like to wake up early and call the my doctor's office and see if they happen to have a spot available in the morning, or possibly early Tuesday morning. My left eyelid still has a bump on it and I think is still noticeably darker than my other eyelid. My vision still gets a little fuzzy late at night but it isn't as bad as it was a month or two ago. Despite that, it doesn't really seem to be getting that much better on its own. I really should have called last week when I had more time. If I can't get in tomorrow or Tuesday I'll have to cut into my practicum time or maybe do it right before my Florida trip. I'll get it figured out.

Now I'm going to bed because it is after one o'clock in the morning. Much too late if I want to actually wake up and be productive in the morning.