March 4, 2017

 I used my humidifier last night and I think it helped. It could have also been the medication or just time, maybe a mixture of everything. I still woke up a couple times throughout the night but when I did my throat didn't hurt nearly as much as it has the past couple of nights.

My friend's sister had her baby today. I still see her sister as this young kid, not someone who is now responsible for a baby. To be fair to me, she is too young to be a mother, at least in my opinion, so my feelings aren't entirely misplaced. Babies have babies.

This morning I edited the audio for my tutorial. I silenced all the breathes and mouth noises, and cut out some of the long pauses. Then I exported it as an MP3 and sent it to myself so I could access it on my laptop. Other than watching YouTube videos, that was the extent of my morning.

After getting ready I loaded up my car so I could head to my Mom's. Normally this would just consist of my laundry and lunch but my Mom is out of town today and I am spending the night in order to dog-sit, so I also loaded up my night stuff, including my space heater, fan, and humidifier. I also brought my lunch and dinner. And I needed to work on my tutorial so I also brought my laptop and one of the 32” TVs I use as a monitor so that I could actually see what I was editing on my laptop. Basically, with all the stuff I brought with me, it felt like I was moving back in.

I spent the rest of the afternoon doing class stuff. I finished two assignments and then spent the rest of the time working on my tutorial. I dropped in the audio and chopped it up so that I could sync it to the slides. I also added in an intro and outro screen with music. Fancy stuff. After rendering it I uploaded it to YouTube and then spent a long time using YouTube's closed caption editor. It was a lot easier than the way I did it previously with my video editing software, but it was still incredibly tedious. So freaking tedious. I very much dislike having to hear the same small bit of audio over and over again. I got it done though and posted the link to the forum. I was also able to add in the annotations over my table of contents so you can click on one of the listings and jump to that part of the video.

While posting my link I was reminded that there was another forum post this week so it looks like I won't have a Sunday free from schoolwork. Hopefully I won't drag it out too long.

I took a break from editing after dinner to go home and record my audio journal. I also made a grocery list and ran to the grocery store. Nine o'clock at night or later is definitely the time to go to the grocery store. It's so much less stressful when there aren't tones of people in every aisle. Also, shelled pistachios were on sale. The last time I bought them it was nearly $13 for a bag. Tonight they were $5 a bag. That is ridiculous. I feel kind of dumb paying $13 but I didn't really have a frame of reference. Although now I'm worried that form now on anything over $5 is going to be unacceptable.

I watched movies today while I edited. Minority Report, The Legend of Tarzan, Ride Along 2, Bullet to the Head, and something else that is not coming to mind right now because it is two o'clock in the morning. I remembered it when I made my audio journal. Oh well.

I'm going to go to bed now. It's freaking late.