Kind of a rough day.
Getting only four hours of sleep didn't help things.
Add to that the fact that I felt like crap so I was pretty much a walking zombie.
Superwoman kept trying to send me home.
I would have called in sick but I had a volunteer coming in for training in the morning and I didn't want to dump that on some poor unsuspecting soul.
And then I realized that the Book Board Game event is TOMORROW and full on panic set in.
Similar to Library Golf but not as extreme.
As that was kind of an extreme event.
This is more laid back.
And I'm thinking like 10 people will attend, which is fine by me.
I almost finished my example today.
By "almost" I mean my comrade and I had fun coming up with game spaces for Harry Potter and finding online pictures to cut out and use as game pieces.
And then an hour and a half later the board was completed.
Now I have to do the currency and cards.
Though instead of chance and community chest I'm going with:
Portkey - cause you're going to be moving either forward or backward depending on if you set a python loose on your cousin or you won the house cup,
and then Spells and Potions - which can lead to you loaning money to the person next to you while being under the imperious curse or getting money for saving your friends because of your clever use of gillyweed.
etc. etc.
It's Harry Potter-based if you couldn't figure that out by yourselves.
I'm having far too much fun with this assignment.
Which makes up for the current assignment I'm taking a break from.
Ugh.
I hate takehome tests.
Especially when they're not actually tests but more like 3 term papers combined into one that's due Friday.
Ugh.
I have two of the three done, now all that's left is the first one. Which should be the easiest but seems to be the hardest.
As is true for most grad school assignments for the perfectionists out there.
But I have to do them tonight because tomorrow is the 3rd and then it's the 4th and those days will involve traveling and fireworks and therefore no homework will be done.
And I don't want to put it all off until Friday night - even though it isn't due until midnight.
Cause that would be irresponsible librarianship.
Or so I'm told.
Is that even a word?
I'm making it one.
Anyway, sadly the homework and board game weren't the most stressful part of today, it was actually that whole future thing that I avoid.
Juwanna and I use to refer to it as the "f" word cause I hated thinking about it.
However, today I was confronted with it as I talked with Superwoman.
Basically the thing is that I work 40 hours a week.
And in the fall I need to do a 90 hour practicum.
At a location that's open the same time as the library I work at and is closed on the weekends.
So I'll have to use vacation time to do my practicum.
90 hours of it.
Which I do not have when you combine it with things like camp - which I will never ever give up, you'll have to pry that from my cold dead hands - and then comprehensive exams which I will also be taking in the fall.
Which again are NOT TESTS, they're papers! 4 of them, basically dissertations and I have a week to finish them.
So why they call them exams I will never know.
Okay, technically it does evaluate your knowledge of the subject, but still!
They should just rename it "the week from hell" as my classmates so lovingly refer to it.
And from now on I'm sure I will too.
Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to do the practicum on Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons and make up for the missing 8 hours every week from mid-August through December 1st.
And I really don't want to be stuck working every Saturday to make up for it.
A girl needs her sanity where she can get it and being tied to a desk is not one of such places.
Anyway, the stress from all that made me overreact to stupid stuff and now I'm all headspace.
Which makes writing these papers even more difficult.
I'm thinking about quitting for the night and finishing question number one on Friday night.
Give me some time to think and confer with people about ideas.
Cause I'm stuck.
Yeah, let's go with that.
Alright, music and I'm out.
Let's do the fork in the garbage disposal!
sorry, i needed that.
on to the real music:
Acapella - Karmin (acoustic version)
yes, i know i posted the lyric video already, go here: You and me are through though, watch me hit it solo, I'mma do it acapella. but i really like the acoustic too.
looking forward to the real video that I assume will come out soon since the song is gonna be released end of this week.
huzzah for awesome nebraskans.
legitimate pre-midnight post, holy crap tag in use.
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