Research Journal Entry #16

I’m so close, I can almost taste it! I submitted my proposal for Research and Evaluation, along with my literature review and final project for Library 2.0 last night, and I just wrapped up my technical services report for Cataloging. Once this very journal entry is complete, I can consolidate entries 13-16 and submit those, and then sometime later tonight or tomorrow morning I’ll write my final journal reflection.

The only thing that really sucks currently is that I’m very on edge because Dr. Ma apparently doesn’t feel that any of my multiple emails warrant a response, so I have no idea when/how I’m supposed to submit my graded Dewey Decimal System assignment/follow-up quiz that’s worth 20% of my grade. Super nerve-wracking and extremely annoying.

Anyway, beyond that, I’m about as set as I can be. I may get out of work early today, which would be glorious (though financially disastrous, considering that I’m already missing all of next week and the following Monday, taking off this Friday and a half-day on Thursday) because then I would have more time to visit Steven at work (maybe), go for a run and maybe a tan, make something nommy for dinner or maybe get something to eat with mi madre, work on the reflection journal, and maybe even start on a movie until the boyf gets out of work. But in the worst case scenario, I won’t get out of work til the usual 5, and I’ll just have two extra hours of patient-free time to work on the reflection piece and also take care of all the listing I’ve been meaning to do for Greece – things to bring in my carry-on, things to pack, things to take care of before I leave, emergency phone numbers, addresses for postcards, etc.

Research Journal Entry #13

My amazing weekend is definitely over – I spent several hours this morning crying on and off about all the cataloging nonsense I have to try to make some sense of, and I just don’t get it. It’s frustrating, disheartening, and terrifying that I could fail the whole course based on having severe difficulty with one project even though I’ve been pulling 90’s/100’s on all the quizzes, doing my homework and actively engaging in the online forums, and really focusing on the material, and all for a class that means absolutely nothing to me and has virtually nothing to do with my future career (assuming I ever even get a library job anyway and don’t spend the rest of my life as a secretary or waitress).

Anyway, to cheer myself up, I did start chipping away at my graded Dewey Decimal System assignment, and that’s not entirely unapproachable…merely confusing and contradictory at times, but maybe I’m just doing it wrong. I also put the finishing touches on both of my papers (the protoproposal and the literature review), tweaked a few things in my implementation plan for the 2.0 service project, and all my citations are done, and I did some mental packing for the trip to Greece (which is only 10 days away, ohmaigash). So it wasn’t a total loss of a day. I guess.

I am now looking forward to eating some lovely berries and cheese and heading home cause I get out early today (at 3, woohoo!) and body planting myself onto the boyf asap.