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The BoltBus needs tray tables
Jan. 24th, 2013 01:38 pmI am posting from the BoltBus! We're passing through Bellingham right now. Typing with my tablet on my lap isn't really comfortable; the angle's a bit funny if I use the stand, so I have to push it far forward so it can lean against the seat in front of me. I'm screwed if that person decides to lean their seat back.
For those of you who were wondering (none of you), it takes about a week for something sent from Bellevue to arrive at my place in Vancouver. On the other hand, it took almost two weeks for my textbook to arrive. So if you're snailmailing stuff to me, don't mail anything that can't take that wait time.
In school-based news, I made a PowerPoint yesterday! It's about all the pets I've had, and went "ha ha, SURPRISE SAD FEELINGS!" due to pet lifespan lengths. The project is just to demonstrate that you can make a PowerPoint 2010 presentation, which I can now do. I also found an FTP program for my tablet, so I don't need to worry about wrangling it from my tablet (which has PowerPoint 2010 on it) to my laptop (which has PowerPoint 2007 on it, but does have the FTP suggested by my professor). Probably going to spend a lot of time tomorrow doing homework so that my weekend is free, but I'm not too worried about it.
Well, maybe a little worried about the readings, but that's just because the RDA Toolkit is so dry and technical. I'm torn -- taking Cataloguing during my time at SLAIS will supposedly make me more employable as a librarian, but my brain glazes over every time I look at the intro-to-cataloguing information. Bleh.
All righty, back to reading things. I think I'm finally getting the hang of this reading-in-grad-school thing! Scan scan scan, oh this looks important, scan scan scan...
For those of you who were wondering (none of you), it takes about a week for something sent from Bellevue to arrive at my place in Vancouver. On the other hand, it took almost two weeks for my textbook to arrive. So if you're snailmailing stuff to me, don't mail anything that can't take that wait time.
In school-based news, I made a PowerPoint yesterday! It's about all the pets I've had, and went "ha ha, SURPRISE SAD FEELINGS!" due to pet lifespan lengths. The project is just to demonstrate that you can make a PowerPoint 2010 presentation, which I can now do. I also found an FTP program for my tablet, so I don't need to worry about wrangling it from my tablet (which has PowerPoint 2010 on it) to my laptop (which has PowerPoint 2007 on it, but does have the FTP suggested by my professor). Probably going to spend a lot of time tomorrow doing homework so that my weekend is free, but I'm not too worried about it.
Well, maybe a little worried about the readings, but that's just because the RDA Toolkit is so dry and technical. I'm torn -- taking Cataloguing during my time at SLAIS will supposedly make me more employable as a librarian, but my brain glazes over every time I look at the intro-to-cataloguing information. Bleh.
All righty, back to reading things. I think I'm finally getting the hang of this reading-in-grad-school thing! Scan scan scan, oh this looks important, scan scan scan...
