Day 20 - Motivation...?

So I have been having a bit of a hard time convincing myself to keep working on packing my stuff up when I have so much homework to keep on top of, so I decided that my best course of action was to post a picture of how it looks in the study currently - the last few times this has helped motivate me to make it better (so that the next time I take a picture of it, it at least has improved).  So I am hoping that this inspires me to make some progress this weekend and make it cleaner and easier to deal with!

Till tomorrow!

Day 19 - Present....

So one of the requirements for my senior project is to give a 15 min presentation.  This is probably the part I am most worried about since everyone else is presenting in group, and I am a solo project.  However, I have put together my presentation, and this is the first slide.  I think it's going to help me kick butt, so I am pretty excited about it.  I give the presentation for the first time on Friday, so wish me luck!

Till tomorrow!

Day 18 - Book work

So I started trying to put sound effects and music into my senior project today, and was so glad that I just happened to have this book lying around.  It has very explicit instructions on how to do almost everything I need to do with it, and it also has suggestions for where to look for the parts that I don't know.  This is the first time that I actually had any help with this project, so it was nice for a change to have something work first time, instead of having to struggle through and make it work in some other way.  This book is also a great thing for two more reasons - firstly it gave me some ideas for things that will improve the project, and secondly because I still have it, even though I never used it for the class I bought it for. Lucky, no?

Till tomorrow!

Day 17 - Doggy dog

So Tuesday in lab, we had a genetics lab, and one of the tasks was to pretend to breed dogs and see if you could get the dog you wanted after 3 generations.  We set our dog to have mostly recessive traits, partly because it made an awesome dog, and partly because it was more of a challenge.  We still managed to get the dog we wanted out of the end, which was exciting.  Here are our results, although I am not sure you can read them!

Till tomorrow!

Day 16 - Colorful, innit?

In our mad dash to pack things up and move, we have realized that we are going to need help remembering which box contains what.  Since I am a poor, starving college kid, and Katie is supporting me, we decided that the best option was to go to the local liqueur stores and get free boxes from them (they always have some).  However, the problem with liqueur boxes is that they tend to be very colorful, leaving very little space to write where each box goes.  Since that writing on the boxes doesn't work, we decided to use colored duct tape (gaffer tape for my British fans) and put a little strip on every box - then we should at least remember where things go, even if we cannot remember what is in each box.  However, I am a little bit brainless sometimes and so started trying to use the tape and then promptly forgot which color meant what - so I made up this handy color chart to let me know.  I thought it was brilliant at least, and now I know what color means what room, so I can pack better now!

Till tomorrow!

Day 15 - Glitter

So Katie and I have been busy packing in anticipation of our move, and today we cleaned out under our bathroom sink.  We found lots of interesting things that we had forgotten about, and did not find what we initially went looking for (which was lame).  However, we did find some Wyoming support stickers, which I am proudly displaying here.  I think it makes me look pretty, don't you?  Unfortunately we did not have a game to go to, so I took it off after this picture, but they tell me that it is the thought that counts, right?

Till tomorrow!

Day 14 - Weekly Affairs

I have been busy organizing things all day Saturday, so I felt that this picture of our calendar seemed appropriate.  We have an awesome calendar that has space to write things for each person in the house, and has stickers to label things that are happening (such as "no school" or "important!").  It certainly has been helping make life a little easier, and now that we are getting good at keeping on top of keeping it up to date it is helping even more.

Till tomorrow!