Something was weird with my Tuesday post, where it just didn't seem to get the visibility that it normally does.
Yesterday it only had eight views. There is a limit to how much I care about views, but I do care some.
In addition, because it was April Fool's Day there was a part of me that worried that anything I posted could come off as a joke.
That was not the only way the date influenced me. I actually changed the song order on the playlist to have the kind of less serious song up. It was just switching the order of two adjacent songs, so not a big deal, but still something I worried about.
In addition, I somehow miscounted the quotes for Women's History Month and had an extra. Sometimes I just go over into the next month, but a quote about racism on April 1st?
I don't know that anyone is celebrating, but there are too many fools on display all the time now; it puts a real damper on things.
I thought I knew what I was going to write today, but I am simply not feeling it. Maybe I had the order wrong.
Anyway, here's what's going on.
I am currently working on the literature study for my capstone. There is a research component to the learning module, and before working that out I need to know what other research has said and what areas could use more investigation.
This mainly involves looking up old academic journals, but not too old. There can be older articles that are foundational and have value for that, but I should not be basing my work on anything outdated. I should be aware of the current state of the academic thought on my topic.
One article that sounded interesting to me was from 2009. That's a little old, but not necessarily useless.
However, my school library only has issues of that journal going back to 2012. There was an option to purchase, but it was $68.00! You are not important enough for that!
For perspective, a different article I am interested in would also require purchase, but I could have access to the information for 48 hours for $12. That is much more reasonable.
As it is, it looks like I have enough free information available that I probably won't buy anything, but that is one of the issues to consider.
It is taking longer than I had hoped, but this is one of the two assignments that I expected to need more time.
I was telling a friend about the frustration of always thinking I should go through things faster. She advised that I double the time expected and then add fifteen minutes.
It's an interesting way of looking at it. I think of it as two steps: first, you are just underestimating the time, so keep that as a guiding principle.
Then, weird little things will come up that don't drastically change the schedule, but are still annoying. That's your fifteen minutes.
It could be a lot worse.
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