Hey everybody it's Craig back to here and in this video I'm going to share five tips with you to improve your long exposure portraits using light painting. Alright tip number one is to use a sturdy tripod because you're going to be shooting anywhere between six seconds and up. So the images you see in this video were shot between six seconds and eight seconds. So what you need to do is mount your camera on a tripod, set your camera to about six or eight seconds and take a test shot in a darkened room. If you don't see a lot of ambient light bleed in the image then you're good to go and you move on to step two. Now tip two is to expose for your subject using flash. Now you can use a speed light for this, studio strobe, any type of modifier you want. Shoot it like you would a normal portrait. So what we did was we set it for shutter speed 200 ISO 100. We set the lights up the way we want it. We took a test shot. Once I got the lighting right then I switched my camera to six seconds. Now the third step is to use a light painting tool. Josh was using the small flashlight like this. Now the thing is it can be a little boring if it's just white light. So that brings me to my fourth tip and that is to modify this using a colored gel. Now you can get gel kits from any photography store for speed lights and then you could use them with this. So here's an example of how you would use it with a speed light. So you just take these different colored gels and you tape them to this flashlight so there's no light bleed and that way you can paint with color which makes it more interesting. Which brings me to tip number five. You can also get different light painting wands. Now I found this one at lightpaintingbrushes.com. I'm not affiliated with them in any way but they have a wide selection of different plexiglass wands and so what you can do is you can put the colored gel on the flashlight and then insert it, tape it up and then you can get different interesting patterns like you see in this video and there's a wide variety of different light wands that you can use. Now bonus tip two is to have an assistant help you out with this so that you don't have to press the shutter and then run over. I mean sure you can remotely trigger it but it's easier if you have an assistant and then have them dress all in black. So what you want to do is to take that shot and then have your subject freeze in place and then start the light painting. Now another bonus tip two is it's good if you can shoot tethered to a computer either to capture one or lightroom because after you take the shot then whoever you're with the model yourself if you have an assistant. You can review the images on the computer and then you can make some creative adjustments to your light painting. Anyway I hope you found these tips helpful. Give me a thumbs up if you found this video helpful. Also if you're not already a subscriber hit that subscribe button and hit that bell notification for email updates. Now the content from this video is from a course that I just created. You can find out more about that light painting course in the description box just below this video. So check that out too as well. Anyway thanks again for watching and I'll see you in the next video.


Thanks, Terry, thanks for the invitation to talk, I've enjoyed the meeting. So I'm going to talk about our concurrent masters in genomic medicine for medical students, and this is a program where they can get an MS and an MD in the same four years. So we all know the genomic information is to be incorporated, and about 12 years ago or so we started with DOD funding, Genomic Medicine Project in Guilford County that's now known as I think it's a geometrical connection, and that purpose was to really model more than practice at that time. And we went in thinking that we were going to have to do all this education of the public, and we were worried about all the ethical things that we all worry about, and we found out that the public was not the problem. Once they figured out it was prevention, they really were not as worried, and you explain things to them, they were not the problem, it was the physician that was clearly the problem. And the physicians in private, this was in private practice, which is where of course most physicians lie in the United States, were just reluctant to practice genomics.  And it came to us that the physicians are the actual consumers, they're the gatekeepers to the patients as we've talked about with the ACMG. And without creating a market for what we're generating and the data we're providing, if we don't have a market we're going to have, you know, we could have like a genetically modified food problem where you have many things that are quite appropriate, but because they have the name individuals don't follow it. And here the problem was that they came and presented all the information in the product before they had the market set up. So we found that one of the major bottlenecks is the lack of knowledge and comfort by physicians, and older physicians never were taught genetics, so that's a big problem. And for younger physicians and current medical students, the curriculum's already full, and they have to learn so much for their boards. And so if you were to put more genetics in, you have to yank things out. And this lack of training increases the concern for litigation. I was surprised having practiced all my time in academia about the amount of concern of litigation in the private sector, maybe I shouldn't have, but in academia I think we're all experts. This is not the case there. And they actually go to websites and follow float charts and patterns. So this is a huge problem if you don't understand what you're doing, you're even more or less likely to use it. And the time to catch up, as was mentioned previously, is a real problem. They already have enough to know in their own specialty. And with all the economics, this is just dissuades people. So we decided to do something that we could actually control. And that was create a master's program. But a master's program, not with a year off, but a master's program that you get the masters during the same four years of medical school. And there are a lot of advantages to this. It avoids the curriculum problem if we run it concordantly with the MD. We can train, you know, the old adage and we all know in medicine is C1, D1, teach one well, we can train one individual medical student and they can start to train others. It increases awareness in other medical students as they're going along in medical school. And the goal here is not to create a medical geneticist, but it's to create a qualified consumer and advocate. That's really what we're looking for is to create a market and increases the value, we believe, for the residency for the students. As I said, some medical schools take an added year for masters and certainly that's when I was a medical student. No one did that. But now that's about 15% of my daughter's medical school class. It took an extra year. But that is not the way we decided to go. Incorporating over four regular years gives a lot more time for masters, which is usually two years, one or two years. Gives time for questions, reinforces the training we hope. It also means they keep up to date into the residency, so they're still in the program when they actually graduate and move on to their residency. And for us, it creates a much less intense infrastructure that we have to build because we don't have to take care of people for an entire year and that's all they're doing, but we now can add on and it's less intense in terms of money and set up for us. So it's a 30 credit hour program over four years and we do all the didactic coursework online. And this was one of the first questions is how do we do this? And one night I was watching my daughter who's at University of Miami Medical School. And it was midnight and she was in her pajamas and she was listening to her lectures on the video because they only go to class anymore, really, for social reasons. And, you know, she made a lot of sense. She could move it back and forth. The guy had an accent. It was hard to understand. You could write, take notes. So I said, well, we could do this, too. So we do all our didactic discussions and coursework is online and they can do this any time during over the week. And then we have small group discussions once a week where students really like. And there we discuss either what we've on the online material or we go over papers or clinically oriented things. They'll have a laboratory rotation between their first and second year of about a month where there's mainly in the clinical labs get an idea of what's going on. They have one clinical rotation at least in their last, usually in the fourth year. And then they're going to do a thesis in genomics of some type, obviously a literature thesis. So, now, in the training workshop a couple a month ago or so, it was pointed out to do this, you need a lot of support. Genetics is clearly a multi-disciplinary function. And so we do have a lot, we're lucky that we have a lot of faculty that are involved in this process, as well as graduate students from the medical students to interact with. So this is the curriculum, I don't know if you can see it in this room, but the first year we have a teaching of fundamentals of genomic medicine, this is basic genetics. I taught this, this, whoops, I taught this semester the clinical applications, which we did about half of didactics and then small groups and then we did a lot of papers related to genomic medicine and concepts based on that. They've gone through some ethics with Susan Hahn, who's going to be the new president of the genetic counselors. And they'll do a laboratory because they have some free time between those two for first and second year. Computational methods in year two, clinical applications. Again, ethics and pharmacogenetics. And then they'll do a clerkship and their practicum, which is the thesis like. And we've decided already that we need to add some small group sessions, we'll have to figure out how to do it exactly, probably make it so they attend one in every two or three weeks, we'll have running ones. Because this is really an important time to interact. So we started our first class in the spring semester this year. We didn't advertise except internally. The medical school wanted us to let these medical students do gross anatomy first. They didn't want to tax them. We had ten students applied in November from 150. Nine were approved. There was one that was not doing quite well enough so that medical school felt that they were not going to be able to do both. We have five students in the first class, and Forty decided not to move on. Three was due to money. And of course that's one of the problems as a parent of a medical student when someone comes to me and says, well, it's going to be another $40,000.  But I have to say today's medical students it's incredible the loans they're supporting. I would say $200,000 is not an abnormal number or $250,000, unfortunately. Now these are not people who are interested in going into genetics. Neurosurgery, oncology, pediatrics, cardiology, internal medicine. So these are their current interests. I'm sure they'll change some, but that is not their goal. Here's a picture of our first students, five, and why did they enter into the program? Well, they came to realize that genetics is in all aspects of medicine. We went through several aspects, even papers were surgery and genomic medicine, and one of them said, geez, even in surgery, genetics is important. They all have a personal interest in genomics. Some of the interesting things is they've already known their usefulness in understanding some of their lectures, which do, of course, have genetics in it. The one I really enjoy is they love coming to me and telling me how their professors are making mistakes in their lectures on genetics. So they're already getting some background in training and they're also, I think, taking some ownership. And I'm happy to say that two of the students on their own sought out and receive funding for the Diversity Conference on Genomics this week, and they're taking time out and they'll have to make it up, so they're really interested. And it's my plug for the meeting this week with several of you, I think, are attending a conference to eliminate health disparities in genomic medicine. This is our second year. We're doing it with a Stanford, whoops, and Carlos Bustamani is the other co-host. And this year we're focusing on industry's role in creating diversity in genomics. So what are some of the problems of doing this? Well, the added cost is clearly a problem. For reasons that are somewhat bizarre, the out-of-state students at University of Miami, it's free. The program's free. It's only the students in Florida that are punished. But, you know, we're in Florida, so. And not all students can handle both programs. You do have to remain flexible in scheduling. The medical school decided to change the curriculum and the scheduling for physical diagnosis in the first year, so we had to change our curriculum. And it is added time for the students. And they've complained a little bit, because all medical students complain, but they're all doing very well, so in medical school. And that's the first thing, of course, we want them to do well in medical schools, so we don't want to interfere. So funding, the Hayward Foundation, which funds mainly in Florida, had funded the initial cost of setting up some of the videos helping fund the faculty. At 30, we calculated about 32 to 35 students. It should be self-supporting, so that's an important point. We shouldn't have to be funding this all the time. But we do need support for the program of students, and we'll be looking for that. And we're advertising now for our first class outside, so for the class coming in. We've had many inquiries. There's a lot of interest in this, in potential medical students. So we're excited about this, and we think it's going to be a real positive thing. And I should just say that Bill Scott has been real helpful, and Susan Blanton, and Kaleigh is the genetic counselor involved. And of course, my wife, Dr. Perichick-Vance, has been involved as well. So I'll stop there, take any questions. So I'm wondering if, underlying this, you also have a research agenda to really be able to follow these folks along and see what is the short, medium, and long-term impact of this type of a program in terms of creating that informed consumer that you're targeting? We haven't really, I mean, that's in the plans. I think we'll be doing that. We've been sort of totally focused on getting up and running, and you know, a little bit as Larry said, sometimes you have to make changes on the flight. But I think that's very important documenting that we're actually doing something. Other comments? Yes, Bruce? Those that are paying for this, what do you tell them about their, how this is going to enhance their career? I mean, what's the investment return that you can offer to them? Well... We haven't had to really sell them, I would say. Most of them realize genetics is important. And I think they see value in being the first ones early on. They all see value in their residency because they feel that this will be an added plus in their residency. You know, some of these residencies now are so difficult to get into. So I think there's added value there, for sure. It really hasn't, you know, but we're not looking for everyone, you know. So if we can take 10 students a year right now, that would be great. I think that's a good number, that's what we could handle. We had actually budgeted for five, so the first year because we were just internally advertising. But yeah, I think that's always true. But they're spending a lot of money on medical schools. They didn't know what's coming. Jeff, could I just ask, you said you're video taping or recording all of your lectures. Is there some way to make those widely available? I know I asked you this in April too. Is there some way to make those available to other groups that might want to share those either with medical students or practitioners? Yeah, I don't know that they're kind of being done on the fly. You know, they're being done a little bit. I don't know how, we have a, so right now we're using a pen op. I think that's right. So I can, I voice over. I chose not to make a talking head kind of thing, and most of us are doing that way. But yeah, we can certainly share with people who are interested. I know that at the other meeting, and I think it's true that this could be a packaged situation for places that don't have the depth of knowledge, but certainly that's it. And we hope to start a program for residents, or I think fellows would probably work even better than residents because of the time factor. But there's a lot of interest from residents, particularly primary care. In our place, the family medicine folks almost all have an extra two years of some specialty they're doing, geriatrics or whatever. Yeah, I mean there's a, this is a really, I think this is a great program, and I'm really glad to hear that you're talking about ideas relating to residency and fellowship. And I think even in the post graduate space, I mean one area that has done something similar to this is informatics, medical informatics, where you can go and you can do a one or two year program and, you know, get a certificate or masters or something of that nature and many of them involve actually doing hands on projects. So I think that's a really good model. So you don't, you know, you're not a full-fledged, dyed-in-the-wool informaticist that can write code and all that sort of stuff, but you understand the principles that are needed to be able to do the implementation sorts of things that we're talking about. That's the goal, is create the consumer in a sense. And I guess just to follow up, I would encourage you, even if it's not a perfectly packaged program and that, people watch a lot of stuff on the web and there's a lot of interest in watching these kinds of things. And there might be some simple way, I mean we have, I think we've talked about through our education branch or maybe it's the genomic medicine branch in Laura's group, the possibility of storing some of these kinds of materials and I think we'd be happy to do that. One really easy way is to just podcast the darn thing. I mean I listened to podcasts from MIT, from Stanford, from all over the place. You know, as you're going on the metro and you're bored out of your skull trying to get to work, at least you'll listen to a half-hour lecture and keep up with some stuff. Yeah, now most of these have slides hooked with them, but podcasts I guess nowadays that's not a problem I guess. But that may be the exact hook that you use. If you want to get people in, you want to get the full course, this is what you need to do. But here's what happens when you just listen to it. You learn enough, you can get anybody out there, you can get yourself the primary care practitioner learning about this and as genomics grows they don't feel outcast as well. They actually become a part of it. They come to you as a source. Yeah, so we're going to try to incorporate some of this and some of the stuff we're doing with neurology. Neurology, one of the things we're talking about doing, is the big problem here is for existing is everyone wants genetics for dummies because they're so angst about it. So we're thinking about having an online genetic for dummies that you have to take and then you can take neurology has a huge education system in their meetings and then you can take say genetics for MS. Seems like every neurologist does MS. So, because they don't want to know, if they do MS they don't want to know about dementia, they don't want to know about neuropathies, they want to know about MS. So you give them the stuff they need to know to understand what's going on in their subspecialty of their subspecialty because that's really what they want. So, but I think the podcast is a great idea. I had one question. Terry, over here. This is Jeannie. Where am I? Just interdisciplinary, within your school do you have other healthcare providers that could benefit from all this work that you're doing? Yeah, we have a nursing school, so we've had some interest from there. We don't have a pharmacy school, but there's one that Nova close by. Obviously third party payers, we've had some interest, we've had some interest even from sequencing, you know, technical companies who have individuals who are going out in the field who don't really know them a whole lot. Physician assistants? We don't have many a physician assistants. That's Jeff Duke, we had nothing but physicians assistants when I was there, but yeah, it's not a whole lot of them down there. Nurse practitioners South Florida is real big, so nurse practitioners would be another one. One of the interesting things, you know, in terms of looking at the overall educational environment, is that, you know, Nitchpe has had pretty good success engaging with these types of ancillary providers. They have a robust physician assistants course, advanced practice nurses, audiologists, you know, the group that they've had a problem engaging has been the physician group, much as you were starting out with. So in some sense, you know, rather than, you know, reinventing, this is I think is an opportunity to be able to connect with the successes that they've had and create that broader portfolio. No, I think that's true. You know, our focus here was just to get up and going and see if it would work, and it looks like it's going to work fine and in fact better than we thought. So I think that's absolutely right. There's a lot of places going. I do think education is, we shouldn't forget about education here as we move ahead with this you know, this group because we do have to create the market. It's just, you know, when we think business, we have to, it's a business, money runs everything. Great. I think Liz may have had one last question. Liz, did you have a comment today? Yeah, I was just thinking, you know, there are places like Coursera and stuff where you can take Stanford classes and things like that. And that's at your own leisure. It seems like if you had a filmed curriculum or whatever it was, it would be pretty easy to do that way. And I think you can even get credit for some of these courses. Yeah, I think for physicians, CME credit would be the thing to draw for them. Yeah, which they would have to then be hooked to some sort of facility that gives CME. But I think that would be for existing physicians, yeah. Okay, I think we ought to finish up. Thank you very much, Jeff. That's terrific. Super. Next we'll hear about something a little bit different. And that's Dan Rodin talking about a number of programs through the Pharmacogenomics Research Network related to genomic medicine and implementation. Dan, go ahead.


In Fraction Mixup, players in grades 3 through 6 play 3 different rounds. In each round, they create whole numbers of pies by combining fractions given visually or verbally. To play this game, you need the Fraction Mixup cards and a six-sided die. You also need one sheet of pie graph paper per player. Other things that would be good to have for each player are a sheet protector, a dry erase marker and eraser, a full sheet of paper to make a card holder, and scrap paper. Here are directions to make the paper holder needed for this activity. Fold a sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper in half so the fold is parallel to the short side of the paper. All folds are parallel to each other. Fold the folded edge up about an inch. Keeping the paper folded, flip it over so the one inch fold is facing away from you. Fold the holder in half again. For round one, players work together to create whole pies.  Players can see each other's hands. They take turns playing one of their cards, then choosing a card from another player to try to make a whole pie. They should use the pie graph paper to draw each fraction. Here, we can see a player playing 5, 1, 6 pieces of a hole from his hand. He colors in that part of a pie cut into six, then he points at another card. Two twelfths of a hole. The player colors in two parts of a pie that is cut into twelfths, then notices that it is the same size as one part of a pie cut into six. The player transfers that amount to complete the pie cut into six. In round two, deal each player four cards. Players place their cards in a card holder facing away from them. Players can see each other's cards, but cannot see their own. Players take turns playing cards from their hand. Because they cannot see their own cards, they need hints from others. Players can give each other information about a card. They can either tell the player how many pieces of a pie the card has, or they can tell the player how many pieces the whole pie has. Pause the video to study this example. Here we can see a player playing a card and modeling it on the pie graph paper. Then the player gives a hint to another player by saying that card is cut into six. The player's turn ends. Play moves to the left. This round ends once you cannot make any more whole pies. In round three, players generate a random goal using a die and a fraction mix-up card. In this round, they cannot see their own cards and again must rely on the hints of others. Here we can see a player rolling a two on the die and drawing a card that says two eighths of a whole. Then the players play the game trying to achieve the goal of two and two eighth pies. While playing this game, here are some things to think about. So close a player plays a card equivalent to seven twelfths and there is no five twelfth cards on the table. What can you do to make a whole pie in this case? What fractions are needed to finish the whole pie? What fractions in the fraction mix-up cards are equivalent? If you are stuck, ask yourself these questions. Is there another name for the fraction I'm working with? Is it equivalent to any others? If players are struggling to make whole pies, restrict the types of fractions to halves, thirds, sixths, and twelfths. Use subtraction. Allow players to use subtraction of fractions to reach a goal exactly. Write number sentences. As players make whole pies, they must record the fractions they are adding or subtracting. Fraction mix-up is a fun way to get better at adding fractions. Remember to have fun while playing.


Apparently, a psycho lunatic crazy vegan, you know, the average vegan has gotten very famous on TikTok and is using that fame to spread as much nonsense propaganda about the vegan diet in an attempt to convince as many people to go vegan as possible. You guys know how the sky is blue. Like you're pretty confident in the color of the sky. Like no one can really convince you otherwise. That's how this person is with the vegan diet. The idea that someone is so brainwashed they cannot be reasoned with is something that eclipses some people's minds. There's nothing going on up there no matter what you tell them. Now for some reason, she has that SJW Jenner identification nonsense in her TikTok bio maybe trying to appeal to everyone. Do we really have to get started off on the wrong foot with that BS? Like I can't tell whether you were born a man or a woman. What's the deal? Does she know that a vegan diet inverts gender because it wreaks havoc on your hormones? Is she setting an example? I mean I'm assuming she's gay which doesn't really help prove the point that a vegan diet is healthy. You know whether you be an estrogenic soy fairy boy or a hairy chimpanzee banana girl the vegan diet is certainly for you. Animal proteins are the most nutritious foods to the human diet. According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics nobody needs to eat dead animals. Why not choose the side of compassion instead? So this is an obvious appeal to authority of these government bodies that tell you what's good for you. But I didn't know the carnivores have infiltrated TikTok as well. If my girlfriend follows a carnivore diet will she get an adonis belt as well? That's interesting. One thing in common for both the vegan diet and a feedlop beef carnivore diet is that they damage your hormonal system so much you start looking like the opposite sex. Whether it's a lack of animal nutrients to synthesize hormones or a boatload of estrogenic compounds used to raise the animal. We should put a vegan in the Arctic with a bunch of wool sweaters and see if they put them on. Only recently have humans been able to clothe themselves, keep themselves warm with synthetic materials. It's always been wool from sheep, animal skins, hide, leather. But I guess all the vegans have to move to Hawaii because they can't tolerate a temperature below 77 degrees Fahrenheit without shivering. What's also ironic is that honey is one of the few natural sweeteners available in nature. The stuff vegans eat fruit, sugar, dried fruit, dates are all artificial in regards to their limited access. Where we see honey available in many different groups of ancestral people. If vegans existed just a few hundred years ago they would only be eating grain porges and barley stews. Modern food transportation has allowed them to follow an unrealistic diet, whereas our diets used to be based predominantly around grains and animal products. Now the fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, frank and laboratory foods have replaced that meat aspect for vegans. I have to say that is funny. If this wasn't serious, if this was a satire channel, this is genuinely funny.  If that doesn't tell you that a vegan diet can't be followed naturally then I don't know what will. So y'all really need to stop ringing up the inuit and issues of food access. I have repeatedly made videos on specifically address this issue. People that have food access issues are in a category of need and necessity. That is completely different than what I am talking about. And yes, I understand that. When I talk to people about going vegan, I am talking to those of you that have a choice. And if we have a choice and one choice causes harm and violence and death towards animals and one choice doesn't, then why not choose the nonviolent alternative? That is literally all I am talking about. So stop ringing this up. We've gone over these three main points for a vegan diet many times. All of the arguments are wrong. It's not good for your health.   The idea that eating bread isn't violent because you can't see all the ants in it is just ignoring reality. God is good.  We mentioned that appeal to authority just saying, oh, because someone that's smarter, doctor says something, it must be right. He's saying to watch these propaganda documentaries like Dominion and Earthlings, which were solely created on lies to convince people into this psycho diet. Ashton, did I read that correctly?  Well, tell me what I want, what I really, really want. I want you to sing the McDonald's song outside of McDonald's. You know the one that I had that has like over seven million views? No, it goes like this. Eating animals is wrong, McDonald's. Hurting animals is wrong, McDonald's. Share this song and change your entire menu to B.B. Hey, I guess she did end up in some warm climate bubble. Look at her teeth. They're gray, lacking minerals like they're about to rot away. So that's the end of our sex lesson, girls and boys. You can all put away your carrots and hummus now. Just remember, the only kind of meat that you ever put inside of you is the meat from a vegan boy. This is pretty creepy coming from an old lady dressed like a hippie. Also, TikTok is mostly young teenagers, so this goes along with the hypersexualization agenda we've seen in young people, you know, getting an 11-year-old to question their gender. I mean, this crazy lady has over 2,000 videos on her TikTok, and I'm definitely not scraping through them as she's literally a living vegan meme. So you can look up that vegan teacher on TikTok if you want to puke. And overall, I think TikTok is excellent for vegans. They have a short attention span. They can't remember what they were going to say 10 seconds ago. And the question that we have to answer every time is, why do they want you to go vegan? The government, the elite people, why are they shoving the vegan diet down your throats? Very simply, it makes your brain not work. You're much easier to control. You know, if you look throughout history, all the slave diets were gruel and grains, and the animal foods were left to the rich.  And the poverty, the middle class, low-middle class were all eating really low-quality, crappy, grain-based foods. It's almost as if it was planned out that the lower-income people are eating lower-quality food and the higher-income people have more nourishment for their brains and bodies. And the vegan diet is attempting to get everyone to be less intelligent, less successful, and easier to control. So thank you guys for joining me. If you could please drop a like on the video. Leave a comment down below if you can share the video on social media. If you guys do want to support me further, you can go to www.cank-de-fano.com to reach out to me as well as my various businesses. As always, I'll see you guys for tomorrow's video.


everybody. It is day 5 of the reading rush and it is just after like 1.30 and it's been a busy day because I woke up and immediately went out on errands with my mom for picking up wedding things and now I have to get my fancy from work and if I leave now then I can have like five minutes of reading time waiting for him but I cannot count on that and then after that I have my first bridal shower and I'm super excited but it's like a really busy day so we'll see how much reading I can get done. This is just kind of the introduction for the day saying I don't know how much reading I'll get done but I really want to read the Secret Garden. But the thing is is so I just got notifications from my library and I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get the Princess Bride in time because I tried to get it as an e-book but there was a really long wait and I still am waiting for it and I called the library this morning and they might have it for me tomorrow because they're not actually open today so we'll see. I'm hoping that I can but otherwise if I can't get it tomorrow then I have tomorrow and then the day after to read another book where I've seen the movie but I haven't read the book and I don't have very many of those on my shelves if I have any or at least not ones that I've read before like I saw Peter Pan before I read the book but I read the book earlier this year things like that like I saw the movie Le Petit Prince before I read The Little Prince but again I read the book earlier this year so I don't I don't know because I don't want to reread them but like they're such quick reads that I could just to get the challenge done but we'll see I'll worry about that tomorrow but for today I'm just gonna focus on the Secret Garden whenever I have a minute to quick do that since I've been out and about so much today I just got home and I'm just about to leave again so it's been easy to fulfill it in the read it outside of your house but yeah so that's my update for now I'll catch up with you guys later to see if I actually read anything today busy days busy days it's day six it is Saturday and I am outside ready to read for the Secret Garden hopefully I should hear back if I don't hear back from the library today about getting The Prince's Bride then I'm gonna have to choose something else to do and so I will film that later although my sister is coming for the bridal shower today and she'll be here until tomorrow the last day of the reading rest so I don't know everything's just so open the air right now and it's my mom's birthday so we're also celebrating that after the shower so plenty of things are happening and so I'm hoping I can get reading done I just don't know if I'm gonna complete all the challenges because I value sleep I do so yep here I go I'm going the end of day six the beginning of day seven for the reading rush and I just got done going through all of the gifts from the bridal shower that I had today and just kind of putting those together with the bridal shower the gifts from the bridal shower of yesterday and just kind of seeing okay so what all do we have are there any repeats and things like that kind of getting it organized but then also with how Brennan and I are going to move to Minnesota because we have a Prius we're not gonna be able to move everything in one trip so we're also organizing it into what do we need for the apartment immediately versus what can wait until my parents come up the next weekend over Labor Day Weekend to bring us the rest of the stuff so that has been that has taken up quite a bit of time and my sister is in town as well so of course I have to spend time with her and I need to play games with her and everything like that but before the bridal shower I did actually manage to sit outside in front lawn as you all saw and actually read like I literally read like the first third of the Secret Garden and I think it's getting better it moves kind of slowly but it's also like a fast read because you know the language is a lot easier to understand it's a big print so like I can read it quickly but I feel like the story in the plot moves kind of slowly but I'm also kind of okay with that I just I just need to get it done so I did not get word from the library about if my book was in if the Princess Bride was in so I'm gonna assume I'm not gonna get it on time because the libraries are not open on Sundays so I was going to look through my shelf and try and choose a new book but so many books I just like recently read and so I don't want to reread them but as I literally turned my head right before filming this I saw that on the top of my shelf I owned the help and I realized I have seen the movie the help so I could do that and I could switch up my TBR and read the help instead as that would still complete the prompt of watching the movie before you read the book because that's literally the only prompt that I do not have covered by either the gilded wolves which I have completed or the secret garden so the thing is tomorrow is the last day and I am playing a 10-hour board game with my brother my fiance and some my cousin and a friend of ours so we shall see I did not plan that very well we actually did not plan it very well because my sister is in town and so we wanted to spend more time with her but oops everyone's been super tired and busy so I mean but yeah so one of the prompts that I was doing for the secret garden was reading it outside of the house and I've done that all the way up until this point however at this point I just kind of want to get it done as soon as possible so I can try and read the help because the help is not exactly a small book it's not huge but it's not exactly small either so I don't know if I'll be able to complete it in the reading rush which would be such a bummer but I'm gonna do that I need to read now and I don't want to start the help because I for sure want to finish the secret garden first because it is a classic in July is supposed to be my month of catching up on classics but also if it fills more prompts so they because of the pandemic and because of COVID-19 the reading rush has kind of allowed us to stretch the rules quite a bit in that you they've said you know if you can't go out of your house for whatever reason then do something special for reading the book and so I'm thinking of sitting here in my bed and reading the secret grounding because I'm not going outside right now no because skunks live around here we've been trying to catch a groundhog but we're super scared of catching the neighborhood skunk so I'm not reading outside but I do have a window right here next to my bed that's where I hang my lights so I am debating on opening up the window and reading it by the window as that's as close as to outside I can get right now and I may even play some like nature outdoors ASMR or kind of nature sounds to kind of go along with it and put me in the vibe of being outside so I might just do that and try and read a little bit more secret garden before I go to bed tonight and I want to stay up too late because I'm gonna be playing such a longboard game for all of tomorrow and it's a huge strategy game and that is not my forte so I do need sleep but also I really want to read so yeah that's the update for now I would like day seven to be its own thing because I'm hoping to also do a wrap-up in that vlog even if it's the next day but for the most part I've been pretty proud of my vlogs because a they haven't been super long because my computer hates really long videos and b I've done something in each vlog I didn't do a day three vlog at all because I didn't do anything book related on day three it was just a complete wedding day for me but other than that I have been doing really well with vlogging and so I'm just a little proud of myself because I've noticed that I get really repetitive in my videos like I'll say something at the beginning of the book and then when I review at the end I say like three or four times so I'm trying to be better about that so yeah so I'm gonna say this is the end of day six because I'm gonna do a little bit of reading and I won't go to bed and so that's gonna be the end of this vlog and so everything else will be in the next video so stay tuned for that feel free to like comment subscribe continue following me on this journey of the reading rush but also different genres every month and then next year I will have a little bit more of a normal reading type year where I will mostly read genres that I like yeah so with that I'm gonna wish you guys a happy reading