March 26, 2013

I want the motivation to be passionately artistic and creative on a daily basis.

My main accomplishment for the day was probably adding the four new siblings into Odyssey and my student directory. That took me all of fifteen minutes. Felt pretty good about myself.

We had an assembly today which inevitably led to my para friend and I putting chairs away at the end. It went a step further today and we also had to put the chair rack back in the closet area where it is usually stored. That was a challenge because with all the chairs on it, the rack is really heavy, and it was difficult getting the rack over the lip leading into the closet. But we did it and no one got hurt.

On the walk down the hall to our respective areas in the school my para friend told some kids who were messing with a ball to get wherever they needed to be. I called her a killjoy, she said she does her best to take all the fun out of school, and I told her she would be a great educator. It was kind of funny.

I asked one of the kindergarten teachers if he had anything that needed to be done and he didn't have anything school related but he did have a side project. He runs a daycare after school and during the summer and he wants to compete with one of the other elementary schools so he wanted me to call and find out what their prices were because they know who he is so he didn't want to call. I tried a couple times throughout the day but the lady I needed to talk to wasn't there so I gave up. I made an effort though.

I had two classes that didn't show up today so I ended up sending out another email looking for work. I sent one out earlier in the year trying to fill out my schedule and that lead to literacy centers with kindergarten and second grade, and giving a spelling test to second graders twice a week. But I still have a lot of random spots throughout the day, especially when classes don't show up. So I sent out an email looking for random jobs. I got one from the secretary to either prepare class pictures for the year book or to actually do the yearbook layout for the classes. And one of the second grade teachers had a question about iPads. And one of the kindergarteners sent a nice email that also poked fun at the old computer aide and said the principal should give me a raise (and he CCed the email to the principal so it was pretty funny).

Tonight I did a whole lot of nothing. I discovered that my left forearm is more hurt than I thought because I couldn't hold my giant pan of spaghetti sauce with my left hand to poor over the pasta. Well, I could hold it in my hand but I couldn't lift it. When I tried to hold it over the pasta it wouldn't stay up. It was kind of freaky. My arm was already a little worn out from video games and typing every day and then shoveling snow this weekend did not help in the least. I can't really take a break from the typing thing because I work in a computer lab and I type about my life every day. I won't be touching my Xbox for awhile though. I can probably handle some Anno 2070 or another game that is primarily mouse-based. Although my right hand could probably use a break too so maybe just a break from video games. We'll see how that goes.