March 27, 2013

Ask and you shall receive. My email was a success and all of my downtime was filled today. Mostly by one of the second grade teachers. She had me copy a bunch of stuff, laminate half of it, and cut it all out. A bunch of small circles, partial circles, and triangles. It took awhile but it kept me busy. I also graded some papers for her. I didn't mind the multiple choice part but the two short answer questions were a little harder. There is too much wiggle room with short answer questions. They were worth two points each and most of the kids only got a point for each, and that was me being generous. One of the questions asked if bees would make good pets. The best answer by far was: “no because Bees have Stingers so they Sting Poelop and Bees make honey and Bears like honey So Bears will attak your house.” Brilliant.

I also started work on cataloging student pictures for the yearbook. I got all the kids divided into class folders and tomorrow I should be able to start renaming all of them to the student's name rather than their student number. That is going to take awhile because I don't know every kid's full name. I'll get it done eventually.

Tonight was Chipotle night and my burrito was pretty good. For awhile I was getting sour cream and cheese but for the past several weeks I cut back to just cheese. This week I cut out the cheese as well and I think I will probably keep it that way. Unless I have a cheese craving. I feel way better after eating my half of a burrito when it doesn't have cheese or sour cream on it. And not just because it doesn't upset my stomach.

I was supposed to have book club tonight but it was moved to next week. Turns out I didn't need to rush through the book in two days. But I'm glad I finished it and I doubt I forget much of it by next week. It will still be better than the month or so delay before the last book club.

The lack of book club left my night open so I did a lot of not much. I designed a t-shirt for a contest that I have very little chance of winning but I am happy with my design. It starts out with a bunch of Braille and then underneath that it says “You can read my shirt with your fingers.” The idea being you will read that and then figure out the Braille, which says “Just because you can does not mean you should. How dare you.” I think it's pretty clever.

My microphone arrived today but I still don't have the balls to actually start talking about my day. It just feels weird talking to myself. That was one of my big hiccups when I was taking Latin in high school. I had to record myself speaking passages and then mail it off to the teacher. It was incredibly uncomfortable to do and I felt embarrassed even though I was in a room by myself while I did it. It didn't help that no one really knows how Latin is supposed to sound, as far as I know, so I was being graded on bullshit. At least that is how I saw it. Mainly because I didn't like having to record myself talking. But now I have a microphone for the express purpose of recording myself talk about my day. I think part of me wants to overcome that fear and stop feeling so self-conscious about the whole thing. I'll get there. Or I'll just use the microphone to record guitar riffs.