March 29, 2013

I am fairly certain I slept through the night last night, only waking up once, and that was twenty minutes before my alarm went off. Even when I don't fully wake up during the night I usually remember kind of waking up to switch positions or something. None of that last night. I would say it was nice, and it may have been, but it makes the night go by a lot faster when you sleep through the whole thing.

The sixth grade teacher is leaving. Not really a loss because no one seems to like her that much. Mainly because she often dresses inappropriately and lets her class have the run of the school. But she's leaving to be a science teacher at one of the middle schools next year. The school learned this through a very poorly written email she sent out this morning. Not so much poorly written as just one big paragraph that had no respect for the tense of words. She started off mentioning that there was a job opening and that she was thinking about applying for it. And in the next sentence she had an interview and was leaving it up to God. Right after that she didn't know if she should take the job even if it was offered. But almost immediately it was offered to her and she took the job. It is hard for me to actually convey how weird the email was, as if she wrote one sentence every couple of days. Regardless, she is leaving.

My favorite substitute was in the building today but I only saw her briefly this morning when she popped her head in the lab and told me she had an Amish girl she thought I would like. Completely random and out of nowhere but also funny.

My second grade reading group is dropping like flies. Another kid was gone today so the group was down to just two kids. Which I guess makes it less of a group and more of a pair. I actually think the group was more productive when there were three of them, which is weird.

This afternoon I went to one of the first grade rooms because the teacher couldn't get the ELMO to work. None of the buttons seemed to be responding, including the power button, so I turned it on and off again by just unplugging it. And it worked. It really is amazing how many technological problems can be solved by turning something off and back on again. Anyway, the class ended up coming to the lab for the regular time about ten minutes later and the teacher said her class thought I was really nice for coming all the way to their room to fix their projector and several of them came up and thanked me. It was pretty cute.

I came up with a layout for class pages for the yearbook today and then put in all the pictures and typed in each kid's name. In between all the other random things I had going on today I just managed to finish that. I'm not even sure if any of my work is serving a point though. The principal and one of the receptionists have differing views on how the yearbook should be handled. The receptionist thought they came to an understanding but then the principal ended up saying that the same parent who did it last year could do it this year and the receptionist was apparently not a fan of her last time and it didn't take her long for her to fall out with her again. So the receptionist is having me do all this yearbook stuff. And I'm doing it not because I think I am actually designing the yearbook but because I have nothing better to do with my time and it is keeping me busy. I had an influx of work to do the day after I sent my email requesting extra work but it has since tapered off, leaving me the time to mess around with a potentially fictional yearbook.

I asked my para friend if she wanted her full name or the shortened version that she actually goes by. She went with the shortened version, with an 'i', because she didn't want to be too formal. She also mentioned that we should get a picture of us by the chair rack, as proof that we always get stuck with the chairs and that we don't get paid enough to do that. She suggested we hold a bunch of dollar bills and I thought we should also make it rain. I don't know that it would be included in the yearbook but if my potentially fictional yearbook is in fact non-fiction, I could probably sneak it in.

Full-sized carrots are still amazing.

Tonight at work I read and watched G.I. Joe: Retaliation. It was not a great movie. There was action but it was more often than not, less than jaw-dropping. It just didn't seem real, and that sounds a little ridiculous obviously, and it's hard to describe, but it just didn't do it for me. There was also not enough comic relief. They tried a few times but for the most part it was a failed effort. It wasn't necessarily a bad movie but I think I would have been annoyed if I had paid however much for a ticket. It could also be due to my expectations. I never watched the first movie but based on the trailers I imagined it to be at least kind of cheesy with some good comic relief. That is what I was expecting from this movie and they definitely wanted to go the serious route. It wasn't for me.

I was going to record my day when I got home from work (I recorded my yesterday before work) but I didn't really feel like talking when I got home. I just wanted to write this and then go to bed because I have been tired for the last three hours or so and I have to open in the morning. But it's not really the morning because I don't have to be there until almost noon. That used to feel kind of early when I was just working at the theater but now that is after the time I usually eat lunch. It will be weird opening though because it has been a long time since I've done that. I might have time to record my day before I go to work and then record my tomorrow, after work. Or just knock them both out after work. I would like to get to the point where I record my day, on the day, because it would be easier just to ramble on about it when it is still fresh in my memory rather than trying to skim and summarize my journal entry while I'm recording. I'll get it figured out eventually.