Last night I had an interesting dream. It took place in a quaint
village that was also a theme park. Each house in the village had a
different theme. In one house, there was a small entryway with a
door leading into another room. On the door was a sign that said
“Little girls must have an appetite to enter here.” And the
theme of that room is Alice In Wonderland
where he the “eat me” and “drink me” stuff to make her bigger
and smaller. I am a bit biased but I thought that was pretty clever
of my sleeping brain.
This morning before work I went to
vote in some local elections and the lady taking me over to the
voting machine asked me how I was doing. I said “pretty good”
but she thought I said “pretty and good.” She responded “Really?
Pretty and good? At the same time?” I went with it and simply
replied “most days.” It was hilarious and throughout the day
when it came to mind a smile would come to my face.
My second-grade reading group was
pretty awful today. We normally sit in the hallway outside the
computer lab but today I wanted to start in the lab. They had to
list all the kids in their class, putting them into columns for
whether or not they had freckles. I have all the class photos for
the yearbook so I figured I would click through them so they could
see each kid. It took at least five minutes to get them over to my
computer. They were too busy trying to find a place to sit in the
lab and fighting over chairs. Completely ignoring my repeated
attempts to explain that we weren't working in the lab and that I
wanted them to come over to my computer. It was incredibly
frustrating.
We eventually got that done and made
it out into the hall and they didn't get any better. I wanted them
to read chapter three of the book because one of the kids hadn't read
it yet and we were supposed to answer questions about it so I figured
it would be a good refresher for everyone. The one kid who needed to
read the chapter wasn't very engaged or paying attention and the
other three were constantly distracted. It may have been the longest
thirty minutes of my life.
Including my lunch break I had about
two and a half hours this afternoon with absolutely nothing to do and
it was boring as hell. I ended up messing around with editing a
picture of the front of the building that I took awhile ago and
making a really crappy looking yearbook cover. I had nothing better
to do.
This morning I asked the principal
if she had any jobs for me and after my two and a half hours of
nothing, she emailed me three minutes before a class was scheduled to
come to the lab. Amazing timing. But work is work. She is
recommending a bunch of kids go to summer school based on MAP scores
and other stuff and she wanted to personalize the letter to the
parents with their kid's scores. So she gave me the list of kids, I
typed it up, and then put in their scores. I thought about drawing
out the work a little bit just so I would have something to do
tomorrow but I was able to get it done by the end of the day. I
think tomorrow I might either put the scores into the letters or put
the letters into the envelopes or something. I don't know. But
hopefully it will be something.
Tonight I once again had the
incredible urge to do something with the exact opposite amount of
motivation to do anything. I just couldn't talk myself into
anything. Which was surprisingly exhausting. I just want to sleep.
Apparently more than I want to accomplish something with my time
outside of work. That sucks.
On a positive note, I have been
keeping up with recording my days with my microphone. It is getting
easier to do. Actually easier than writing about my day because I
just have to ramble and not form complete sentences, but I am going
to continue writing because I like writing. Most days, anyway.
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