Nothing too out of the ordinary today. I once again had a lot of
free time at work and had an opportunity to actually do work about
thirty minutes before I had classes coming to the lab. I have all
sorts of free time in the morning and then classes in the afternoon.
But every time I try to find extra work it always ends up happening
in the afternoon when I have classes. Kind of a pain.
My extra work today was helping the principal and the Boys &
Girls club lady proofread a letter to parents about summer school and
then folding the letter and other stuff up and putting them in
envelopes. Due to the timing of this I only got to fold however many
things before having to head back to the lab but it was nice to feel
a little productive for a bit. It was certainly better than making a
pixel flower in Excel.
I was reminded today of how funny two consecutive P's can be to
second grade boys. In my reading group we were working on a word
search, one boy found the word 'appendicitis' and when he was showing
one of the other boys where to find it, he was spelling it out loud.
He had already cracked a smile by the first P and they both
completely lost it by the second one. Sometimes the best laughs come
from the simplest things. It is hard to get any more simple than
letters in the alphabet.
I actually had my visit with the new volunteer kid tonight. The
first one in three weeks. It only lasted thirty minutes and it was
fairly uneventful. He gave me the order form he printed off for his
ring so now I need to get that to my supervisor and figure out how to
go about paying for it. She got the money but the form looks like
the only accept credit cards so I don't know if we'll have to put it
onto one of those prepaid cards or what. It also seems way more
expensive than the one I remember us putting together several weeks
ago. We'll get it sorted out though. Or we won't.
When I got home from the visit I hung out for a bit and then I went
over to my friend's house to hang out and finally give her the
birthday present I made her. It was really nice being able to hang
out and just talk with her. It is always far too long in between
getting together with her. Generally months. It is like that with
my friends who live out of town as well, which is unfortunate. I
like hanging out with my friends. That is why I am friends with
them. But I don't get to do that enough. I either need to work on
that or add more friends to the rotation. I'm not the best at making
new friends though so I should probably just work with the ones I
have. Anyway, tonight was good times. We kind of watched an episode
of Psych but really we just
talked for about four hours. About everything and anything, jumping
from one random topic to the next. Those are the best conversations.
I feel like I could write more about
my time with my friend but it is now three hours past my normal
bedtime. So I am going to go to bed now. I didn't get around to
recording my day verbally but I figure I can do that after school
tomorrow because I will probably be postponing my talk about tomorrow
until Saturday and then Saturday's until Sunday because of my closing
shifts at the theater. Unless I am in the mood to talk when I get
home from those. But that is something I can worry about when the
time comes. Now I need to sleep. And hope that five hours from now
I am coming out of a REM cycle so I wake up ready for the day and not
feeling like I got too little sleep.
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