April 8, 2013

I keep meaning to write the interesting things I have recently read but the mood has not struck me. I've talked about them in my daily recordings but it is a lot easier to read a passage than it is to type it up. But I still plan to write about them. Eventually. Or I'll wait too long and forget about it.

It ended up not hailing last night so I didn't really need to park my car in the garage over at my sister's but better safe than sorry. I might end up parking over there again tomorrow night because we are supposed to get a decent storm including hail on Tuesday night.

This morning when I walked into work one of the receptionists asked if I wanted to try some baked kale. She had a painting restorer staying at her house over the weekend and she was a vegan so the receptionist had been introduced to some new foods. I think she was trying to get rid of the baked kale. It actually wasn't awful but it wasn't that good either. It tasted like I was eating foliage.

Shortly after that I was in the principals office to pick up assessment tickets and she had one of the second graders in there from my reading group. She basically chewed him a new one because over the weekend him and one of the other kids in his class climbed up onto the roof of the school. They got up there by putting a trash can and probably something else on top of a picnic table. They were discovered by one of the fourth grade teachers who was in her room on the third floor. They both got in-school suspension and lost recess for the week. A small price to pay for something that could have ended in horrible injury or death.

State assessments have started again and this morning one of the fifth grades classes took the first part of their Math assessment. Several of them came into the lab vigorously stroking their pencils in a somewhat inappropriate manner. None of them were giggling though which told me they didn't get the suggestive part of their actions and they weren't doing it to be inappropriate. It turns out their teacher had given them color changing pencils, similar to a mood ring, and the kids stroking their pencils were trying to make the pencils hotter in order to change the color.

This afternoon one of first grade teachers was telling me that she ate lunch with her class on Friday in the lunchroom. One of the little boys told her he was going to eat his fruit like a white person and then started to eat it with his fork. She then asked him how black people eat fruit if white people eat it with a fork. Then the little boy changed his mind and decided he was going to eat the fruit like a rich white person. So he stuck his pinky finger out. I wish I had been there when he was told or figured out how white people eat fruit.

Also this afternoon, a fourth grade class was coming into the lab immediately after the other first grade class. The last few first graders were engaged in some random conversation that had them turned away from the door, so they missed the rest of their class leaving. The fourth grade teacher is a bit of an authoritarian and she was waiting on these kids to leave the lab so she could come in. She didn't know the kid in front with his back to the door so she just called out “Hey, blue shirt. Come on.” It was hilarious. It reminded of me of a comedian (who I can't remember) who has a bit where black guys call out to girls on the street by referencing their clothes.

My favorite substitute was subbing today so I got to talk to her for quite awhile when she brought her class to the lab at the end of the day. We talked about a whole bunch of random stuff and were laughing through most of it. At one point my para frame came in and the sub hijacked her for awhile into our conversation. The topic of our unpaid chair job after assemblies came up so I printed off the letter I wrote to Obama for the sub to read and I have never seen her laugh so hard.

After work I didn't do much until dinner. And I didn't do much for dinner other than eating food, which is what I tend to do at dinner. So yeah. After dinner I watched DVRed stuff from last week and worked on the interior of my Minecraft TARDIS. More specifically, the false night sky above the swimming pool. I haven't worked on that in forever, mostly because it is incredibly tedious, but I think I have finally made it past the halfway mark. I might finish it at some point. So far the only room I have finished in the TARDIS, other than the control room, is the library, the most important room in my opinion. I still have two more doors leading off the control room that have no hallways attached. I want one to lead to bedrooms but I'm not sure about the last one. At one point I thought about making a meadow. I really need to put more time into it.