We've made it to May, but the weather didn't get the memo. It was
over ninety degrees on Monday, somewhere in the eighties yesterday,
cooler today, and it is supposed to snow tomorrow. Lovely. Although
as stated before, I prefer cooler weather.
Yesterday I scanned a car registration for one of the paras and today
I scanned a bunch of grad school homework for one of the teachers
because her scanner at home wasn't working and she needed to send it
to her professor. I have become quite adept at scanning stuff and
turning it into PDFs. I am glad I figured that out awhile ago when
archiving the letters my friend and I exchange.
We had a MAP test this morning, I helped fifth graders with Excel
graphs, I had my second grade reading group, and I continued work on
my recent project to collect the various test scores for all
students. My second grade reading group was just as annoying as I
remember. And it feels like forever since I've had them, probably
over a week, but they really haven't made any progress in the book
because I think they have only read once since I last saw them. And
they weren't very motivated today. Much like every other day.
Trying to get kids to focus on something they're not into, right
before lunch, is not an easy task.
With the various test score collecting thing I was originally
thinking of using Access and creating a report to make the labels.
Now I have switched to a combination of Excel and Word. I can
collect all the scores in Excel and then merge that data with Word
and it will create the label for me. I still need to mess around
with it some more to get the settings right but my brief test today
looked promising. It is still exhausting staring at spreadsheets for
hours. I think part of it has to do with reduced blinking.
The best part of my day was a “local” production of Frog And
Toad. It originated in a
theater in a nearby town and one of the kindergarten teachers set it
up because his cousin was playing Frog. And I recognized Toad
because he has lived in town for years since he came here to get his
Masters degree. It was a very simple production but also really
funny. I wanted an encore performance and I think the kids would
have been into it too because they were laughing throughout the whole
show. I really enjoyed it.
My para friend ended up getting into
a conversation with my mom after the performance and didn't help put
a single chair away but she did feel a little bad about not helping
so I gave her a lot of crap about it. Luckily for me there was a lot
of child labor today. I think I only ended up putting away six or
seven chairs. Definitely not earning my keep.
After work and went and got Chipotle
and Jimmy John's for dinner. I didn't think I was in the mood for
Chipotle but it ended up being delicious. I showed some videos and
pictures to my mom and sister and then sat around awhile and talked.
My Kindle and mic stand showed up
tonight. I didn't open the Kindle and gave it to my mom so she can
wrap it for my birthday. That was hard but I only have to wait a
little while longer. I did open up my mic stand and got that figured
out. I think it will work. We'll see. I'm not actually going to
record my day today however because I ended up talking with my friend
on the phone for quite awhile tonight. Just a bunch a random stuff.
It was pretty great.
I have decided to ease back into my
phone use by turning my phone on after dinner every night. And then
back off when I go to bed. I don't really want to do that much but I
am getting a lot of crap from my friends and family. I also took the
case off my phone because I feel like it is on its last legs and I
wanted to experience my phone for a little while in the way it was
meant to be experienced. It is such a small, good looking phone, and
I had completely forgotten about that. I'll probably drop it and
break it tomorrow.
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