May 20, 2013

Today happened. And now I am tired. So let's do this.

I am still waiting for the reading scores from one of the kindergarten teachers so I can finish my note card labels. I did play with the format for all of them today, so they will look pretty sweet when I eventually get to print them out. I also started going through and putting the finishing touches on my MAP score spreadsheets. I have all the scores but I didn't do all the changes from Winter testing, to show how far a kid went up or down. I'll be able to finish that tomorrow. And hopefully the note card labels.

And at that point I will have nothing left to do this school year. Which will make the last few days boring. Although I may have the opportunity to actually put my note card labels onto note card, which would take up at least an hour or two of my day.

We had a band concert this afternoon and that brought back a lot of elementary school band memories. I even remembered playing some of the songs they played. And nothing against the kids, but I remember those songs being tough, which they are not. On a different band topic, there were a decent number of kids in the fifth grade band but only seven or so in the sixth grade band. And the orchestra had maybe six fifth graders, but only one sixth grader. And the grades are separated so with the orchestra, the fifth graders played their selection of songs, and then the sixth grader basically gave a solo performance, accompanied by the teacher on keyboard. So that was interesting.

After the performance I helped put the chairs away. My para friend helped and came up to me after saying that she had received her first injury from putting chairs away because she pinched her hand. I joked about how we had yet to be compensated for our extra work when it comes to putting chairs away so now she had decided to go for worker's comp. instead. As we walked back to our respective places in the building we kept talking about it and decided the injury was probably going to get progressively worse, to the point she would be in a wheelchair by tomorrow. Hilarious stuff.

After work I fixed the kitchen sink, after briefly fixing it, and then full-on breaking it. The aerator (which is a thing apparently) had broken a little bit so I glued it back together. This worked fine for a few seconds but then I tightened it too far and it came apart completely. A trip to Home Depot did the trick and now everything is back to normal. It seems like it might be coming out a little slower, maybe too much aeration, but soon enough it will become normal.

After dinner I went up to the cemetery with my mom to replace the flowers on my grandparents headstone. She normally puts fake flowers into the two vases but the last time she went up she put in real flowers. So we replaced those with some nice fake ones because they last longer and they look just as good. For awhile they were disappearing or showing up on headstones nearby. I figured that maybe the wind was blowing them out because they were so light, and then either blew away or people that worked there didn't know where they went so just put them on the nearest headstones. So I came up with the idea to tie lug nuts to them to keep them weighted down in the vases. And this has ended up working. And it turns out, I still know how to tie the knot used to tie fishing hooks onto fishing line. Or at least the knot that I think I may have at one point used to tie fishing hooks onto fishing line. Either way, the knot works.

Tonight I didn't really do anything. The same old thing. YouTube videos, internet stuff, and a little DVR. And now sleep. If my throat will stop itching long enough for me to actually fall asleep. Fingers crossed.