August 15, 2013

I need to get back into my morning exercise routine. But sleeping until 6:45AM is way better than getting up at 6:00AM. Maybe next week.

Today was the first full day of school and it was a pretty productive day for me. I added in the new teachers to Odyssey and then moved all the kids into the right classes and put in transfer requests for the new kids or created profiles for the ones coming from out of the district. That took awhile. Especially for the two Kindergarten classes because I had to type in all the information for each kid. And waiting for the transfers to go through was annoying. But I got it all done. Not that it really matters because the student logins are messed up at the moment and probably won't be fixed until this weekend. And the kids can't get on the computer anymore without logging in. I get it but that is still frustrating. Especially because I'm going to have to log in the kindergarteners before I log them into Odyssey, when they advance to using Odyssey. I know that teachers and staff can log into six different computer or devices and if kids get the same number I might just memorize a few kindergarten numbers and use them over and over.

Interspersed throughout the day I helped the librarian with random things like getting the student interns connected to the internet using guest accounts. I also took a couple pictures of kids with food allergies because the nurse wanted them. I don't know if they are for her records or if she wants to give them to the lunch lady so she knows who shouldn't be eating what. But that was pretty much my day.

I had the realization today that even though I went around and put desktop shortcuts on all the computers in the lab, that they might not show up on the desktop when kids log in as different users. Which kind of sucks. So tomorrow I am going to mess around with that and see what I can come up with. There is apparently a way put the icons on every desktop in XP using a public desktop folder but I guess that doesn't exist in Win7 Pro, so I don't know. It might come down to putting a folder on the shared drive with all the icons and either having the kids move it to their desktop the first time they log in, or go through and log in as each kid and arrange the icons myself. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.

Tonight I had the second half of my Chipotle burrito and it was pretty good but I am still thinking about switching to Jimmy John's for awhile. Just to bring the novelty back to Chipotle. After dinner I went and visited the new volunteer kid for about forty-five minutes. He was a little distracted because he was annoyed with his foster dad. His bedtime was ten o'clock and he went to bed but he got up at 10:30PM to get something to drink and that was when his foster dad came home, who saw the kid up and thought he hadn't gone to bed. So now his bedtime is 9:30PM. I would gladly accept a 9:30PM bedtime, but I'm not a teenager. A lot of teenagers don't know how to pick their battles. A bedtime is not a battle to get involved with. In fact most things aren't worth getting in a battle over. Enjoy being a teenager, suck up all the annoying things about your parents for a few years, and then go off and be an adult and do your own thing. Anyway, we went to Sonic as usual and they weren't serving food, only drinks and ice cream, because they had a grease fire right before we got there and it messed up the grill. We usually only get drinks so that wasn't a big deal. He got a raspberry cherry slush and I got an orange watermelon limeade. Both were awful. With his the slushy was mostly melted and there was way too much syrup, so it was basically just like drinking cold syrup. And mine was just gross. Orange is usually not a good flavor outside of juice, soda, certain candies, and the fruit itself. So I guess it is mainly just not a good flavor when it comes to Sonic drinks and Dairy Queen slushies. And watermelon usually isn't a great Sonic flavor either. And for some reason I decided to put both of them into the same drink. It was way too sweet and just not that palatable. The kid didn't drink much of his slush and I didn't make it anywhere close to halfway on my drink. Lesson learned.

When I got home I watched some YouTube videos, clicked around the internet, listened to some music, and wrote this. Not very productive. During my lunch break today I looked into the Library Science program at the University of Denver. I want to apply there. I was thinking about doing online graduate school because I could still work at the school, like several of the teachers who are getting graduate degrees, but if I could live in Colorado, I want to live in Colorado. And when you actually go to a university there is the chance of being a TA and getting tuition covered or better internship opportunities. Or if I joined the NAVY and went to whatever college that is they not only pay for it but pay you a monthly allowance basically, and you're guaranteed a job for at least the first four years after you graduate. I just need to take the leap and pull the trigger and all those other metaphors.