December 9, 2013

I slept late this morning and kinda felt tired all day. I'm ready for Christmas break. I want to sleep more at night. And take more naps during the day.

At work today I spent most of my time scanning storybooks. I've got four and a half to go. And then there will be all the editing. The majority of the books at this point have mostly white pages so there is going to be a lot of editing. Fun. I will be happy to see the final product when I am done with all of them. Whenever that may be.

The teacher was out of the room again today doing DIBELS testing so second grade reading groups weren't really a thing today. They were reading a story about different animals as a class when I got there and then I helped out with a worksheet about 'er', 'ir', and 'ur' words. There was a sentence and the kids had to fill in the blank with the correct word, without that help of a word bank. Most of the kids were able to get most of the words, some with a little extra hinting. The word I had to give all of the kids I helped was 'churn'. The sentence was something like “What you do to milk or cream to get butter”. None of the kids had heard the word let alone had any idea what it meant. And it took me about thirty seconds to bring it up in my memory, which lead to a brief moment of panic.

One of the sixth grade teachers is starting the Stock Market Game and asked if I would be able to help him teach the kids how to set up an Excel spreadsheet using formulas to track their stocks. He gave me a printed example of what he wanted and I was able to knockout an Excel version pretty quick using basic formulas.

And that was pretty much my workday. When I got home I did a whole lot of nothing. I always have big plans of what I can get done but then I get home and lose all motivation to do anything. I really just wanted to take a nap. Which I didn't do, so I just kind of zoned out. For dinner I made a version of taco salad with rice, fake hamburger, a can of diced tomatoes, and tater tots. I forgot to spray the inside of my rice cooker so the bottom had rice cooked to it. PAM cooking spray is a miracle worker when it comes to rice cookers. All the rice just slides right out.

After dinner I eventually got around to playing a bit of Skyrim. I didn't really make that much progress, spending most of the hour I played just trying to get to my next objective which was all the way across the map. Dying several times along the way. Then I got distracted by a vampire lair so I went through there and killed all of them and only just made it to my objective before deciding to call it a night. I'll be good to go the next time I play.

Now I'm going to go to bed. I have typed a lot of this entry with my eyes closed. I should have gone to sleep an hour ago. Maybe two.