January 13, 2014

The first day of MAP testing went off without a hitch. It was a pretty easy start with only one test in the morning so my schedule wasn't thrown off too much. Tomorrow there are three tests so that is going to suck some balls. So boring.

After the test this morning I went down and helped with literacy centers in Kindergarten. My group only had two kids so it was pretty easy. They were much better behaved than my second grade reading groups which I had right after. I got stuck with the listening center twice in a row so I had to hear the same story four times, while simultaneously babysitting the kids who were supposed to be listening to the story. It was rough. And the story was good but it got old after the second time I heard it.

This afternoon I had a couple classes in the lab. I recently installed Type To Learn 4 and for some reason it is much more popular than the old version was last year. I think it was mostly used by fourth and fifth grade last year, occasionally by third grade. This year the first and second graders have also started using it. Or at least expressed interest in using it. That is pretty cool. Even though it seems like being able to type on a physical keyboard with your fingers on the home row will soon be a dying art.

In my downtime today I made a lot of progress on storybooks. I finished four or five pages. It is still taking me forever but I'm chipping away at it. Slowly but surely.

After school I watched the third, and last, episode of the third series of Sherlock. The series has been so long in coming and now it is over. Just like that. It was a good episode, though not on par with the second episode, and of course it ended with a cliffhanger. Goddamn cliffhangers. And now the long ass wait begins for the next series.

Tonight I played more Battlefield 4. I ended up in a server that had a guy bitching about his team in the chat every game. Then he switched to our team when we started beating them every time. And then he bitched about our team. He had a really good K/D every game but his blood pressure must be through the roof. And speaking of roofs, in the last game I played he maybe capped one point and then spent the rest of the game shooting people from the roof. We lost the game and he was going off in the chat again about our team not doing this and that. After which I just typed “Says the guy on the roof” and logged off. Nailed it.

It isn't even 9:30PM yet but I am going to go to bed now. I slept horribly last night. It was one of those nights where I woke up about every half hour or so. Not a very restful sleep and that has been slowly catching up to me. So I am going to hit the hay.