Tuesday, February 25, 2014

February 25, 2014

The tech guy came to work on the two broken computers in the lab today. Turned out to be a bust and he had to take both of them with him. And I got to help him carry them out to his car. I am actually somewhat surprised at how “quickly” someone came but who knows how long it will be now before we get them back. Probably not before testing starts.

I inched every closer to finishing the storybook I am currently on. I finished two or three pages today. They got a lot faster when I just have to put some text down and erase around a few objects. I'm definitely getting there. And I need to finish it up so I can move onto other things. Soon enough testing will become an all-consuming thing. And I need to look into the yearbook website. The PTO mom I'm working with sent me a link (and stopped by to talk after school today) but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. She makes it sound like it is pretty simple so fingers crossed for that.

Both kindergarten classes were in the lab today and my like of one class over the other was confirmed, for about the millionth time. They are just so much better behaved, and when they're not the teacher actually does something about it. It could also be a small number of kids just bringing everyone down in the other class. Two in particular are just annoying as hell. Especially the one who just doesn't have any redeeming qualities. Hopefully she grows out of it but I'm pretty confident that is impossible.

I fixed one of the second grade teacher's laptops today. First by reinstalling a printer which had randomly renamed itself to something weird and was then taking ages to print. I also reset her trackpad because it was acting incredibly weird. But now she's all set. At least for today.

I was talking to the other second grade teacher when her class was in the lab this afternoon and we covered random topics. Including how nice it would be to live Amish-style, with a minimalist wardrobe and other distractions. I also learned that her older sister is apparently “the nice one.” This was an absurd statement and hard to really believe because this teacher is probably this nicest person I have ever met. She is always smiling or laughing and you can never really get to her commit to saying something bad. I made the comparison to Fred Claus, the teacher being Vince Vaughn and her sister being Paul Giamatti, and she said that was exactly right. I kind of want to meet this sister now because I'm picturing a Disney character.

Tonight I didn't do much of anything. Watched YouTube videos, messed around with my Powerball spreadsheet for a little bit, read stuff, and listened to music. I need to get back on the future train and working on doing something with my life. That would be good.

I've been looking forward to laying down in my bed all day so I'm going to go do that now. But I will leave you with a brief conversation between a kindergartner and her teacher after sitting down for some one-on-one reading.

Kindergartener: “My mom said these are baby books.”

Teacher: “Well, let's see how you do with a 'baby book'. We'll start War And Peace tomorrow.

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