Waking up this morning was rough. I was not a fan. I like sleep and
it was definitely lacking last night.
At work today I had so little to do. I went up to see if the
resource teacher had anything she needed cut out and she did but only
one game. So I copied it onto card stock and then cut out all the
cards. It didn't take me very long. Another little project was
scanning transcripts for one of the fourth grade teachers so she
could mail them to one of the jobs she is applying for. That also
didn't take very long. Second grade reading groups went well today.
My first group only had three kids which was very manageable, and my
second group was pretty independent so I ended up playing a game with
my first group. After lunch I helped a student intern (who worked at
the theater until recently so I've known her since she was sixteen)
get Skype working on her iPad, helped one of the kindergarten
teachers get her iPad hooked up to her projector, and went to the
third grade music recital. The theme was animals who didn't make the
right animal sound and a doctor trying to fix that. The doctor was
played by a girl who had a few different solos and she was
surprisingly good. Surprising because she tends to be quiet and
reserved. Overall it was one of the best assemblies all year.
I actually spent a lot of my day listening to podcasts and on
Dafont.com, downloading fonts. I think I ended up just shy of
seventy fonts. That's a whole bunch.
After school I went to Chipotle and then should have taken a nap but
I didn't. I planned on just going to bed early, but around eight
o'clock I remembered that I was going to pick up popcorn tonight.
And we have a late show so I can't pick it up until 11:15PM. Not
fair. I just want sleep.
My mom missed Chipotle night even though my sister waiting until
seven o'clock, because she was supposed to be home by six or
six-thirty. Instead my sister and I ate and watched YouTube videos.
My mom ended up not getting back until almost 7:45PM. Just a lot
late. She missed out though because I had some good videos this
week. My sister brought over these peanut butter cookies that she
referred to as rejects, because she made them and wasn't happy and
ended up making a different kind. Then she tried to salvage the
first ones by dipping half of each cookie in chocolate. I really
liked them. They were kind of bland but I like bland stuff. Often
times peanut butter cookies are too rich but these weren't. They
were also incredibly airy or fluffy even, not dense like cookies tend
to be. The chocolate added a whole other layer to the mix. I would
like them plain, completely covered in chocolate, or just half
covered. They were really good.
I didn't have a visit with the new volunteer kid because apparently
he is in a bit of trouble. There was a court hearing today but I
didn't go because I didn't find out it was scheduled for this morning
until this afternoon. But at the court hearing my supervisor found
out that the kid was put into a PRTF (which I think means Psychiatric
Residential Treatment Facility) on Tuesday after he tested positive
for alcohol and several drugs. Yeah. I tried calling the foster dad
three times tonight but couldn't reach him so I'm still not exactly
sure what happened. Right when I thought this case was becoming a
boring cakewalk. It really is sad but also probably not that
surprising. A few months ago he got a warning for getting drunk.
And lately with his new job he's been missing a lot of school. And
the town he currently lives in doesn't have the best drug reputation.
My old volunteer kid told me he had been in foster care there for
awhile and didn't want to go back because he couldn't go to the park
without people asking him if he wanted drugs. This still sucks
though. He's a smart kid but he's still a kid. I would imagine he's
probably lost his job now, too.
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