April 24, 2014

This morning we had one scheduled test and then a make-up session that was utilized by kids from both of the fourth grade classes. That lasted most of the morning. With my remaining time before lunch I worked on editing pictures. I think. I can't really remember.

This afternoon there was a MAP test right after lunch and then I had the last couple of hours in the day to work on yearbook stuff. After the test I went to check if the second kindergarten class was coming to the lab. It turns out they weren't but I got to see the last five minutes of the original Lorax movie. With my new-found free time, I borrow the one kindergartener who I didn't have a picture of, and got her picture for the yearbook. I told her to smile big and got a very small smile. I tried again and got even less of a smile so I called it good. I also went and got the missing fourth grader, and eventually got the new sixth grader. With all of those taken I was able to edit them and get them in the yearbook. They actually don't look too bad. I also finished making all the edits that teacher's caught. There were several more misspellings than last year when I typed all the names in myself. Go figure. A good reason why trusting technology is not always wise. Or trusting whoever at Lifetouch typed all the names into their database.

I also scanned and edited a few more sixth grade baby pictures. Tomorrow or sometime I need to make the slide for that student as well as edit and make the slides for a couple other students who's pictures I have in my email. But that was pretty much my day. Testing and yearbook stuff.

Tonight was Chipotle night, which was delicious, and the YouTube videos I showed went over well. Then I went and had a visit with the new volunteer kid. A whole forty-five minute visit. I can't even remember the last visit we had. It's been awhile. We went to McDonald's for most of the visit and talked about his future. He plans on graduating at semester next December, getting out of the system, moving to the town where he currently goes to high school (maybe), and go to a vo-tech school to learn welding. He would prefer to get a job working on cars but he would take whatever job he could get. He definitely sounds like he has a plan but I think things will be slightly more difficult than he thinks. Mostly the getting out of the system part and being on his own thing. But he still has a lot of time to figure things out and hopefully I can help him.

When I got home I watched YouTube videos, very briefly played Tera, and looked a pictures of cool bookcases and libraries. I also made a few edits to the yearbook candid pages. Really I would like to tweak the layout of each of the candid pages because there really isn't any cohesion to them. Some pages have pictures at different angles with pictures overlapping, while other pages just have all straight pictures with spaces between all the pictures. It is kind of annoying. I moved a few pictures around, and added a picture to one of the staff candid pages because I liked it and it wasn't added in. Anyway, that bit of editing has kept me past my bedtime. That is going to suck for me in the morning. And will suck even more when I am stuck at the theater until at least one o'clock in the morning. So I'm going to stop typing now and go to bed.