My cutout started its day behind the door in the workroom, right by
the copier. But it didn't stay there for very long. I can't
remember who it was this morning when I was clocking in that said we
should put it in the fourth grade teacher's car because she is the
one scaring everyone with it, but it happened. When the teacher
wasn't paying attention a para borrowed her keys out of her purse and
handed them off to one of the receptionists, who took my cutout and
put it on the passenger side of the fourth grade teacher's car. I
went out and looked at it with the the two second grade teachers and
one of the third grade teachers. It was hard to see at first, and
that was when I knew it was there, so I'm interested to see if it
scared her. It was a really nice day out and the third grade teacher
asked if we thought the principal would mind if we brought a six-pack
and just sat outside. Pretty funny.
Before school started I went up to the third floor to drop off MAP
reports and when I got to the first landing on my way down I stopped
because two classes were headed up. One of the fifth grade girls
wasn't really looking as she rounded the corner and got a few steps
up before she caught a glimpse of me standing there and when I moved
she almost fell down the stairs because she thought I was the cutout.
So the cutout can scare people and apparently I can too now.
The school day started with a middle school band performance. It's
amazing how much of a difference a couple years can make. It
actually sounds pretty good when they play, compared to kids in their
first or second year with an instrument. One of the songs they
played was a lullaby and in the middle of it one of the adults
traveling with the band accidentally hit the light switches and
turned off all the lights in the gym. It was somewhat fitting given
the song and luckily there are enough sunlight coming through the
windows that the kids could continue playing.
I spent most of my day working on science fair certificates and
handouts. I had the certificates how I wanted them and went to see
if the principal wanted to sign all of them or if I should put her
name on them in a fancy font. I was assuming the font, and she was
busy when I went to check but one of the receptionists had a copy of
the principals signature, in PNG form, so she sent me that and I
added it in. I then spent way too much time and paper trying to get
the microscope in the background of the certificate to come out the
right color. It was supposed to be blue, and it came out blue on the
first two, but them came out yellow or pink or whatever other random
colors but no matter how I tweaked it, no blue. It then took me
several more tweaks to get it to come out light gray. Several times
I would get it just right and then when I would switch back to
cardstock it would mess up again. It was quite frustrating but I
eventually got it figured out. One teacher wanted blank ones so she
could write in the kids' names and sign them. For everyone else I
typed in the kids' names and left the teacher field blank for them to
sign. I don't want to toot my own horn but I will because I think
the certificates came out looking really good. Especially compared
to an old example the receptionist gave me.
And the same goes for the handout. There were some examples and they
just weren't doing anything for me. Especially the one with a giant
misspelled word. The handout were kind of an afterthought but I
threw one together pretty quick. It was simple but I think it turned
out really well. I then guessed on how many I would need, copied
them off, cut them out (because they were half-sheet handouts), and
ran around the building handing them out to teachers. I ended up
falling short, of handouts and time, before I reached third grade so
I went back to the copier and made more. I caught most of the third
graders as they were walking past me in the hall but I did miss a few
when they went out a side door. I could tell some of the kids could
not have cared less about the science fair or the handout, but I
really liked the simplicity of the handout.
When I wasn't doing the science fair stuff I had one kid come for a
MAP test and then a couple classes in the lab. So not a lot going
on. It was pretty much all science fair today because the actual
event is tomorrow night.
After school I went with the librarian to the last tech meeting of
the year. It started off much better than the last one because they
didn't lock us out of the building. And the meeting itself was going
pretty smoothly in the beginning. There wasn't too much on the
agenda and they were running through it pretty quick. Then the
librarian had to leave and shortly after, they opened the floor for
questions and everything went downhill. It quickly turned into
personal questions that the lead techs obviously couldn't get answers
for through email so they took the opportunity to ask the tech guys
directly. One question never got a real answer and spun into a pity
party about firewall troubles. That went on for several minutes.
Content-wise the meeting should have lasted a half hour, and instead,
it lasted an hour. Thankfully the next one isn't until September,
which I assume I will be going to as long as the librarian is still
the lead tech. I'm counting the days.
I didn't have a lot going on with most of my night. I started
downloading Wildstar, an
MMORPG, because for the next few days it is in open BETA and I like
the art style. From the clips I've seen it doesn't really look like
it will be my thing, plus it isn't free, but I thought I would try it
out and see what's up. I'll have to do that tomorrow or Friday.
I got a call from my sister around
nine o'clock to see if I could help my brother move a chair from her
house over to my grandma's. My grandma is having a lot of back pain
and this chair is a remote control one that my other grandma got
years ago and sat in twice before deciding she didn't like it. So my
sister had the idea of moving it over to my grandma's house. My dad
backed up my sister's husband's pickup (because it is a manual and he
is the only one of the four of us who can reliably drive a manual)
and my brother and I picked the chair up and put it in the bed of the
pickup. It seems like a pretty compact chair but the motor and stuff
must be heavy because it was a very solid chair. They packed a lot
of weight into a small space.
When we got over to my grandma's
house, she looked pretty miserable reclined in her current chair.
She just looked really uncomfortable. We got her up and then did
some rearranging before my brother and I brought the other chair in.
We went through the garage and got stopped by the kitchen door on our
first attempt but after rotating the chair so it was facing forward
we were able to squeeze it through. My sister and brother had to run
back to her house to get a cable but after that my grandma was able
to try the chair and she instantly looked better. The chair was
firmer and offered a lot more support when she reclined, which took a
lot of the pressure off her back. I think she was finally
comfortable for the first time in days. She had to get back up
while we moved it into place and got everything set up around the
chair within her reach, but after that she was able to get back in
the chair and relax. The chair also lifts up pretty high so she
isn't having to lift herself out of the chair or fall back into it.
My sister definitely wins for having the thought to bring it over.
I got home close to eleven o'clock
and now I am almost done with this. So I will be going to bed
shortly. I believe last night was also a near-midnight night. Not
good. I need my beauty sleep.
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