August 13, 2014

I got a decent amount of sleep last night but the first full day of school kind of kicked my butt. I would say this was mostly due to my new lenses. The main problem seems to be with the right one and not too long into the day I was rocking a pretty sweet headache behind my right eye. I took an ibuprofen but didn't really feel any relief until the end of the day.

I spent my day updating Odyssey. I didn't expect that to be such an ordeal, and I didn't remember it taking so long last year, but good grief. I thought all the grade levels would automatically update so all I would have to do was delete classes from last year and make new ones for this year. But the grade levels didn't update. I had to edit each kid, not only changing the grade they were in, but also the grade level for each individual subject they had access to. It was such a tedious endeavor. An example of all the clicking for one kid: click 'Edit', click 'Grade', click on the appropriate grade, click 'Subject', click each subject (up to seven or eight) and click the appropriate grade, click 'Done', click on two random menus so the next option I needed would become available, click 'Actions', click 'Add to Class', click on the class, click 'Add'. I did that for every kid from first grade through sixth grade. I also had to put in transfer requests for all the new kids, or make new profiles if they were coming from out of the district, and then go through the same process once they showed up at our school. I also had make new profiles for all of the kindergarteners. I think there are fifty or so this year. I lost count. I started working on it not long after eight o'clock and worked on it fairly consistently until four o'clock. It made for a long day of staring at a computer. Tomorrow I need to update Type to Learn which will hopefully not be as bad as Odyssey. I still need to load programs and and printers onto laptops, cut paper squares for Kindergarten, finish editing the reading thing for one of the resource teachers, and make a shortcut link for the lab computers. My goal is to have all of that done before the weekend. We'll see how that goes. I probably won't get the shortcut link thing done (unless I just reuse the one from last year).

After school I briefly spoke with my fifth grade teacher friend before I got a ride with the librarian to go to the tech meeting. When we got there all the lights were off and the library was empty. It was a bit eerie. We went to the office and learned that the meeting wasn't until the 27^th. Somehow we both managed to get that completely wrong. Like not even close. I looked back at the email and I think the confusion came with the writing of the date '27 Aug 14'. I completely missed the '27' and kind of ignored the '14', focusing on 'Wednesday' which was mentioned shortly after, and kind of assuming the '14' was a '13'. There was a lot of mental gymnastics going on, that's all I have to say.

After the failed meeting, I went and picked up Chipotle before heading home. My burrito ended up being a tad small but it was wrapped well, for the first time in forever, and I didn't have to re-wrap it when I got home. And it tasted good. So I can't complain too much.

I didn't really do much with my even. Just watched YouTube videos and a bit of a livestream. At the moment my head is feeling better and my glasses aren't as blatantly annoying. I can still kind of feel something with my right eye, and if I move my head too much or too fast I get a bit dizzy, but it is a lot better than it was at work. Positive signs I think. Hopefully tomorrow will be headache free. Now I think I am going to read for a little bit before going to bed.