This morning I woke not too long after four o'clock because I had an
itchy throat and kept coughing. I tried some sips of water but that
did nothing so I ended up getting a cough drop. That helped
tremendously and I ended up falling asleep with it under my tongue.
Thankfully it stayed there.
I participated in second grade reading groups this morning. A
college basketball player was there for most of the time so kids
would go back one at a time to read with him. His go-to question was
asking people where they were from, kid or adult, which was kind of
funny but I definitely couldn't walk into a room full of kids and
strangers and not feel totally uncomfortable and awkward, so I think
he handled it well. As for the centers, I started with helping kids
write letters to deployed soldiers, then was a girl's partner on a
word scavenger hunt around the room because she didn't have a
partner, and then I had a small group of kids reading tiny stories
and having to decided if they were to persuade, inform, or entertain.
Other than one kid who really didn't want to write his letter, I
would say everything went pretty well.
After that I had the second grade classes in the lab. I had one
teacher get on Type To Learn and
take the pre-test. Then I had her try the drone control game on the
level I'm at. The kids hate it because it is timed and they fail it
repeatedly and can't move on until they beat it. On my level, I get
thirty more seconds than the kids but I also have to type long
sentences with big words. I think when I beat it I only had three
seconds left. The teacher didn't quite make it.
I went down to the library to give
the librarian the disc with all the student pictures on it because
she needs it to update her student profiles in the computer and
because the lunch lady asked for it. They use it in the lunch room
to check kids out. Their picture pops up when they type in their
number to get their food. Well, last year she got the disc and the
central kitchen lost it and it took me forever to figure out how to
get the pictures I had saved in the right setup so the librarian
could upload them for her thing. So this year I gave her first dibs.
In theory I should be getting another disc at some point that has
higher quality pictures on it. We'll see if that happens.
Today was early release so this
afternoon I didn't have any classes. I spent the morning before
reading groups to work on my second reflective journal entry and I
spent this afternoon finishing it. I am right at a thousand words,
and I'll need to go back and edit it, but for now I'm good. I think
the plan will be to get the rough draft done for all the entries and
then I can go back and touch them up. This entry was a long rant
about bureaucracies and then a long bit about who uses public
libraries. Apparently high-income households with high levels of
education use them way more than people at the lower side of both
scales. This makes sense but at the same time it doesn't. So I
explored that. Tomorrow I'll need to start on the third entry.
After school I came over to the old
house and on my way over I got a low tire pressure warning. I think
the same thing happened last year on the first really cold day.
Which today was. When I was about to head down to Chipotle I texted
my dad to see if he would have any time before Friday to fill up my
tired. He texted me while I was on the road that he had time then so
I turned around and headed his way. We got my tires topped off and
froze our asses off while doing it because not only was it freezing
out but the wind was also incessantly blowing. When we were finished
we went inside and ended up talking about his job for awhile, because
the thermostat is broke and it is 48 degrees in the building, and we
also talked about the real side of Fury
and what it would actually be like psychologically for those guys.
And then my brother and I talked about livestreams and Halo
for a bit.
Chipotle night had been pushed back
until six o'clock because my mom had a book club thing, and then she
said she was going to be late because they got started late. With my
detour to my dad's, I didn't even head across town until almost six
o'clock. This sucked for me because the area around Chipotle and
Jimmy John's sucks at that time. I lost count of how many times I
had to drive around the block to get a parking spot for Jimmy John's.
It was way too cold to be walking for any length of time. After the
nth time around the block I got a spot right in front of the building
but then I had to wait while they filled a party platter. That was
slightly annoying but whatever.
I only had to circle the block twice
to get a parking spot at Chipotle. I had to wait in a normal line
there and it gave me time to spot their newest menu item. I vaguely
remember reading about it awhile ago when they were trying it out in
a few restaurants but sofritas has finally made it our way. I don't
know what sofritas means but it is basically just seasoned tofu. It
looks kind of like shredded chicken and it tastes like seasoned
enchiladas. I don't know if I will end up getting it every time but
it was an alright change. I liked it.
At the moment I have a headache and
my left forearm hurts, probably because I have been typing so much
recently. So I am going to call this entry good so I can stop
typing, take some ibuprofen, and go to bed.
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