December 2, 2014

We're up to 38 baby spiders caught in my bathroom. This includes the drowned one I found in my bathtub. There was one tiny puddle of water in my tub and that stupid spider managed to find it.

This morning I parallel parked at work. I eventually made it, so we can say I was successful, but getting there was a bit rough. I ended up really far away from the curb on my first attempt and end up going back and for, slowing inching my closer and closer to the curb. It was ridiculous. My main problem is having to real idea where my bumpers are. I always think I'm super close to something and in reality I'm several feet away. I need to get the poles on the edge of my bumpers that some trucks have so I now exactly how close I am to something. It would look very much out of place but I'd be able to parallel park like nobody's business.

I helped out with literacy centers for both kindergarten classes today. There isn't really a writing component to the listening center this week, the kids are just listening to several books. There is only one copy of the last two so my main reason for being there, other than changing CDs, is to hold up the book for the kids during the last two stories. I was glad to be there.

When the sixth graders came down to type this morning one of them was complaining to the teacher about typing and it eventually got to the point where he determined she wasn't doing it right and hadn't learned anything from the previous levels in Type To Learn (and she was being unnecessarily argumentative) so he had me delete her progress. The next time they come in she will have to start over from the beginning. The potential good news for her is that it will start with the pre-test, so if she has actually learned something, the pre-test should put her on the correct level and not make her go through all the beginning levels again. Fingers crossed for her.

I had time to edit my reflective journal today. I caught a few things and made corrections. I had my mom read over it tonight and she caught some more stuff, which I will change tomorrow. I'll probably read over the whole thing one more time before I turn it in on Friday, just to be safe.

While watching the Yogscast livestream I continued work on my channel guide for my mom. It is looking good so far. I still need to have some time to go through all the channels we actually get so I know the list I am making is accurate with the correct channel number. I made significant progress today, though, and when I showed my mom the preview, she liked it.

This afternoon one of the third grade classes came to the lab. One of the students was working through an activity about angles with the teacher and at the end of it there was something on the screen about how even Michelangelo would be proud. The teacher commented to the student “And you probably think that's a turtle.” There was a pause of several seconds and then the student replied, with a somewhat confused look on her face, “He is a turtle.” It was pretty funny.

Tonight I did the reading for the discussion post for this week. The last day of class is on Friday, so rather than the post being due on Sunday, like always, it will be due on Friday, as far as I know. The problem at the moment is that the professor hasn't posted the video lecture for the week or the discussion questions. It would be nice if he could get that done during the day tomorrow so I can get that over with. I work at the theater on Friday night so that really doesn't leave any time to post on Friday. It'll all work out.