January 15, 2015

 Today was another day filled with four MAP tests. This week has gone by super fast thanks to testing all day long, every day. I'm kind of done with that. Today after one of the sixth graders finished and I was writing down her score she said she was bored. I told her if she thought taking the test was boring she should try watching someone take a test. I daydream about taking the test. And I hate taking tests.

This morning I had second grade and sixth grade, and this afternoon there was third grade and fifth grade. Nothing eventful happened. I wrote a bunch of scores and nearly fell asleep on several occasions. During the sixth grade test, the new girl rushed through her test once again. Yesterday she answered the forty-three questions on the Reading test in thirteen minutes. Today she answered fifty-three Math questions in eight minutes and forty-four seconds. That is less than ten seconds per questions. When the teacher saw that she was done and how fast it had taken her, he turned around and walked away with his head down and hand over his face. I've seen little kids rush through tests and not gets scores because it was too fast but I've never seen anything quite like this. I don't know what the time cut off is for not getting a score but she had to have been incredibly close. And they obviously need to tweak that time because spending ten seconds per question is obviously way too fast.

I was talking about this with the fifth grade teacher during her test and then I pointed out that the new girl looks almost exactly like a boy the other fifth grade teacher had in her class last year. Like, exactly like him. On a couple occasions I have caught sight of her out of the corner of my eye and I thought it was him, even though he isn't at our school this year. The teacher had only seen the girl a couple times but she instantly recognized how accurate my observation was. I feel like there is a strong chance they two are actually twins separated at birth.

After school I ran into both of the fifth grade teachers in the office just as the one I was talking to earlier was about to tell the other one about what we had been talking about in the lab. So she asked the other teacher who the new girl looked like and I gave her a second to think before saying it and she immediately started laughing. The similarities are verging on freaky. I think one of the student interns this semester looks like Anna Camp from Pitch Perfect but the new girl definitely looks almost exactly like the boy from last year. And I keep repeating that so I'm going to stop now. We all get the point.

Anyway, the other teacher then told us a story about the time last year when the boy was supposed to go to the office but refused so one of the office ladies (who can barely walk) came up to get him and he was dodging around desks and running away from her. And he was a bigger kid so that was probably the fastest he's ever moved.

And that just reminded me that I saw an old guy in the building today who was the closest I've ever seen in person to someone being as wide as the are tall. He was pretty short, so that helped with the illusion, but that didn't take away from how wide he was. It was incredible.

Right as I was about to close Outlook and clock out for the day an alert popped up in Outlook reminding me of the test coordinator meeting scheduled for after school. I had completely forgotten about it. That was the first time I had ever set something in my Outlook calendar and I'm glad I did. I would have eventually seen the alert when I checked my phone before leaving but I saved myself a few minutes.

When got to the school where the meeting was I parked on the side near the library because that is where the meeting was taking place. The door on that side of the building was locked. Obviously. So I walked around to the back of the building and was let in by a custodian who was holding the door open for a woman who was also going to the meeting.

Despite being reminded belatedly and having to find a way into the building, I made it to the library on time. Which cannot be said for the majority of the people attending the meeting. I guess most of them were principals and they were having a meeting at my school, something I had also forgotten. When it was mentioned by one of them that they had just come from the meeting and that the meeting had just ended, I remembered seeing people in the conference room before I ran into the fifth grade teachers. So there really wasn't any need to rush. We ended up not getting started until almost 4:30PM, about fifteen minutes late. The meeting was interesting but a lot of it was of little actual interest to me. I'm also more focused on MAP at the moment.

It was almost 5:30PM after the meeting so I just headed home instead of going to the old house. The cable technician stopped by the house last night and tonight my mom called the cable company to see about getting the internet. The person she talked to was very confused. Along with her supervisor and her supervisor's supervisor. They had the notes and the phone number for the technician but whatever they were trying to do wasn't working. After about a half an hour tey said they would have to call my mom back. Maybe tomorrow because they certainly didn't tonight. The newest neighbors got this ball rolling but it seems to be a bit premature. They got someone somewhere to promise something and that apparently skipped a lot of vital steps in the process. Despite all of that, hopefully we'll have the internet soon.

I spent my night at the old house watching the Neebs livestream. Really it was just listening to the livestream while doing other things but I did watch some of it. They finally got partnered on Twitch which hopefully means the streams will be recorded now. That will be nice.

All night I had my phone sitting on my 3DS so I wouldn't forget my 3DS, which I brought with me but never played. When I was packing up to go I moved my phone so I could put my 3DS in my laptop bag. And then I ended up walking out without my phone. What the crap. It's got a giant yellow case on it. I need to get better about leaving it face down so I can see the case. This is the second time I've forgotten my phone at the old house. Thankfully this time I won't be getting ready for work early so I can go get my phone, only to find out I don't need to go to work. We'll see how things are going in the morning. I might just stop by after work to get my phone because I don't really have any need for it while I'm at work. Either way, I'm going to bed now.