This morning I decided to stay in
bed instead of exercise. I allow myself to do that once a week and
it is my favorite day of the week.
We had a character assembly first
thing this morning. I believe this month was Trustworthiness. The
kids know all about each character trait but quite a few quickly
forget.
Immediately following the assembly,
second graders came to the lab for MAP testing. They only had thirty
minutes because the assembly took up their first thirty minutes and
most of the kids weren't able to finish. Lucky for them, the teacher
scheduled them to come back after lunch.
When the second graders left, first
graders took their place. One of the kids wasn't in the system so
she couldn't take the test. I sent off an email to get her added but
that didn't end up happening until sometime after lunch, so she got
to draw instead of take the test. Unfortunately, she is the one kid
who hates drawing and loves taking tests. And she voiced that
opinion loudly. She is just like a kid in second grade. They look
similar, she has a similar name (but a female version), and they act
the same. Randomly throughout the test she would just start talking
loudly, like she doesn't have a volume switch, and she apparently
does the same thing throughout class. Initially when she was told to
draw, right after saying she wanted to take the test, she proclaimed
that she didn't want to draw an arctic fox, even though no one said
she had to. But then she did. When she was finished I talked her
into writing about the arctic fox. At one point I asked her to
whisper and she looked at me like she had never heard of whispering
before. She eventually started kind of whispering though so that was
nice.
With second grade coming back at
12:30PM, I got them set up before eating a quick lunch. I look
forward to the day, maybe tomorrow, where I don't feel rushed through
my lunch. When the second graders returned, they had a substitute
because their teacher was in a meeting. There substitute was a
really really old guy. He's probably someone's great grandpa. When
he's the sub and the class isn't testing he just drops them off at
the lab and then shows back up when their time is up, but he doesn't
come into the lab, he just waits out in the hall. I didn't realize
this until recently when a para informed me. Anyway, the kids
quickly became talkative as they finished their tests and I was
constantly moving around the lab trying to get kids to stop talking.
And the old guy did nothing. It was a little frustrating.
The rest of my afternoon was filled
with two kindergarten classes and a third grade class. The third
grade class continued to work on their acrostic poems based on their
names. One of the kids lost his save file and had to start over.
This is the conversation we had during that process:
Him – I can't remember what I put for
'F'.
Me – ...Frickin' Awesome?
Him – ...Is that appropriate?
Me – ...Probably not.
I thought it was pretty funny and
the para sitting by him started cracking up.
Throughout the day when I had a bit
of free time and wasn't testing or updating my spreadsheets, I took a
personality test for one of my classes this semester. I kind of feel
like it wasn't much better than a horoscope. There was enough in
there to keep me interested and feel like I was really relating to it
but there was a whole bunch of stuff that definitely had nothing to
do with me. Thanks a lot internet personality test.
After dinner I went down to my room,
emptied my pockets, took off my shoes, turned on an episode of The
Twilight Zone, and had just
gotten comfortable on my bed when my sister texted me that they were
playing GTA5 on the
Neebs livestream. I had completely forgotten about the livestream.
Good grief. I pulled on my old skate shoes, and headed over to the
old house.
I wanted my time to be productive
while I watched the livestream, but instead of doing school stuff, I
started messing with my desktop. I noticed that it was starting
really slow after I switched out motherboards. I tried installing
the new drivers but that didn't seem to help much. I ran a Windows
Experience thing and it showed the disk transfer speed or whatever it
was called dropped two points. I don't know what those points mean
but going from a 7-point-something to a 5-point-something seemed
significant. I tried some other things but to no avail so I decided
to just reinstall windows. Get a good, clean start to my new
motherboard.
I finished that a little bit ago and
now I'm trying to get all the drivers updated again. It doesn't seem
to have fixed the slow start up but I'll save that judgment for after
I get everything set up again. I also still need to figure out my
missing hard drive. I can't even remember what was on it but I think
one of my Windows backups was on it, which is kind of funny. Also,
even though I'm connected to a monitor using a DVI cable, the
computer is only seeing it as a VGA cable and giving me crappy
resolution options. More things to worry about when I have more
time. It's already eleven o'clock and I should be in bed, not
messing around with this. I should have picked tomorrow as my skip
exercise day
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