January 26, 2015

Last night was another involving a lot less sleep than I would have liked. Tonight will be better.

This morning I got to help out with second grade reading groups for the first time in awhile. I wasn't really needed though because I ended up just sitting there and talking to the kids as they cut out words and glued them down. And in the second group I stood there as the only two kids in the group cracked each other up for fifteen minutes. At one point one of them said to the other “You're killin' me Smalls.” Not the right context from the movie but it still made sense and it was really funny.

I left there early so I could start a MAP test for a fifth grader. Following that, both second grade classes came to the lab while I a group of first graders in the back row making up MAP tests.

This afternoon, I had one kid take a MAP test, a group of sixth graders, a group of second graders, and a first grade class. That was all fairly uneventful.

Throughout the day I sent off emails to have MAP tests deleted and updated my spreadsheets. I got caught up with all the scores I have so far and have started calculating the change in scores from the last test. When I eventually get that done I want to make the pie charts I made last time.

After work I went to the old house and loaded up my desktop. So many freaking cords and cables. Getting my TV off the wall mount was way easier than it was putting it on the wall mount. I was hoping that the screws I used for the wall mount were the same ones for the TV stand but they aren't. I can vaguely remember where I put the screws in my desk but that was before I packed everything up. Now I have no idea where they are. I need to get that sorted out because I can't just lean the TV against the wall. I looked in the boxes I have at the new house but didn't have any luck. I'll need to dig through the stuff I still have over at the old house. And cross my fingers.

Tonight I ate way too much for dinner again but I managed to finish all the leftovers. Tomorrow I will eat a more reasonable dinner. I'm not a fan of feeling stuffed. After dinner I read textbooks. The organizing one is still really dense and boring but the reference one is pretty interesting so far. I've got a lot of reading left to do this week.