I got a full night of sleep last night and it was pretty great.
Until I had to get out of bed. I could have done without that part.
Once again, not a lot going on at work today. This morning I went
down and helped with kindergarten literacy centers. My group was
working on opposites. They had to write down to opposite things and
then draw a picture of them. One kid wrote down the infinity symbol
and zero. And it was a struggle to get another kid to write up and
down. I'm glad I was in that group though because it lead to a
realization later in the day. I don't know if it is an accurate
realization but it seems like it could make sense.
I had an extended lunch today because my grandma and aunt were in
town so I met them, along with my sister and dad, and we had lunch.
It was really good to see my grandma and she seems to be doing well.
They recently got a new cat because the old demon one died. I can't
remember how. Or maybe it is a why question. He attacked my grandma
and years ago attacked my uncle. Not a great cat. But the new one
sounds nice and my grandma doesn't seem to mind her. It was funny
when my aunt said that grandma should tell us about her new cat and
my grandma's first comment was that she has never had a cat and she
still doesn't. As for lunch. I had a blueberry pancake and
scrambled eggs. So good.
On my way back to work I had my opposites realization. I was sitting
at a stoplight by Pizza Hut and they had a sign that said something
soft was a dollar during a certain period of the day. I could only
see the word “soft” and not the word immediately after so as I
was waiting for the light to turn green I was trying to figure out
that second word. The only word I could think of was “pretzel”,
which I thought probably wasn't correct, even if they do have pretzel
crust. But I don't eat there so I don't even know if they still have
that. Anyway, after the light turned green I turned in front of the
sign was able to see that it was advertising one dollar soft drinks.
I then had a quick thought about that being a weird name for
something, and then I went into opposite mode thanks to kindergarten
this morning and thought “hard drinks”. It would make sense that
the opposite of a hard, alcoholic drink would be a soft,
non-alcoholic drink. I don' know if that is the origin of the term
but I'm going to go with it.
In my downtime today, which there was a lot of, I read a PDF of a
chapter for the class I'm having a face-to-face with this weekend.
It was all about teaching as a librarian, mostly as a reference
librarian at an academic library but example were given for other
librarians as well. It was interesting and kind of made me
excited/scared at the prospect of having to possibly do that for a
job interview. I remember back in college when they were
interviewing new Psychology professors and the prospects had to teach
a class. There would be so much pressure. Granted, that is what
they want to be doing, but still.
After work I mailed a bill, bought a Powerball ticket, and stopped by
the old house to pick stuff up. My sister was there painting so I
ended up talking to her for quite awhile before finally loading my
car up and heading home for dinner.
The rest of my night, after unloading half of my car because I'm
leaving the trunk for tomorrow, was spent reading a textbook. I
finished reading the chapter for my other class. There was some
interesting stuff in it dealing with the internet and digital
resources but the majority of the rest of it went way over my head,
as per usual with this textbook. I feel like this could be a
somewhat interesting topic if I had any idea what the hell was going
on. But I don't because this textbook has just thrown me into the
middle of the ocean, forgetting that it should have been teaching me
how to swim first.
At the moment it is nearly eleven o'clock so I'm not going to get the
amount of sleep I enjoyed last night. But it is also like a Friday
because of teacher conferences so I can sleep late on tomorrow night.
Something to look forward to.
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