February 18, 2015

I started my workday by emailing one of the SPED teachers. She has sent out numerous emails about a certain para being absent from work. The para seems to be a bit of a malingerer. Another email was sent out today so I decided to reply and said I would also be absent, but only in spirit. That started a brief chain of emails about her saying she has been absent in spirit since coming back from maternity leave, me saying that was obvious but I didn't want to say anything and make things awkward, her saying she can take the truth and she would even give me a Milk Dud for my honesty, and me feigning exciting for a whole Milk Dud all to myself. And that was the end of it and a quickly forgot all about it.

Near the end of the day I was standing in the lab talking with the fifth grade teacher who's class was in the lab, and a little second grader came sneaking into the lab with a big smile on his face and handed me a box of Milk Duds with a note that said “You are worth more than just one Dud!” Hilarious. I was completely caught off guard and it was a brilliant response.

My morning was filled with classes. I had fifth grade, both second grade classes, and then third grade. I had good conversations with the fifth grade teacher, the second grade teachers, and a para. It made the morning go by faster.

When the fifth grade class was in the lab they were working on Type to Learn for the first thirty minutes and one of the computers had the fan going full speed the entire time. Once the girl logged out of Type to Learn, there was another copy running, and another behind that, and several more behind that. She must have gone to town on clicking that icon because she had at least seven or eight copies running. But, as soon as she closed out of all of them the fan calmed down. Like immediately. It was kind of funny.

Right after lunch there was an assembly for a middle school choir performance. Unsurprisingly, none of the boys had solos, but several of the girls did and they were really good singers. I was impressed. And a tad envious because I have always thought it would be cool to be able to sing. I can play musical instruments but singing doesn't really happen.

When I didn't have classes, I was able to read most of the last article for my organization class. And I was able to finish it up before dinner.

Speaking of, Chipotle was pretty good tonight. I changed things up a bit and got brown rice, black beans, corn salsa, sour cream, and cheese. I opted not to get the sofritas because it has kind of lost its novelty. I also haven't had the corn salsa in a really long time. I got it last weekend when I ate there with my brother and it was a nice change so I decided to get it tonight. I'll get tired of it soon enough but for this week at least, it was good.

After dinner I showed my mom and sister a bunch of YouTube videos and then I came downstairs to work on school stuff. I was really unproductive most of the night, hence me still being up at this late hour (11:30PM). To write my first discussion post this week I had to reference a few different PDFs so I decided to use my desktop so I could have them open over both monitors. It would have been even better had I had my third monitor hooked up but I didn't.

My discussion post ended up being really long but I think I did alright. The FRBR model is sort of kind of starting to make sense. At least Group 1 that talks about works, expressions, manifestations, and items. It is still tricky but it makes a lot more sense than it did when I first started reading about it. So that's good.