February 27, 2015

Today happened, I'm sure of it, but it also seems so long ago. I forgot to mention a couple things yesterday so I'll start with those.

Yesterday morning the school librarian asked me about setting up a Twitter account for the library. Several of the other school libraries have one and she wanted to try it out. So I set up an email account and then used that to set up the Twitter account. Fairly simple after finally finding a username that made sense and wasn't taken. I gave her all the information but I'm still going to help her out until she's more comfortable with it. We both have personal Twitter accounts but neither of us really use them so it will be a good learning experience for the both of us. I came up with some ideas for her today in terms of a tweeting schedule just so she can get in the habit of doing it.

Last night I found my house key. I was sitting in my chair, watching the Neebs livestream and I put my hands in my hoodie pockets. That's when I felt a key in my left pocket. It turned out to be my old house key but I have absolutely no idea how it got there. Like not even an inkling. My mom said the other day she put it on the counter which I never knew about and never saw it there. But then it shows up in my hoodie pocket. It has to be one of the freakiest moments of my life. Not in the scary sense but just the freaky sense. I can't even imagine a scenario where that key ended up in my pocket. None that make sense anyway. It is just so strange.

This morning I kind of helped with reading groups in second grade. A couple kids were working on the teacher's iPad making a cartoon. They had a story all laid out, which was pretty detailed but quickly turned into a very loose guide. They would pick a scene, drag characters onto it, and when they hit 'Record', they could drag the characters around to animate them and then they would speak the parts. We sat in the hall as they worked and I had to stifle my laughter several times because they were speaking in really high voices and they had some pretty good improvised dialogue.

I got a few more sixth grade baby pictures and had time to scan and edit all of the ones I have gotten so far, fixing the colors, adding in the border and the shadow. Slowly but surely. I still need to go through and edit the pictures I found on the faculty drive.

This morning I learned that one of the second grade teachers is missing the two teeth on either side of her two front teeth. I don't know if they just never grew in or what but they used braces to move her incisors and the rest of her teeth over and then ground down the incisors to make them look like regular teeth. I never would have guessed because she has nice looking teeth.

I think I figured out the testing dilemma. I emailed the principal ideas on how to move things around if she wanted to go that route and I also counted up the free spots based on how the schedule is now. There are at least twenty-two MAP tests (based on each class needing to take two tests) and there are forty-four spots available for testing. So we should be good. I don't know about my sanity having to test all day every day for a couple months, but at least in terms of getting the test done, we should be good.

After work not a lot happened. I eventually got around to responding to a discussion post sometime after dinner. I'll respond to at least one more tomorrow and another one on Sunday. I spent a large portion of my night messing around with a thing for the library Twitter account and watching a livestream. The same guy I started following after he was raided by Neebs a couple weeks ago. The last game he streamed, and is still streaming now, was Minecraft on the PS4. I assumed there would be some differences but I was able to help him out a little bit. It helped that there were only about six people watching the stream at the time and I was the only one offering advice. While I was offering tips on the building of his first farm another person joined in and I'm pretty sure they were an idiot. Or just a kid. Probably both. I still threw out some tidbits but it was like trying to argue with a kid, and arguing with a kid, or anyone really, is pointless, so I didn't.

I took a break from the stream to go pick my mom up from a bar. That makes her sound like a drunk but she's not. One of the paras at work is getting married soon so tonight she had her bachelorette party. They went to a place to paint paintings and then went bar-hopping. My mom didn't really drink much but she rode down with a couple other paras so she needed a ride home. Which I was glad to provide.

But now it is way too freaking late and I'm going to end up sleeping through most of tomorrow. Something I don't want to do because I need to come up with a resource for my group project. We'll see how it goes. If I wake up before lunch it will be an achievement.