I feel like I am becoming the boy who cried sore throat but once
again my throat feels like something is about to happen. Eventually
I'm going to be right.
Today I decided not to take my textbooks to work and I think that
broke the internet. I bought some ebooks last night and I was going
to look at them in my downtime today so I decided not to bring my
textbooks with me.
When I got to work I finished putting my shortcuts on all the
computers and then I went down and helped with kindergarten literacy
centers. That was a pretty good time. The kids were supposed to
draw their favorite toy and one girl said she was going to draw the
queen. I found out after she drew her picture that the queen was
actually her mother. So I started suggesting actual toys in order to
find something she could draw. She ended up going with Barbie dolls
but still continued to draw people instead of the dolls. I
eventually got her to draw one of the boy dolls and she started
telling me a story about him. He was really strong and could throw
rocks but if they hit a window the window wouldn't break, but he
could knock the school down with his rocks. He also flirts with her
sister because her sister kissed him. And he's Spider-Man. It was a
pretty interesting tale.
We made it halfway through the first graders' lab time when the
internet died. And it stayed down for the rest of the day. Classes
primarily come to the lab to get on Compass Learning or Type To
Learn, both of which are internet things that don't work without
an internet connection. There aren't even any games on the computer
because kids go to websites for that now.
This afternoon both kindergarten classes were scheduled to come to
the lab. The first class opted not to come but the teacher ended up
composing an email to me with his class (because email within the
district still worked) and I wrote back. He later told me that the
kids really liked working on the email and then my response. For the
next kindergarten class I set up Paint and let the kids draw. I gave
several of them instruction on how to get started and then I just had
to stand back because kids are pretty quick learners and they were
eager to help their neighbors figure things out.
At the very end of the day the former resource teacher who now does
stuff for Boys & Girls club came down to the lab because she had
to upload a physical form to a website, which she couldn't do because
the internet was down. My first thought was to get it on her phone
so she could upload it from there but that wasn't going to happen
because I didn't have a cord to connect her phone to a computer and I
couldn't send an email from my computer to her phone without the
internet. I ended up scanning it and emailing it to myself from the
copier (which is a thing I had never tried because but it actually
works pretty well). I was able to email it to my work account
because that was still working. I then put it on a thumb drive for
her so she could put it on her computer and upload it when she got
home and actually had access to the internet.
With all of that going on I kind of forget today was the last day of
the week and didn't shutdown my computer or put out the sheets that
cover the computers over the weekend. Whoops.
After work I went to the old house and loaded up my car with a bunch
of stuff. So much stuff. I wanted to work on answering discussion
post questions for class tonight so I am saving the unloading of my
car for tomorrow. I'm already not looking forward to that. Not only
because of all the back and forth trips, but also because all that
stuff has to go somewhere. I liked when there wasn't so much clutter
in the new house.
Tonight I unsurprisingly got distracted by internet things and DVRed
shows but I did eventually respond to two discussion posts. I want
to respond to at least one or two more tomorrow or Saturday just to
make sure I appear sufficiently active in the discussion. I earned
all twelve points on the last one and I'd like to do the same this
time because all together that is one point shy of a quarter of our
grade for the class. That is significant.
It is late so I'm going to go to bed now. I think I'm going to set
my alarm as if I had to work in the morning just so I can turn it off
and go back to sleep. I run the risk of that becoming a habit, which
would be bad for when I actually need to wake up early. It could
also backfire and I may be wide awake when the alarm goes off and
unable to fall back to sleep. I think I'll risk it.
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