March 24, 2015

 I forgot to mention I talked to the school librarian yesterday and she said there might be a job in one of the school libraries this summer. They are open during the month of June and a few of them may still need someone to cover. I haven't heard anything about the practicum yet but I doubt the theater will be a thing and the library would only be four hours a day, four days a week. So that, with two classes, would still leave plenty of time for a practicum. And it would give me something to put on my resume.

Today I was expecting three tests, two in the morning and one in the afternoon, but the last one was canceled so my afternoon was better than expected. The testing was a little rough, not in terms of mechanics, but because pretty much all the kids struggled with the math. It was painful to watch. And really it has only just begun because the full classes start testing next week. Then testing will continue until May. Testing blows.

In my free time I edited baby pictures. I also found a track listing for the Harry Potter audiobook chapters. Now I can go through and chop up the first book so I don't get hours into it and have it reset again. And I made some desktop icons for the library clerk's computer.

At the end of the day we had our monthly character award assembly. At the end of it several teachers and staff went to the front and had a pie thrown in their face by one of the students. Early in the year students (their parents) were able to bid on the opportunity to throw the pies. The kids love. The ones not throwing the pies probably enjoy it more than the pie kids. They went nuts. It was pretty entertaining.

Tonight I worked on a script for the website tour portion of my instructional presentation. I can very close to finishing it. Tomorrow I should be able to finish it and run through everything to see what my timing is like. Hopefully close to fifteen minutes but not close enough that I'll accidentally go over when I start to ramble. And not so short that it becomes super short when I talk fast and forget most of what I planned on saying.

Tomorrow I also need to submit my first discussion post of the week, because those are thing again. I'm ready for a break from school, which won't come until the semester is over. After the instructional presentation this weekend, I still have my group project in that class, a solo project in that class, and my group project in the other class. It feels like so much work. Probably because it is a lot of work. I need to work on my time management.

Right now I'm watching Goldy, Vern, and the rest of their crew play through the last heist in GTA5. There still in the setup missions so I'm not going to make it to the end because I'm going to call it a night soon. But I'll be able to catch the recorded streams later. Something to look forward to.