April 20, 2015

 I'm so tired right now and my monitors seem super bright. Part of me kind of feels like I'm getting sick. It's probably stress related. I'm a bit late but I think I need to go into hibernation. Just for a month or three. Recharge the batteries a little.

There was more testing today. As there was last week. And as there will be next week. Fourth graders tested first today and as their teacher walked into the lab she said, in a sing-songy voice, “We're ba-ack.” She was then followed into the lab by one of her students, who in a perfection impression of that sing-songy voice, said “And we're awe-some.” It was pretty funny.

And speaking of funny, after the two morning tests, one of the third grade classes came into the lab and I overhead this humorous exchange between the classes intern and one of the students:

Intern – Did you do anything exciting over the weekend?

Student – Yes.

Intern – What'd you do?

Student – Went to GameStop.

Intern – Cool, what'd you get?

Student – A game.

Intern – Duh, which one?

Student – Super Smash Bros.

Intern – Ugh, that's the best.

This afternoon there were another two tests, one being a MAP test. I can tell my back is not up to the bending down and recording of the scores yet because tonight I bent over and reached to put my place mat back under the napkin holder after dinner and I thought my back was going to give out. Hopefully it gets back in shape before MAP testing really takes off.

I had a little bit of time after class so I went and took pictures of three of the third grade students who weren't here for the first picture day. It hit me last night that the yearbook is due on Friday and I hadn't taken pictures of any of the missing kids yet. I know I've got at least one kindergartener and one fifth grader to get but there may be more. I sent out preview pages to the teachers today so they could double check spelling and let me know who was missing.

I had a few exchanges with my MIA partner tonight. At one point she kind of tried to allude to me being at fault for not giving her feedback on the feedback she gave me. I asked her not to do that and said my lack of response didn't prevent her from posting her own thoughts over the past six weeks. I'm just so over it and I want to get past this weekend. I don't want it to come because I am afraid of the train wreck but it also can't come fast enough. I need to write a goddamn research paper and I can't focus on that with all this lack of group shit floating around my head.

Despite those exchanges, I had a kind of productive night, reading most of a chapter on geographical resources and making my post about a geographical resource for my other group project. We still have to read two other chapters and make two other posts for this week. Along with reading a chapter and a couple PDFs for my other class in preparation for the face-to-face meeting this weekend. This week is going to suck. Especially if I continue to feel like crap.

And now I'm going to go to bed because I feel like crap. And it's almost eleven o'clock.