April 30, 2015

 Currently my brain is fried and isn't quite working right. I'm keep trying to think of things and there's just a lot of nothing. Kind of frustrating.

There was more testing today. I think two this morning and one this afternoon. They're all blending together if we're being honest. One more week.

I got a hen and chick plant from one of the third grade classes today, along with a few handwritten notes from a few of the kids. I think it is related to para appreciation week, because my mom also got one. I'm not a para but it's a cool looking plant. I later asked the teacher two questions. What the plant was called, and how do I not kill it. Apparently they are fairly easy to care for so lets home my thumb is green enough. I had a bonsai tree years ago that slowly died, and I also had the beginnings of an avocado tree, grown from a seed, that quickly died. The hen and chick plant seems kind of like a gimme, so fingers crossed.

We had a fire drill this afternoon. It was postponed slightly because it was going to happen in the middle of a test, but the delay allowed all but one student to finish, who was able to come back after the drill and finish. It was really bright outside, by the way. We were only out for a few minutes but it felt like I was already getting a tan. I should probably go outside more.

Later in the afternoon there was a POPS choir performance. I've gotta say, I've seen a lot better. It looked like they had been doing the performance all day long at different schools and they just couldn't quite muster the steam any longer. On top of that, their teacher sat on the stage behind them the whole time and couldn't have looked less enthused. Also, when the kids sang, there was a very noticeable over enunciation of words ending in 'T'. It was strange but maybe that is a thing in singing. And there was a girl that didn't have a male partner, and most of the songs involved dancing with a partner, so she spent most of the songs dancing by herself off to the side. It was kind of sad. I thought they would have rotated girls but they didn't.

Before the performance the music teacher, who introduced the choir, took the opportunity to steal the lime light a little bit and have the whole school, and the POPS choir kids, sing her daughter happy birthday, who turned six today. I'm on the fence about that. That is a cool gesture but it's not really the time or place to do that, especially with the choir kids already on a tight schedule. But whatever.

After school one of the fifth grade teachers stopped by the lab to show me a wrapper she had found on the floor. The other day we were talking about how she thought her wisdom teeth were coming in because her teeth were hurting and I said that she was basically experiencing adult teething. The wrapper she found on the floor was called Teether or Teethers or something like that, and it appeared to be for adult teething. Very strange coincidence. Kind of like last night when I wasn't even looking for it but found an article on the latest theory for why some people have room for their wisdom teeth and other people don't. Childhood diet, by the way, not evolution.

My graphics card and fans arrived today. I opened the big box to get the packing slip out, which wasn't there, and then looked at my graphics card box for awhile. I also took the large fan I got and held it up to my case to make sure it would fit. I'm pretty sure it will. I ordered one with a blue LED but got a black one without an LED. That's kind of annoying. I guess we could say the joke is on them, however, because the black fan costs about a dollar more than the blue LED fan. I didn't double-check but the two small fans I got should have blue LEDs so there's that. They will be replacing the two green LED fans I currently have set up in a push-pull fashion on the liquid cooler I have for my CPU. I'm replacing them because one of those fans died. I would like to have all green lights in my case but now I'll just have blue, instead of blue and green. Maybe with my next case I can go all green. Anyway, after looking at the graphics card box, and really wanting to open it, I gave it to my mom so she can wrap it up and give it to me for my birthday next week. The goal is still to be done with all my schoolwork by then but that is obviously not going to happen.

Speaking of which, tonight was severely unproductive. I managed to make a discussion post, which took way too much effort. I also organized all of my group posts into one document, which will make up the appendix for my summary journal I need to write. It's eleven o'clock now but I'm going to try and stay up late enough to at least get something down for that journal. I've just had complete writer's block all night. But screw it. If I can at least get a little something down, maybe it will open the floodgates. I'm going to work on that as soon as I finish this, with the goal of at least giving the briefest of insights into why I picked the resources I did. Then I can go back tomorrow and throw in some fact-based reasoning from things we have learned this semester. That will give me all day Saturday and Sunday to find more sources for, and then write, my research paper. Haha. Yeah. I just need to pretend it is due this Sunday instead of the Sunday after.