May 11, 2015

Today was a wonderful, test-free day. It was kind of weird. This morning I glued the pictures I put together of some of the sixth graders who have been going to our school since kindergarten. I scanned their kindergarten pictures from the yearbook and put them next to their portrait from this year. Then I cut them out and glued them on colored construction paper. I think they turned out pretty well.

This afternoon I finished editing the appreciation card for one of the fifth grade teachers and got those printed out. That also turned out pretty well. She thanked me for fixing all of her coloring mistakes. I learned that the process for the card involves her having the kids draw a random thing that is in the shape of whatever letter they are assigned. She then makes a photocopy of the drawings and resizes them before finally coloring them. And then I scan that, fix the coloring and do whatever else needs fixing and print them on cardstock.

This morning both second grade classes came to the lab which was weird because it was normal. It was nice getting to talk to those teachers again, more than just in passing in the hallway or when they have a question.

This afternoon, after finishing the appreciation card, I worked on inputting MAP scores to my spreadsheet. I got all of that finished and now I am putting in all of the percentiles from the official reports. After that I'll update the second page for each class in the spreadsheet that, among other things, show the change in scores and percentiles from the last test. I should be able to finish that tomorrow, maybe. And if all of the tests I requested to be deleted are deleted by tomorrow, I can start printing off reports for the teachers.

I also need to work on the slideshow. I think that might become a weekend project. We're coming down to the wire again. I'm pretty sure I still need at least one more song but I won't really know for sure until I get all of the slides assembled and figure out the timing. It would be nice if I hadn't lost the slideshow file from last year when my hard drive crapped out so I could go back and look at it to remember how I did everything. I'll be working from a poor memory and will probably just make it up as I go and hope for the best. A wonderful plan.

After school I went and got my haircut and then came home. All day I was looking forward to leftover barbecue pineapple pizza and it did not disappoint. My sister also brought over the pitas she made so I had some of those with the black bean hummus and the cucumber hummus. I'm still enjoying both of those. I don't know what it is about my sister's pitas and hummus but I could probably eat all of both, in one sitting, making myself sick in the process, and enjoying every bite. I'm addicted.

Tonight I played a little Minecraft. I explored for awhile and worked on my house. I had an idea for making a tunnel under my house (which is on a hill) for the stream to cut through (which goes around the hill my house is on). The only problem is that my basements get in the way. I'm going to have to rethink the design. And just now I thought of one. I kind of want to jump back in and rough out the idea but it's already late and that would probably be a mistake. But I might anyway.

I also played a little GTA5 tonight. I bought a new ten-car garage and quickly filled it up with stolen cars. In my other garage I immediately took my cars to the chop shop and got insurance and change the paint. With my new garage, most of the cars were all impulse steals, so I didn't commit to putting money into them just yet. At some point I'm going to need to get more choosy. Going along with that, I did purchase my first vehicle tonight. It is a motorcycle that I stole one of the first times I played the game and instantly loved but you aren't able to steal and keep it so I finally broke down and bought it. Thankfully, I think it is is the cheapest motorcycle in the game, so that was nice.

I got an email for one of my summer classes tonight. The professor introduced herself and told us which books we would need to buy. Literally the day after I finish the Spring semester and I'm already having to think about the Summer semester. Still isn't as bad as one of the other classes who's professor has been emailing the students for at least the last several weeks. I think that would have been too much for me to take.

So yeah, I'm going to finish this and then jump back into Minecraft real quick and see if the idea I just had will actually work. And then I'm going to go to bed. I'm a big fan of sleep. I need to get more of it.