The morning started off with a
performance by the middle school band. It is still the same band
teacher that I had in middle school. The same band teacher who I saw
when I was in grade school and it made me want to join the band.
He's still got it. He's incredibly animated and jokes around and
just makes the whole thing fun. You can tell the kids in the band
really like it and the grade school kids love it. They are going to
be hard pressed to find someone even half as good as him when he
retires.
After the assembly one of the fifth
grade classes came to the lab. I talked to the teacher about a
worst-case-scenario wisdom teeth video she had to watch, her getting
accepted into a leadership thing that the district started that will
help her earn her master's degree (which she will start next Fall),
her being up late helping her boyfriend finish his paper for school,
and probably some other things.
Both second grade classes came in
after that to round out the morning. Maybe one of the third grade
classes, too. I can't remember. A lot of my day was focused on
updating my MAP spreadsheets. It took me until the end of the day, a
little after, to get everything updated but I managed it. The only
things left are the scores that haven't been updated yet because
tests still need to be deleted. If that could happen by the end of
the week so I could print off reports, that would be great.
Near the end of the day I went down
to one of the third grade rooms because the gifted kids were giving
presentations and the gifted teacher wanted me there to help out with
technology stuff. It was good that I was there when switching from a
laptop to an iPad but other than that it really wasn't necessary for
me to be there. But I had been staring at spreadsheets all day and
it was nice to get out of the lab. The presentations were pretty
interesting, as well. At one point I accidentally bumped a stack of
drawings that then slowly slid down to the floor, in a less than
quiet fashion. That was embarrasing. Also slightly embarrassing was
not being able to get the sound to work for the iPad, through the
projector. I didn't realize the iPad presentations would have sound
but they did. Had I known, I probably would have messed with it
beforehand to make sure it would work. Oh well.
After school I went and got Chipotle
and then headed home. My burrito tonight was pretty good, probably
because I took last week off for my birthday. After dinner I was
able to show a bunch of videos that I haven't been able to show the
past few weeks because I was too focused on schoolwork. That was
nice. Also, my sister gave me the birthday present she got me that
ended up getting stuck in New York for several days. It's an
Elephant Wallet, not made from real elephants, and it looks pretty
cool. I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Tonight I eventually played a little
bit of GTA5. I
downloaded several custom races so most of my time was spent trying
those out. The all only required one player to start, which meant I
could try them out by myself, without the stress of other racers. Or
having to wait for other racers to join, which can take forever.
Now I'm going to bed because it is
late. Tomorrow I'll probably try and get some work done on the
slideshow. I'd like to get as much as possible done this week so I
don't have to spend too much time on it this weekend. I will also be
staying a half an hour late after school to help the library clerk
cover the Book Fair because the librarian has something going on.
I've managed to not buy any books this time around and hopefully I
can keep that up. I still need to write out my budget for this
summer but I'm probably going to be cutting it pretty close if I
don't come up with a summer job.
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