May 15, 2015

 The official MAP reports still weren't updated today for three of the classes that needed tests deleted. Kind of annoying. I ended up printing out my spreadsheets for the classes that are up to date, to add to my pie charts and the official reports, and I gave those to the teachers.

I also printed out a bunch of labels for folders. It required exporting a report from the online student directory and importing that into Word so the fields in that report would fill in the designated fields in the label template. I'm glad it didn't take me forever to remember how to do it.

I got the last baby pictures today, so now I have at least one for every sixth grader. And the majority of my day, when there weren't classes in the lab, was spent working on the slideshow. I scanned and edited the new pictures, edited some other pictures, and started making the individual slides. Tomorrow I want to finish making those individual slides so I can drop them into my video program and get an idea for how long the actual slideshow will be. I still need a third song. At least I think I'll need a third song. I'll find out when I figure out the slideshow running time.

This afternoon the fifth and sixth grade band and orchestra kids had a concert. I remember the concerts being so much more impressive when I was in fifth and sixth grade. I'm assuming now that my memory is misleading. The difference between the grade school band and the middle school band is shocking. The middle school band is really good. And again, I remember it being really good when I was in middle school, so I guess in this case my memory is accurate. That makes me even. But back to the point. The amount of progress these kids make in just a couple of years is incredible.

On my way home after work I stopped by the bank to deposit a check. It has been quite awhile since I have gone to that bank, possibly a year or more. There is a new teller, or maybe an old teller because, again, it's been forever. Either way, she seemed genuinely friendly. Not like that fake kind of friendly that tellers and other people in customer service have to develop. It was the kind of friendly that is contagious and just kind of makes you happy. I need to remember this on the dark days near the end of a semester so I can make up an excuse to go to the bank and hope that teller is working so I can get a pick-me-up.

Tonight it was more of the same, Minecraft and GTA5. In Minecraft I did some things and in GTA5 I participated in a bunch of races and customized some of my cars.

Now it is after midnight and I'm freaking tired. That means it is past my bedtime and I've got some sleep to catch up on. I'm going to go work on that.