August 19, 2015

Another successful day of waking up and running on the elliptical. We'll see if I can finish off the week. I'm really missing sleep, especially by the time I get home from work.

It was 59 degrees this morning so I drove to work with the windows down and it felt great. It was only 75 degrees after work so I was again able to drive with the windows down. If only August could always be this nice.

A big chunk of my day was spent doing tedious things on the computer. I got all the kids divided into classes for Compass Learning and Type To Learn. It was a little more tedious with Type To Learn because we have a lot of new kids this year and if they transferred from within the district I had to go through each of the other schools until I found the kid and then edit their information to bring them to our school. It would be nice if there was a global search but there isn't. I managed to get it all done though. Near the end of the day I made seating charts for the kindergarten classes and started working on MAP spreadsheets. MAP testing is still in the future but it would be nice to get all the spreadsheets set up now so I don't have to waste time doing it later.

Throughout the day I had classes come to the lab. There were a couple issues logging in but I think all but one kid managed it. I need to look into that one, too, because I tried several things and nothing worked. For most of the classes logging in was the main goal so when that was successful they got to play on CoolMath, and the others got to do whatever they wanted inside Compass Learning. It was all pretty laid back.

After work I went and got Chipotle and a Powerball ticket before going home. I went the scenic route for the Powerball ticket because I forgot all about it until I was almost home. I had good music and the weather was nice so I wasn't complaining.

When I got home there wasn't that much time before dinner and I was tired and in no way motivated to do anything school-related, so I didn't. My burrito was good tonight, which was nice. I only had two videos to show after dinner but they were good and informative. Quality over quantity. After dinner I read two chapters in my metadata textbook. Slowly. It was a struggle, not necessarily based on subject matter, mainly because I was tired and textbooks exacerbate that feeling. But I finished two chapters so I'm happy. Happyish, at least.

It's 10:30PM and I think I'm going to go to bed. Although I am tired I fear it is one of those that will leave me wide awake when my head hits the pillow. I hate when my body does that to me. Only one way to find out if my hunch is correct.