I went to bed a little before 9:30PM last night. I woke up some time
later and was afraid to look at the clock because it felt like I had
been asleep for a really long time and I was worried that it would
say 5:00AM. It made me so happy when it was only 2:00AM. I had so
much more sleep to look forward to.
I didn't get any schoolwork done at work today because my plate
managed to fill up. I had several classes in the lab, spread out
through the day so I didn't have too much free time. And that time
was spent redesigning a layout for Dolch word cards. Last year I cut
out hundreds (or thousands) of these cards after printing them all
out on colored cardstock. It was a pain. I think after that I made
a new layout where all the cards were touching, so in the future I
would only have to make one cut in between the cards to separate
them. The design I printed out had gaps, which required two cuts in
between the cards. That's just more work. I was looking at that new
design this year and figured if I made the cards slightly smaller I
could get ten cards on a page instead of just eight. So that's what
I did. That ended up saving me five sheets of paper. Not bad.
Also last year, near the end of the year, I scanned a couple books
for the new reading program that we're using this year. I put the
PDFs on the faculty drive so when teachers need the worksheets they
can just open the PDFs and print them off, instead of having to go
copy them. Turns out those books were for the younger grades and one
of the fourth grade teachers asked me if I could scan the two books
the older grades use. I got a brief start on that today.
I made another sign for the lab wall that says “Do NOT
turn off the monitors”, which is set inside a clipart monitor and
has an orange construction paper border. It looks pretty cool. I
picked a good font. The only problem is that you can't look too
closely because the border isn't entirely even. The paper cutter
doesn't cut very straight and I'm pretty sure not much care is put in
at the factory to make sure construction paper is cut at
right-angles. Kind of frustrating. We'll see if anyone pays
attention to the sign. I'm tired of coming in and having five
monitors turned off instead of the computer itself. It is annoying
but it also presents a problem over the weekend when sheets are put
over the computers. If the sheet completely covers the tower of a
computer that has been mistakenly left one it creates a pretty hot
situation.
After school I added printers to the gifted teacher's laptop and
tablet. They all stopped working after the reboot, like they did for
everyone, so I showed her how to add them with the IP address. She
paid me with a PayDay candy bar, even though I don't eat candy, but a
lot of people don't know that and I don't want to be the dick who
turns down a gift. So I took the candy bar. Later tonight I
realized I had no idea where that candy bar ended up. I left work
less than five minutes after receiving the candy bar and I have no
idea what I did with it. I am assuming I set it down to put it down
to put some papers back in a folder, and then promptly forgot about
it. We'll see if it is still wherever I put it when I get to work
tomorrow.
I stopped at Target on the way home to see if I could find a grill
brush for my dad's birthday. I couldn't. There were other things I
needed at Target but I was kind of annoyed by the brush thing so I
left. I'll go back later.
For my dad's birthday I went over to his house for dinner, which my
sister was making so he didn't have to cook. She made some chicken
thing for everyone else and she made fake chicken fajitas for me.
They were really good. I also had salad and watermelon. Desert was
a little bit of strawberry ice cream. Chocolate is a classic but I
think strawberry is my favorite. I need to stop eating so much ice
cream though because I'm beginning to worry about my calcium intake.
After dinner and birthday cards we spent a lot of time just sitting
around and talking.
I had planned on getting a lot of reading done today to make up for
last night but I didn't leave my dad's house until after 9:30PM and I
have been tired since at least seven o'clock. So no reading today.
Definitely tomorrow. I need to come up with my discussion post stuff
for this week by Thursday and at the moment I've falling behind.
Tomorrow I will get things done at work, eat some Chipotle for
dinner, and get a lot of reading done for school. I've got
productive plans.
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