September 29, 2015

 In exciting news, I have a new health insurance card. This was the first year I could sign up for health insurance at work, which saves me a lot of money each month. The only problem was after I signed up for it I didn't hear anything about it. I knew coverage started on the first of October but that was about it. I stopped paying my current insurance so it would cover me through September (assuming you pay a month in advance) but not making the next payment meant my coverage would be canceled. I could have paid, just to be safe, but I decided to trust in the school district and it turns out that was a wise choice. The cards showed up yesterday. Better almost late than never.

Today was fairly boring. I had classes in the lab and had the occasional kids finishing up tests. When I wasn't engaged in those activities I worked on my spreadsheets, I sent off a list of kids who needed tests deleted, and I downloaded reports for classes who were completely done with testing. I also helped the ELL lady with some laptop and printer things. There is a small room in the back of the computer lab that for the past three years was used by math enrichment / Boys and Girls Club. This year it started out being used by Boys and Girls Club and the reading lady but yesterday they were moved up to the third floor and the ELL lady was moved in. This year we have eighteen kids in need of her assistance (last year we had five) and they have been working in the hallway at a small table since the beginning of school. Now they have a proper little space.

There are probably other things I could write about, like talking to the superintendent when he stopped by the lab, or the job of kindergarteners being back in the lab because testing is over, but I'm tired, so lets move on.

Tonight I read stuff for class. Three articles to be more precise. And I've got two more to read so I can make my discussion post for this week. I also have reading for my collection development class but I don't have a discussion post for that class so I decided to prioritize. I would like to finish the two metadata articles tomorrow but I think they're both long so we'll see. Maybe I can get some reading done at work. Today it seemed like whenever I had any free time a small group of kids would come in to use the computers. I remember to agreeing to some of that but I don't actually remember the schedule for it and the kids don't either because they never know when they're supposed to leave. I should get that figured out.

So yeah, tomorrow. More work on spreadsheets, maybe get the last two kids to finish their tests, maybe some reading. Then Chipotle night and more reading. Sounds like a fun day.