I'm tired.
At work today I caught up on my spreadsheets, mainly getting all the
formulas in order so the numbers at the bottom show up correctly.
The tests that need to be deleted will hopefully happen soon so I can
print off all the reports. Except for the two kids that still need
to finish. The teacher, who is not only new this year but this is
also her first year teaching, emailed me at the end of the day and
said that things got hectic today which is why she didn't send them
down. She suggested tomorrow afternoon when kindergarten will be in
the lab and then a couple times on Friday. I replied that she should
send them whenever she can and that the test is kind of a priority
when it is this close to the end of the window because if they don't
finish it Compass Learning won't be updated until the new year and
their parents won't get an updated report at conferences. She seems
a little too laid back about the whole thing. Or maybe I'm just
uptight about it.
When I didn't have classes in the lab I worked on things for
teachers. I made a change to a booklet I made for the resource
teacher last year because she needed it tweaked a little bit. I
remembered that I took pictures of the kids in one of the
kindergarten class yesterday so I could make small pictures for the
teacher to use for various things. So I edited those and made her a
page with all the pictures.
My favorite project of the day was making a sign for the librarian.
She is setting up a display or something for graphic novels and asked
if I could make her a sign that said “graphic novels” on it. I
already had a couple fonts from when I made my superhero metadata
presentation last year so I was good to go. I did check online and
downloaded a few more font options but I ended up going with the same
one I used for my presentation. To give myself a little more room to
work with I used the Legal size paper instead of the regular 8.5x11,
which I think was a good choice. Then I typed up “GRAPHIC NOVELS”,
which was probably the easiest part. The hard part was making it
look interesting.
Originally I was thinking about a crazy spiked outline like they use
for sound effects words. I tried all sorts of different combos but
they all kind of sucked. Then I got back into the frame of mind my
superhero presentation and decided I wanted to make the sign look
like a single panel on a page. For the background I looked up
graphic novels for children and arranged their covers all over the
page. Leaving them like that would have been too distracting so I
made a box, filled it with white, and set the transparency pretty
low, so you could still see what was going on but the colors were
fairly muted. I wanted a clean white border around the outside so I
created a box in Publisher the size of my page and gave it a really
thick white border, which covered up all of the book covers around
the edge of the page. Then I added a slightly smaller box with a
thick black border to give it the panel look. I finished by bringing
back the text, which I made three copies of to make a top blue layer,
a middle green layer, and a bottom black layer. I was pretty happy
with it. When I went across the hall I could find any white paper so
I went with tan, which may have actually worked out better. When I
gave it to the librarian she really liked it, so mission
accomplished.
There was a magic show assembly this afternoon but I forgot all about
it. Turns out that was the reason the first grade class never showed
up to the lab. I ended up spending that time working on the
kindergarten pictures and listening to a Harry Potter audiobook,
so at least I was productive.
After school I got Chipotle and my Powerball ticket. My burrito was
decent but nothing amazing. I showed some good videos after dinner,
at least in my opinion, and then I spent a good chunk of the rest of
the night reading an article. Or rather a textbook chapter in the
form of a PDF. I'm not a fan of reading long documents on the
computer. I don't even like reading short documents on the computer.
And this week all the metadata reading is electronic. I'm not a
fan. And I still have one more article to read, which is thirty-two
pages long. Good grief. I tried to start it tonight but my eyes
weren't having it.
Tomorrow morning I want to maybe leave the house a little early so I
can go down the the Treasurer's office and pick up my vehicle
registration. I paid it online, and switched my address, but
apparently switching your address online doesn't actually work. This
meant the post office tried to deliver it to my old address and it
bounced back. There was a message today from a lady explaining the
whole situation, and saying that she had changed my address for me,
but that I needed to come pick up my registration. And this was the
last day of the month. So it would be nice if I could pick it up
before work, not only to avoid a crowd, but also avoid getting in
trouble for having an out of date registration, even though I paid on
time. It probably won't make that much of a difference if I got
after work but it would be nice to get it over with.
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