Monday, October 26, 2015

October 26, 2015

 I went to bed late last night and it took me forever to fall asleep. I got maybe five hours of sleep so that was great.

This morning we had our evacuation drill. The last couple of years I have been driving down to our evacuation point with the librarian and a few other people to help set up. This year I got a yellow vest and an intersection to block off while the kids crossed. This was the street the church was on that we were evacuating to, which was a pretty decent walk from the school, so I ended up getting a ride with the librarian again because I'm lazy.

I had two observations about the evacuation, both related to the fact that it is spirit week at school and today was pajama day. The first, the library clerk, who is an older lady, gets really into spirit week and dressing up for things in general. Today she was wearing her pajamas, a green robe, and her hair was messed up. She rode with us to the church and I mentioned that it kind of looked like we had abducted her from somewhere because none of the rest of us in the car had participated in pajama day. The second, so many of the kids were in pajamas, and with them all walking along the sidewalk to the church, it looked like the orphanage had burned down in the middle of the night.

I ended up only having one class in the lab throughout the entire day. That made for a boring day. I fixed the printer in the SPED lab but that was about it for productivity. I spent a lot of time looking at reviews for office chairs. I switch back and forth between two right now, one that is really old but has held up well, and the other I got for my birthday a few years ago. I kind of want to invest a little more money and get one that is built to be sat in for long periods of time, because I spend a lot of time at my computer. They have “gaming” ones now that are pricey but are supposed to be really comfortable. The main selling points for me are that you can rock back really far, which I like, and also recline the back almost horizontal. I probably won't buy a new chair any time soon because I'm also still interested in getting a sewing machine, but it is fun to look.

We had an assembly this afternoon with the local college's women's tennis team, with a surprise appearance from the mascot. The head coach, who's kid goes to our school, got a grant for our school to get tennis equipment so this was the kickoff to a week-long tennis unit in PE. The most interesting thing about the tennis team was that other than the assistant coach and one of the players, all the other players and the main coach were from different countries. Interesting.

For the rest of the afternoon, with no classes showing up to the lab, I looked for articles for my research paper. I found some good ones, and some that don't relate to my paper but I saved because I want to read them later.


On my way home I stopped by Target to get a few things. Then I didn't really do anything the rest of the night. I had lofty goals of watching the hour-long webinar and summarizing it for class but I'm freaking tired after so little sleep last night. So that's on my list of things for tomorrow. It's not quite nine o'clock now but I'm struggling to stay awake. Tomorrow will be better.

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