It was another slow day at work. I
did things that I now forget and the rest was pretty much the same
old thing. I helped one of the resource teachers with her
spreadsheets again. I ended up having her send them to me so next
week I can format them and make them look better.
This afternoon one of the third
grade teachers dropped half her class off in the lab to take reading
tests and left me to write down the scores. They were horrible the
second she walked out the door. I tried several times to get them to
settle down and stop talking but I was ignored. I wrote a note to
the teacher and sent it back with the first kid who finished. The
level of disrespect was on par with a lab full of kindergarteners at
the beginning of the year. The teacher stopped by later to apologize
but I don't know if there were consequences for the kids. She's the
strict teacher so I would think so but I don't know.
I was talking with the fifth grade
teacher when her class was in the lab and learned of near disaster.
Her boyfriend is graduating tomorrow and he is borrowing her
graduation gown. She graduated several years ago and put the gown
back in the box afterward so it was really wrinkly. She hung it up
in the bathroom to see if the shower steam would help but it didn't
so she tried the steamer on her iron. I can't remember exactly what
happened but it involved getting a little too close with the iron and
melting a small hole in the front of the gown. She was able to sew
it but said it now looks like there is a little kink in it. And it
is still wrinkly so we discussed strategies for getting them out. We
also talked about school stuff and she said that after putting in a
lot of work to finish all her assignments that she was given at the
end of the semester, she got another one this week. It really seems
like the professors forgot they were supposed to be giving out
assignments.
In my free time I worked on some
cross stitch stuff with my new Gimp brush. Exciting stuff.
After work I went to Hobby Lobby to
get fabric for the back of the embroidery hoops. When I got home I
didn't really do much before dinner. My dinner included a frosty and
the new cheesy fries from Wendy's. The fries were interesting but I
don't know that I would try them again.
Tonight I tested a cross stitching
setup that would allow me to record the process. I really wanted to
use my phone as a webcam because of the superior quality but it
wasn't working out. I want to stream it so I don't have to worry
about taking up space on my computer. Until later when I download
the recordings and edit them. Maybe that doesn't make sense but I'm
worried about how much space the raw recordings would take up and
it's fun figuring out the streaming thing.
I switched over to my webcam and it
actually worked out pretty well with the setup I made. The quality
isn't as good but I think it is passable. And the setup. It
involves two stacks of DVDs on either side of my cutting mat with a
piece of wood trim to hang my webcam from. When I was trying it with
my phone I used two pieces of trim to lay my phone on. It's very
MacGyver'ed but it works pretty well. At least when it comes to
visibility when I'm not working on the cross stitch. We'll see how
it looks when I'm actually stitching.
I also played a little Black
Ops 3 tonight because it is a
double XP, 24/7 Nuketown weekend. So not really 24/7 but whatever.
It has been awhile since I've played and it was the first time I have
played with my new mouse. It didn't go well. Some of it was lag,
some of it was the mouse, and some of it was just be being awful at
the game. I ranked up a couple times though so it was alright. I'll
have to try it again tomorrow.
Speaking of tomorrow, I want to play
some video games, read a book, and cross stitch. All of the
embroidery hoops I got had sticky labels on them so I used Goo Gone
to clean off the residue. I also continued rubbing it all around the
outside of the hoop so it had an even consistency. It actually made
them look a lot nicer. I won't get to the point of putting the cross
stitch in the hoop tomorrow because I still need to wash the owl I've
already finished and pin it out to dry. So maybe washing the
finished owl and starting a new owl for my sister will be on the
agenda.
And one last thing, speaking of my
sister. As a thank you for helping with the bed the other day she
dropped off two homemade loafs of bread. Freaking delicious. I had
two pieces when I got home and I could probably eat an entire loaf in
one sitting. She said it is also good as toast so I'll have to try
that out.
Alight. No more things. It's
almost 1:30AM and I need to go to bed.
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