January 25, 2016

 I'm getting worse at waking up in the morning. My alarm goes off at six o'clock and I immediately reset it to seven o'clock. I need to start waking up and exercising. I think that will do wonders for not only my physical health but also my mental health.

Today there weren't any tests scheduled but there are still a lot of random kids that need to test so I had a couple in the morning and several in the afternoon. Thankfully this is the last week. And then in a few more weeks or so the first bit of state assessments start. Second semester is awesome.

This morning I helped with literacy centers in both kindergarten classes. In both I ran groups I usually don't so that made things interesting. I learned that some kindergarteners get the concept of a word search and some do not even kind of get it. One kid was circling all over the place but never an actual word. Another kid was circling individual letters to make a word, even though these letters weren't anywhere close to each other. It was interesting.

This afternoon I had a conversation with the fifth grade teacher about sleep schedules and sleep aides, as well as a long conversation about Nintendo 64 games and old computer games. I learned that she used to play everyday after school when she was a kid. That is pretty cool. It is rare that I get to talk to people about video games and have them actually know what I'm talking about. She was a big fan of Beetle Adventure Racing and I forgot to ask if it was a coincidence that later in life she drove a Beetle. She also never knew about paintball mode and big head mode in GoldenEye 007. Big head mode alone was worth the price of admission. Now all I want to do is plug my Nintendo 64 in and play all the games. Maybe someday when I catch up on school stuff.

I finally started updating my spreadsheets today. That's going to be fun.

After work I went and got my haircut before going home. And the rest of the night was kind of a pointless. I watched a video for class and claimed a company that I have to evaluate for my other class. So there's that, but I could have done more. I've just been out of it most of the night. I blame lack of sleep last night. I'm hoping it's just being tired. Tomorrow I'll read a chapter and maybe do one of the discussion posts for this week. That sounds a bit lofty but we'll see.