February 26, 2016

This morning there was one test. The sixth graders returned and again a large chunk of them didn't finish. They started with the Math test, which all but one of them finished, and then went back to the writing from yesterday. A few finished the writing but instead of having them stay until they finished we had to stop for an assembly. There's always next week.

The rest of my day was normal. I had classes in the lab and I edited computers. I also updated the gifted teacher's tablet and laptop. It wasn't a terribly exciting day.

The other day I rediscovered the old Type-Right II's at the front of the computer lab and brought batteries in so I could play with one of them. This afternoon I showed it to one of the fifth grade teachers because we occasionally have typing test races. When she started trying one of the lessons a couple kids came over to watch and by the end of it all but one or two of her kids was huddled around, fascinated by this. These kids hate Type to Learn 4 but are completely enamored by a keyboard with a calculator screen from the 90s. It was interesting.

Tonight I went to the library book sale with my mom and sister. I think it was bigger than previous years because they opened up a new space right off the regular room, rather than having it spread out around the second floor. Based on the tour I went on a few months ago, I believe that new space will someday be the teen library, once the library has the money to build it. The recently renovated and built a nice children's library area and while doing that they built the second floor area because it was cheaper to build it while everything else was going on than to wait until later and add it on. I got way too many books. And I won't be able to read any of them for awhile. I got a lot of craft books about cross stitch, needlpoint, quilting, and woodworking. I also got a few random young adult books, a quote dictionary, a slang and colloquialism dictionary, and a biography. The best books by far was a book that I got with no intention of actually reading it. I saw the title and had to pick it up because I wasn't sure what I was seeing actually existed in reality. Then I read the synopsis on the back and immediately dropped it in my bag. The title, Fat Hoochie Prom Queen. And the first bit of the synopsis:

"Margarita "Madge" Diaz is fat, foxy, and fabulous. She loves herself, and is adored by almost everyone else...except queen bee/student-body president Bridget Benson. These two girls have a history that's uglier than a drag queen after last call."

After the book sale we grabbed Sonic for dinner and after dinner we went through our bags of books. It's hard to be an average price of just over a dollar a book. And it's going to a good cause.

I didn't really accomplish anything the rest of the night. Tomorrow will hopefully be consumed with schoolwork. I need to write another entry about new-to-me tech for libraries. Last time I wrote about a website that allows people, or libraries, to easily create a simple mobile website. I am thinking this time I might write about 3D printers. I've been thinking about it throughout the week and nothing else is coming to mind. I emailed the same guy I partnered with last time to see if he wanted to partner on next week's assignment. Fingers crossed on that. I think there is another assignment for that class that I need to start working on as well.

There's just a lot of stuff creeping up and my anxiety level is rising. The book sale tonight was a good way to take my mind off of it for a bit but it'll hit me again tomorrow morning. We'll see how long it takes to convince myself to get out of bed in the morning.