May 9, 2016

 There aren't any scheduled tests in the lab this week but there are still some kids that need to finish so I had several of them in the lab throughout the day. We're getting closer to being done.

This morning I printed out all of the MAP reports for the classes who have completely finished testing, which is most of them. I think there might be three classes that are still finishing up. I really need to get started filling out my spreadsheets. I would usually start that as I got the scores but now that I don't write them down I have kind of gotten out of the practice. The end of the year has really crept up on me. There are just over two weeks of school left, which just sounds ridiculous.

I worked on slides for the slideshow today and I finished all of the ones for the kids who I have pictures for. I need to come up with a title slide and make the post-credits slides for the retiring sixth grade teacher. I also need to start dumping slides into my video editing program and get that ball rolling.

I ended up not volunteering at the library after work because the PR lady had a meeting. She emailed to tell me this and mentioned the job openings again and I told her I had my resume and application ready to go. I asked her where I should take it because when I took my volunteer application to the main desk they acted like they weren't entirely sure what to do with it. She told me to take it up to the guy at the administration desk and said he would be expecting me. So after work I stopped by and gave him my resume and application, which he then walked back to the director. The head of the adult services department, who is also the mother of a kid at the school I work at, wasn't there today but the PR lady said she was going to start reviewing applications soon.

Tonight I added several quotes to my notebook and I started working on my Spencerian penmanship. I am using the Platinum Preppy because it has an extra-fine nib and I want to keep the lines thin. I might also use the 0.25 pen I have because that would be even thinner. I started by reading some of the theory book but when it got into describing how to write the lowercase letters I stopped and moved over to the copybooks. Or the printed version of the copybooks that I made. I need to work on the individual lines first, before I move on to actual letters.

I did a decent job at drawing the first line and got better as I went. I'm trying to hold my pen in the suggested manner, which is taking a bit to get used to. When I try to actually write words while holding the pen like that I have very poor control over it and my writing looks worse than it does already. But I'm only on the first line, so I'm going to stick with it.

Now I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow I'm going to do things. Sounds like a pretty good plan.