Saturday, October 21, 2017

Saturday: life

I'm still dealing with this cold.  (Or allergies?  I didn't think I'm allergic to anything, but it's hard to tell.)  Yesterday and today have been better than earlier in the week, but I'm still wiped out.

That being said, a lot of stuff did get done today.  Maybe that's because our house cleaner came and she did a lot of the work.  Well, Ben and I did some work too.  Legos got cleaned up, the sprinklers were blown out, and paperwork done.

I leave you with this picture of Joshua.  It's hard to tell, but he's wearing two pairs of sunglasses and thought it was hilarious.


Friday, October 20, 2017

Friday: warm day

 It was a warm day out, so when we got home from picking Isaac up from school we did some outside stuff.  I got out Isaac's old Lego costume, which he'll be wearing again, so that we could update the color.  It will be silver.  We redid some of the tape around the holes and primed it.  We also found that the nubs we used weren't holding the primer very well, so we made some new ones.

While picking Isaac up two people said, "good bye Isaac!"  He still doesn't know anyone's names, but it was nice to see that people are saying goodbye to him.

We got his school picture earlier this week...

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Thursday: a talk

Today I had a talk with my students.

You know, the college students?

I talked to them about plagiarism.  What it looks like.  How they can avoid it.  Why they should avoid it.  Ahh, life skills.  I suppose my classroom is as good as any.

We had this talk because I've had about double the number of incidents (some reportable, some not) of a normal semester and we're only half way through it.  Hopefully this will encourage people to stop trying to take the easy way out.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Tuesday: work

Work.  Sometimes the students just make me want to shake my head and ask "why?"

(I had a bit of a rant written, but decided that it wasn't quite so appropriate.  Normal teacher complaints...nothing special.)

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Sunday: thought too soon

Last week I noticed that several students had sniffles.  I thought to myself, "oh, I'm not sick.  That's really nice."

Today I noticed that both kids had some sniffles.

Tonight I have some sniffles.  Bother.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Telepuzzle

A while back a friend and I did a puzzle together.  I have fond memories of puzzle nights in NY, and thought it could be fun to do a puzzle with her too.

The problem?  She lives in Florida.

The solution?  We each got a copy of the puzzle and worked on it at the same time with google chat.  So while we weren't able to see each other, we still could commiserate on the hard parts of the puzzle or be excited about the weird things in the puzzle.

I managed to finish mine just a few days ago.  I had lost one piece.  By the time I found it a day or so later, I had already covered up the puzzle with something else.  I uncovered it a few days ago and finished it. 


It was a lot of fun and worked a lot better than I was expecting.