Chaos weekend. Grades are done though. Last progress report of the school year. Hallelujah. Today is the day all the kids panic because they realize what their grades are and that they didn’t do anything in time to bring them up. Ah well. Learning experience. I can say it every day and it falls on mostly deaf ears. Moving on.
Today and tomorrow are lab days; not preferred to have them run right next to each other, and there’s a fire drill or something today I think that wasn’t on my list of things to avoid, so we’re gonna figure that out, but with a doc appointment Wednesday and some portrait thing for all of 8th grade on Thursday, there was really no way around it. Ah well. We survive.
I did do some art stuff this weekend. Friday afternoon, I did some clay stuff, getting the figure up on the world and making it look more worldlike, although the continents are a little wiggy.
I draw them wiggy too, so I’m OK with it.
The butt sticks out too much. Hopefully I can fix that. It looks good from the back, but the side view is a bit much. I also glazed this…
I was overthinking it. It’s not precious. I can always make another one with the 17 million ideas rambling around my head. I could make hundreds of them if I wanted. Or not.
I started tracing the big crones quilt. Nova was watching…perturbed by the big paper coming over the couch.
She’s scared by the weirdest things.
When she was little, she’d do everything she could to go under. I’d have to wait for them both to be sleeping to be able to trace anything.
I graded a good chunk of Saturday. It wasn’t fun. I don’t recommend it. I’m not really planned for this week yet either. Saturday’s dinner drawing.
It was also trivia night, but we sucked at that. Mostly. We weren’t planning on trivia night. It just happened while we were there.
Ah, grading middle-school boy work.
Nice udders.
Need more milkweed…
Tried to get some a week ago but it was hella expensive.
My haul from the neighbor kids throwing fruit into my yard.
There was another tangerine, but it was deep in a bush, so I left it.
I had an art meeting yesterday and they had this cool flower…
Fascinating things, plants. Finished stitching this during the meeting.
One more house to go.
OK. I need to get out of here. Construction people are here to tear up the outside of the house where it leaked. Fun times. Teaching gravitational pull today, plus apparently another lockdown drill? Ugh. I’m really done with school. I finished making all my test review docs yesterday. Just need to check them and then get them printed, do sub plans, post all the crap for this week, decide what the sub can actually do, then write an academic question. Plus clay and book club. I think. Ugh. Did I say ugh? I did.
Kathy Nida 