Well. It’s Friday. And some little widget at school got me sick. Also I chose to have a flu/COVID shot yesterday, thinking I might not be sick. Might not have been the best choice, but I’d already rescheduled once. I have another doc appointment today that was scheduled months ago. I’m pretty sure if I try to reschedule now, they’ll charge me…we’ll see how I feel I guess. I can always mask…but she does need to look at my face. Sigh. I don’t have time to be sick. Or the energy for that matter.
Hopefully it’ll be done with me quickly. I have a lot of work and art stuff to do this weekend.
Artwise, I’m in the stitchdown phase…
This is last night…
I don’t have a lot left to do…enough not to do it last night, but…the plan is to have this pinbasted and start quilting tomorrow. I do have a meeting tomorrow and a ton of grading to do (when does that ever change?)…and I’m sick. So there’s that. But it will get done. Possibly in between naps.
Today at school will be a shitshow. Lots of kids flailing on roller coaster build, so we’re simplifying. I’m setting up a few models today around the room, and will let one group at a time use each of them. They take too long to build (it’s been four days of it y’all; I’m out) and require too much maintenance to not do stupid stuff. I need them to get everything done today so we can finish this project and test on Monday. The next unit has to be done before Thanksgiving Break, so we are limited in time. We moved the test partially because there was supposed to be some drill during half of one class period today, so that was my original take…move the test; they won’t have time. And I emailed admin, and then another admin. Finally got an answer last night that no, the drill one admin said was happening was not. Another one was happening next week. The lack of communication is lovely. Really. A pleasure. Sigh. Also the info that finally came at 8 PM last night? From a Monday question? Whatever. I know they’re like, “It’s not a big deal.”, but it is if you are picking days to have a test based on their schedule.
Oh yeah, I forgot this…
It’s OK. It’s a silent letter. Those are hard. But if you do British English slang at all, oh my. I laughed anyway. Because I am a child. I ran into a student and parent last night, a parent I’d been trying to reach about promotion and attendance and grades. It was a nice trip to the grocery store. That kid. Seriously. Get it together and come to school.
ANYWAY. So today will be more controlled chaos (still chaos) with some direct instruction. Followed by a doc appointment I might reschedule. Some lying around and feeling sick. Some grading. Some stitchdown. Hopefully ALL the stitchdown. And piece a backing plus wash the batting. It’s cooler today again…a little every day…but then remnants of a hurricane starting Saturday night…rain, finally, but perhaps too much of it. Of course.
