Well, I have to tell you I did not do anything special on Labor Day. I spend the day playing catch up with various tasks and working on my PhD. I got up and worked in the morning on Chapter 3 of the paper and then ended up falling asleep on the couch for a little bit. I hate doing that because I feel lazy when I waste part of the day but I really do need the rest so it was not a bad thing. I ended up laying with Squeak the majority of the day as well and watching The Hobbit, part 1 and 2.
Week at School
School this was CrAzY!!! Each day this week I started at 6:15 except Friday because I stopped to pick up bagels for the math department, and ended no earlier than 8:15 pm. It has just been one thing after another this week to get tasks done. I have wanted to get into classrooms but every time I went to get out someone grabbed me and needed something. Lesson learned - take the iPad with me when I go to morning duty and go from there so no one knows where I am and I can see some awesome teaching and spend time with students. I have started the furniture and technology inventory as well in the evening as well so that has taken some time. This involves going in and out of classrooms to look at various items because we moved teachers this summer. It seems a lot of items that were supposed to be in one room got moved to another room and those that left the school passed on their items to other teachers therefore moving their location, so now I have to go through the school and re-inventory.
On Friday we were awarded an additional 1.0 FTE at North to help balance classes since we are 32 students over in enrollment. This completely took over the day because this allowed us to add 5 sections of classes and then we are collapsing three, using our last .2 and then "buying" a .2 in order to add 10 sections of classes. So at 11:00 am we had to go out and talk with 10 teachers to explain what was about to happen to their class if we collapsed it, who needed extra sections and what other items we were changing. That evening Aeries was shut down at 7:00 pm so we had to finish and come back on Saturday.
On the way home I went by the Football game at Heritage to watch the Huskies play. We did not do well but it is early in the season and Heritage was CIF champs last year so there is really no shame in losing this game. It was a great chance to just relax with some others and watch our students have fun.
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Well today was a work day and fun day. I got up early and had to have my car at the VW dealership for the oil change and 20,000 mile check today. I dropped it off at 8:15 am and had a friend pick me up. It was a relaxing morning as we grabbed breakfast and was able to sit and talk to catch up with what has been going on in our lives. Anyone who knows me knows how much my friendships mean to me, especially the ones that I have had for a number of years so it was good to catch up. I had to be at work at 11:30 am to work on getting in the Employee Benefits Application (EBA) for the 10 sections we are doing and Ali met me to put in the 10 sections in the Master Schedule so the guidance counselors can start moving students and balancing classes on Monday morning.
At 4:00 pm Dee came and picked me up and we headed to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater for the Dave Matthews Band Concert. We ended up eating at Flame Broiler and walking over to the theater which was across the street. While there was a lot of people there it was not crazy! We got in line and they eventually let us in to make our way down to the Amphitheater. We made our way to the lawn where are seats were and found a spot near the fence to sit, relax and listen to great music. Keri and Shawn were at the concert as well and came to join us from their seats on the lawn to hang out. Shawn and Keri even brought me a small gift for the concert, a mini-bottle. LOL!!!!!!
We actually had two shows going on at the same time. The actual DMB concert and the couple in front of us who were so drunk they could not stand and were falling all over the place. It was hilarious to see them stagger. The poor guy was so enamored with his girlfriend he continued to literally take his shirt off and put it on again and again as he continued to climb on her as they laid on the grass. Now, I am making this the G rated version because I don't know who reads this but I will stay that people were walking by and taking picture of them so you can basically use your imagination and I will leave it at that.
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