FRIDAY.

Time is passing so much more quickly than it was for the first week. Of course, this was a four day week...

We can't buy a snow day, we keep getting close, and then failing. Just enough nasty cold weather that I can't take the kids outside during their recess time. They are so impossible and annoying when they are cooped up in the room- an old science lab. They find the loudest games in the world, and they bother me the whole time. I usually try to sneak in a little bit of grading during that time. I've been trying to assume more of the administrative tasks this week. I hate them, but I really need some experience with them to help me learn how to better manage the massive paperwork burden. I'm finding myself doing a lot of work like counting, tallying, averaging, recording, etc. When I hear those gerunds, only one thing comes to mind: this is the kind of work a computer should be doing. I'm no coder, but seriously, theres got to be a better way to do this. I've got a couple friends in IT who might be able to help me with this.

Buying the eee PC is turning into a watershed event in my life. It's become attached to my arm. Everything computer related that I need to do, I can do immediately. I use a password manager so that I don't have to waste time logging in to anything, or remembering petty things like that. I use google calender to manage my schedule, and it's alerting me of even little things like picking up my class from the gym.
And they're so cheap that I might be able to write a grant and get one in every student's hand before long.
I suppose that comes after learning how to plan a week worth of class...