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May. 18th, 2022 11:30 pmToday was...okay.
I did not do all my ToDos and get a die that way, but I did do plenty of dailies and get one of those dice. So moving along steadily and also have earned my secret goal for this week of "earn five dice in the same week!"
I am...very unlikely to get the calendar emptied while Tuesday is visiting next, since that will likely be quite soon and I have thirteen boxen to go, which is _at minimum_ a very stressful and intense four days (and I don't think I can sustain that). More likely it's at least two weeks.
I mean, honestly today was pretty good in terms of doing things and getting some things done and being at least a little productive, but it was also that weird sort of draining that implies I am generally exhausted and don't want to be getting things done any longer. I played a _lot_ of phone games, and would like to play more. Or rather, I wouldn't actually like that, but it's the current brain-itch.
I am interested to find out if I can even earn one die tomorrow --I suspect that I get mini-burnt-out at the end of every week (not aided by my horrible schedule this year that puts Thursday and Friday as my hardest days at school. At least the rest of this week should be relatively mellow in terms of accomplishing things, which is to say, there's not a lot to force the students to do and we can all be a little more chill than usual.)
But I washed my hair and cleaned up under my desk (and found Gwent1's missing d4, which went scattering across and off the desk a few weeks ago --luckily she hasn't needed it much), both of which have been hanging out longterm on my todo list. And I picked up my meds from the pharmacy, and did 2.5 pull-ups and three sets of 11 pushups. I had one student actually come to the bonus office hours I was able to offer, and we got some good work done and chatted about his life and future plans -he wants to be a pilot which I 100% support and have no idea how to actually give advice for. How's the Air Force feel about letting young men from Afghanistan fly their planes?
I also played a _lot_ of dumb phone games. I alsoalso finished book 4 of the Bloody Jack series. So all told, things are going well? I think? On balance better good than bad? Personally, of course, on a global scale things are shit.
(On a micro scale, it is _shit_ that last week had emails being all "oh no covid cases are on the rise, be wary" and this week has "appreciation for teachers! come eat pizza and ice cream sammiches with your colleagues here inside!" I am well aware that 3/15 of the English-learner-teacher department is out right now with the 'ronis, so absolutely not taking my mask off around most people, nope.
Luckily former-favourite-student-now-above-average-coworker was willing to come hang with me outside and chat, and we were quickly joined by favourite-coworker and one of the new math department folk. It was a nice little group and felt much better eating out there, well spaced, than indoors.)
Anyways, that's about all I've got. Tomorrow's big todo item is to try calling the department of ed to ask some check-in questions. I am...not really looking forward to it, but it is a critical step in the awful mission I don't want to talk about. I'm being cryptic because this is something I'm bad at, and I hate talking about things I'm bad at.
I hope you have a good day!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: My DnD character! She's a ranger and a weaver/knitter/fiber-artist/sheep-herd. She recently started to have magic and it's weird, she feels weird about it. Her party has a magic-eating plant and we're spending a lot of time talking about ethics. She has a staff and enjoys whacking the fuck out of things with it. Like all my DnD characters, she is an idealized version of who I want to be, which is to say, a himbo2. She's also a lesbian, because all my characters3 are, for whatever weird reason, but that doesn't come up much.
2: I find it irritating that himbo and bimbo have different connotations, and I _definitely_ want the "dumb but well meaning and really kind" ones.
3: Well, her and fictional!Sor from the Snowtown shared universe. So two lesbians.
I did not do all my ToDos and get a die that way, but I did do plenty of dailies and get one of those dice. So moving along steadily and also have earned my secret goal for this week of "earn five dice in the same week!"
I am...very unlikely to get the calendar emptied while Tuesday is visiting next, since that will likely be quite soon and I have thirteen boxen to go, which is _at minimum_ a very stressful and intense four days (and I don't think I can sustain that). More likely it's at least two weeks.
I mean, honestly today was pretty good in terms of doing things and getting some things done and being at least a little productive, but it was also that weird sort of draining that implies I am generally exhausted and don't want to be getting things done any longer. I played a _lot_ of phone games, and would like to play more. Or rather, I wouldn't actually like that, but it's the current brain-itch.
I am interested to find out if I can even earn one die tomorrow --I suspect that I get mini-burnt-out at the end of every week (not aided by my horrible schedule this year that puts Thursday and Friday as my hardest days at school. At least the rest of this week should be relatively mellow in terms of accomplishing things, which is to say, there's not a lot to force the students to do and we can all be a little more chill than usual.)
But I washed my hair and cleaned up under my desk (and found Gwent1's missing d4, which went scattering across and off the desk a few weeks ago --luckily she hasn't needed it much), both of which have been hanging out longterm on my todo list. And I picked up my meds from the pharmacy, and did 2.5 pull-ups and three sets of 11 pushups. I had one student actually come to the bonus office hours I was able to offer, and we got some good work done and chatted about his life and future plans -he wants to be a pilot which I 100% support and have no idea how to actually give advice for. How's the Air Force feel about letting young men from Afghanistan fly their planes?
I also played a _lot_ of dumb phone games. I alsoalso finished book 4 of the Bloody Jack series. So all told, things are going well? I think? On balance better good than bad? Personally, of course, on a global scale things are shit.
(On a micro scale, it is _shit_ that last week had emails being all "oh no covid cases are on the rise, be wary" and this week has "appreciation for teachers! come eat pizza and ice cream sammiches with your colleagues here inside!" I am well aware that 3/15 of the English-learner-teacher department is out right now with the 'ronis, so absolutely not taking my mask off around most people, nope.
Luckily former-favourite-student-now-above-average-coworker was willing to come hang with me outside and chat, and we were quickly joined by favourite-coworker and one of the new math department folk. It was a nice little group and felt much better eating out there, well spaced, than indoors.)
Anyways, that's about all I've got. Tomorrow's big todo item is to try calling the department of ed to ask some check-in questions. I am...not really looking forward to it, but it is a critical step in the awful mission I don't want to talk about. I'm being cryptic because this is something I'm bad at, and I hate talking about things I'm bad at.
I hope you have a good day!
~Sor
MOOP!
1: My DnD character! She's a ranger and a weaver/knitter/fiber-artist/sheep-herd. She recently started to have magic and it's weird, she feels weird about it. Her party has a magic-eating plant and we're spending a lot of time talking about ethics. She has a staff and enjoys whacking the fuck out of things with it. Like all my DnD characters, she is an idealized version of who I want to be, which is to say, a himbo2. She's also a lesbian, because all my characters3 are, for whatever weird reason, but that doesn't come up much.
2: I find it irritating that himbo and bimbo have different connotations, and I _definitely_ want the "dumb but well meaning and really kind" ones.
3: Well, her and fictional!Sor from the Snowtown shared universe. So two lesbians.