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May. 13th, 2022 11:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressThere's a Rocky Horror callback, when Columbia is ranting near the end of the movie. "What'd that get me? A big nothing!" she says, and the audience obediently shouts back "at least it was a big one!"
That was my afternoon.
I managed to do work through most of the first half of the work day. I had students either testing or doing choice time (study for MCAS, catch up on needed work) so I spent a lot of time at my desk doing little tasks, and working one on one with the kids what needed it. But that trailed off after lunch.
During class 6, one of my kids who is doing surprisingly well this quarter (his 73% right now is well higher than his quarter 1-3 grades) plopped into my chair when my back was turned, and then spent the rest of the class there chatting with me about what it's like to be a teacher. I showed him some of my grading for the other class and what the keys were like, in between helping students who needed it. It was nice!
During class 7, one of my testing students got his phone back out of the phone bag when my back was turned. The phone bags are translucent, it took me like...less than five minutes to spot that there were n-1 phones for n students, and then it was just a matter of being very patient until I spotted which one had snuck the phone back. He slid it under a reference sheet as I walked over, and I picked up the reference sheet and phone and his test and gave him a new test and put the phone on my desk where it would be much harder and more obvious to get it.
((I didn't feel bad about making him restart the test since we were only about in the first fifteen minutes of class still, and if he hadn't been using his phone on it, it would be fine. If he ~had~ been, then, well, I probably could've done worse.))
And then it was the end of the day and I was drained and that comes to the introduction of this post. From 2:45 to 6:15 I did a _very_ big nothing, despite thinking repeatedly about the many things I could be doing.
Ezri mentioning that they wanted a food sorta shook me out of my reverie, and we made a nice plan to go meet up at a McDonalds not-quite-on-the-way-home-from-work for either of us. We ate food while sitting in the sunshine and chatting and half-reading things on our phones (I am rereading The Pure and Simple Truth which is one of my favourite Harry Potter fanfics, because I needed something to read while walking over and the book I'm in the middle of is here at home) It was nice!
Then we were home and I was reading the fanfic on the couch and then I woke up when Austin got here. Shortly I will be in bed and asleep and I look forward to it. Tomorrow is Highland Ball (if I can find a ride, lolsigh ((I will probably be fine))) and then Sunday is a brunch and everything sure is pretending to be normal for covid well on the rise. Sigh.
I hope you are both safe and well.
~Sor
MOOP!
That was my afternoon.
I managed to do work through most of the first half of the work day. I had students either testing or doing choice time (study for MCAS, catch up on needed work) so I spent a lot of time at my desk doing little tasks, and working one on one with the kids what needed it. But that trailed off after lunch.
During class 6, one of my kids who is doing surprisingly well this quarter (his 73% right now is well higher than his quarter 1-3 grades) plopped into my chair when my back was turned, and then spent the rest of the class there chatting with me about what it's like to be a teacher. I showed him some of my grading for the other class and what the keys were like, in between helping students who needed it. It was nice!
During class 7, one of my testing students got his phone back out of the phone bag when my back was turned. The phone bags are translucent, it took me like...less than five minutes to spot that there were n-1 phones for n students, and then it was just a matter of being very patient until I spotted which one had snuck the phone back. He slid it under a reference sheet as I walked over, and I picked up the reference sheet and phone and his test and gave him a new test and put the phone on my desk where it would be much harder and more obvious to get it.
((I didn't feel bad about making him restart the test since we were only about in the first fifteen minutes of class still, and if he hadn't been using his phone on it, it would be fine. If he ~had~ been, then, well, I probably could've done worse.))
And then it was the end of the day and I was drained and that comes to the introduction of this post. From 2:45 to 6:15 I did a _very_ big nothing, despite thinking repeatedly about the many things I could be doing.
Ezri mentioning that they wanted a food sorta shook me out of my reverie, and we made a nice plan to go meet up at a McDonalds not-quite-on-the-way-home-from-work for either of us. We ate food while sitting in the sunshine and chatting and half-reading things on our phones (I am rereading The Pure and Simple Truth which is one of my favourite Harry Potter fanfics, because I needed something to read while walking over and the book I'm in the middle of is here at home) It was nice!
Then we were home and I was reading the fanfic on the couch and then I woke up when Austin got here. Shortly I will be in bed and asleep and I look forward to it. Tomorrow is Highland Ball (if I can find a ride, lolsigh ((I will probably be fine))) and then Sunday is a brunch and everything sure is pretending to be normal for covid well on the rise. Sigh.
I hope you are both safe and well.
~Sor
MOOP!