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saturday at the HLC
Aug. 17th, 2002 01:41 pmdood. i'm phuckin' tired, and it's only 1:45 on a saturday afternoon.
first of all, jorn and i were up late last night. once we actually went to sleep, i slept really well. he knows how to take care of business, that man does. anyway, i couldn't sleep in because this morning i had to work 10-12 at the HLC. and no one was really "in charge" today, because thad is out of town for the weekend and debbie is still on her well-deserved vacation. tara was supposed to be on-call, and i don't know why no one called her, because we ended up being short two teachers. one of them had a death in the family, but the other was just not there--maybe she wasn't really scheduled and thad made a mistake, or maybe she just didn't come? we don't know. but we were short two teachers, so that when i got there, i got to work with two kids when i should've just been working with one. randy my little sweetheart was there, and so was wendi, who i also love, AND little lily, and there should have been one teacher for each kid, but instead there was just katie and i. so katie worked with little randy, and i tried working with both wendi and lily at the same time. this did not work out too well.
lily's only six, and she can't read well enough to be expected to work on her own for any length of time. wendi is eight, so she should be able to work on her own for at least a few minutes at a time, but she'll drift away if you don't stay on her, plus she's a chatterbox, plus she's always in some sort of pain from some newly-healed scrape. so wendi needed attention too. katie helped when randy was working on the computer, and anthony was on group so he helped with lily's stuff when the group was being quiet, and so it pretty much worked out. i mostly worked with wendi while katie and anthony helped lily along. most of the time i love working with wendi, but today she was getting on my nerves because i couldn't give her all my attention like usual, and she just was not being helpful. wendi whined about her vocab sentences SO MUCH--even after i had given her like six example sentences for the word "glance", she still insisted she couldn't think of anything. so i was like, FINE, close your book and let's do math, because she had dragged her feet for like 20 minutes on just the definitions and the first sentence already, and then she was all upset because i was being short with her. argh, wendi. so she didn't finish her program, and lily finished most of hers but not her vocab sentences either. there's just no way i could have had them both writing vocab sentences at once, because i think it's an inherent part of children that they just hate writing vocab sentences and must be prodded repeatedly to do it.
after work, i went to the Bilo (again) to pick up some gummi worms and swedish fish and blue jello. i've decided my dessert item for the picnic tomorrow will be aquarium jello, if i can figure out at what point to drop the fish in. Bilo also had little gummi sharks, so i was excited. i'm going to make a first draft with peach jello (b/c jorn likes that kind too) and drop in worms periodically to see when the best worm-dropping time is (after 20 minutes in the fridge? half an hour? etc). and then tomorrow morning hopefully i'll make a double of the blue jello and drop in fish and worms (for eels) and sharks. and i'm going to use a glass bowl, so people can see the fish in the aquarium. i'm just a little concerned because if i put too many things in, then the jello won't harden, but if i don't put enough in then each person at the party won't be able to have their own gummi fish/worm/shark. sigh. not like anyone's going to care; they're all better cooks anyway. at least i know jorn and i and rhett and xina will have some jello.
i made it all the way to the end of zelda: ocarina of time, but i don't feel like beating ganon and finishing the game. i did all the fun stuff already, and it takes a while to beat ganon, since you have to beat him twice (long story) and then watch the ending sequence. now i want to reinstall all the kings quest games and play them again, because they're super fun. jorn doesn't like the earlier ones, but i think they're the best. must resist the urge, though--i have dishes to do and jello to make and poems to write.
yum. gummi worms are good.
first of all, jorn and i were up late last night. once we actually went to sleep, i slept really well. he knows how to take care of business, that man does. anyway, i couldn't sleep in because this morning i had to work 10-12 at the HLC. and no one was really "in charge" today, because thad is out of town for the weekend and debbie is still on her well-deserved vacation. tara was supposed to be on-call, and i don't know why no one called her, because we ended up being short two teachers. one of them had a death in the family, but the other was just not there--maybe she wasn't really scheduled and thad made a mistake, or maybe she just didn't come? we don't know. but we were short two teachers, so that when i got there, i got to work with two kids when i should've just been working with one. randy my little sweetheart was there, and so was wendi, who i also love, AND little lily, and there should have been one teacher for each kid, but instead there was just katie and i. so katie worked with little randy, and i tried working with both wendi and lily at the same time. this did not work out too well.
lily's only six, and she can't read well enough to be expected to work on her own for any length of time. wendi is eight, so she should be able to work on her own for at least a few minutes at a time, but she'll drift away if you don't stay on her, plus she's a chatterbox, plus she's always in some sort of pain from some newly-healed scrape. so wendi needed attention too. katie helped when randy was working on the computer, and anthony was on group so he helped with lily's stuff when the group was being quiet, and so it pretty much worked out. i mostly worked with wendi while katie and anthony helped lily along. most of the time i love working with wendi, but today she was getting on my nerves because i couldn't give her all my attention like usual, and she just was not being helpful. wendi whined about her vocab sentences SO MUCH--even after i had given her like six example sentences for the word "glance", she still insisted she couldn't think of anything. so i was like, FINE, close your book and let's do math, because she had dragged her feet for like 20 minutes on just the definitions and the first sentence already, and then she was all upset because i was being short with her. argh, wendi. so she didn't finish her program, and lily finished most of hers but not her vocab sentences either. there's just no way i could have had them both writing vocab sentences at once, because i think it's an inherent part of children that they just hate writing vocab sentences and must be prodded repeatedly to do it.
after work, i went to the Bilo (again) to pick up some gummi worms and swedish fish and blue jello. i've decided my dessert item for the picnic tomorrow will be aquarium jello, if i can figure out at what point to drop the fish in. Bilo also had little gummi sharks, so i was excited. i'm going to make a first draft with peach jello (b/c jorn likes that kind too) and drop in worms periodically to see when the best worm-dropping time is (after 20 minutes in the fridge? half an hour? etc). and then tomorrow morning hopefully i'll make a double of the blue jello and drop in fish and worms (for eels) and sharks. and i'm going to use a glass bowl, so people can see the fish in the aquarium. i'm just a little concerned because if i put too many things in, then the jello won't harden, but if i don't put enough in then each person at the party won't be able to have their own gummi fish/worm/shark. sigh. not like anyone's going to care; they're all better cooks anyway. at least i know jorn and i and rhett and xina will have some jello.
i made it all the way to the end of zelda: ocarina of time, but i don't feel like beating ganon and finishing the game. i did all the fun stuff already, and it takes a while to beat ganon, since you have to beat him twice (long story) and then watch the ending sequence. now i want to reinstall all the kings quest games and play them again, because they're super fun. jorn doesn't like the earlier ones, but i think they're the best. must resist the urge, though--i have dishes to do and jello to make and poems to write.
yum. gummi worms are good.
