Thursday-Monday 1

Ketchup.

In a class one day a teacher handed out some copies and after they began the lesson a girl signaled me over and pointed out the word 'catsup' and said it was misspelled. I thought oh, ah-ha, I need to find a simple way to explain how she is both right, and yet it is also a correct spelling of that word. Later I happened upon a Twitter argument (more like a somewhat heated debate) about the exact same thing.

Backing up.

I blew off writing lately because of a few reasons. I was extra exhausted, I was doing more or less well in school, so there wasn't as much conflict, which often inspires writing (I'd like to change that), and I wasn't following my rule of no Twitter until I write. Twitter seems pretty innocent compared to Facebook as far as a time-wasting vortex, but for me it can become a time suck, sometimes several hours deep. Speaking of wasting time, there's a cool new UK TV show called Timewasters, about some twenty-something guys (and one gal) who are musicians and find a time portal to the 1920's. But Twitter is a big distraction. Like I was listening to a Walking Dead podcast earlier, and I really wanted to tweet to the podcasters (Bald Move) about how South Park just did a show on what they were discussing and made fun of Netflix originals and how they're green lighting 'everything and anything'.

Catching up.

I'm just going to transcribe my phone notes until I decide it's enough, or I finish... SO... going back to Thursday. Two kids cut class and it created a little hubbub. We aides had an informal lecture from a district vision specialist on how to help us better work with our visually impaired students. Someone showed me a great online typing game that I want to try. It was the opening night of the school play, but we didn't end up going until Saturday for the matinee. It was a very top-notch performance and production. We bought about $25 worth of candy to help support the thespians, and are going to use it to give out on Halloween (what is left of me sneaking into it at least.)

Obstacles.

Here's one of the biggest problems with taking faux shorthand/abbreviated notes and expecting to understand them later; one of my notes says: "chicken substitute arson pants adjustment"...??????

TBC/PEACE