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I spent four hours after school in the ceramics room glazing my strawberry and donuts and making Cameron a new box copying the one someone else did that he admired and said he wanted one like it. I'm going to have him glaze it when it's ready; so that he can at least do half the work. If I put the glaze colors into little labeled cups then he might do it. It's understandably difficult to do the glazing because unlike paint, the colors look very matte and dull and almost nothing like the colors that they will become after firing. I also spent time reorganizing the glaze bottles that were out of order, but they were much better since I fixed them the forst time and affixed signs indicating where to put the big and little bottles.
There were some participants for the school student walkout today to protest gun violence in the U.S., but not as many as I was expecting. We weren't allowed to join them, but I took two students out to walk on the track and the group had gathered there to speak, so we got to see them anyway.
After school, I got to go book 'shopping' in the library where they have several cartloads of giveaways in preparation of an inventory overhaul. I got about a hundred pounds of books, mostly for myself and Steven, but a few for the classroom and a few for the art room. Oh yeah, I also had fun organizing the books in the ceramics room. I really want to borrow some, he has some great books.

So, they were mostly reference books, and I was going to get this big Gray's Anatomy book, but then I saw a familiar blue binding of the Merck's Medical desk manual, and I remembered growing up my mom had one in the house that she used sometimes. It was from 2006 which wasn't that long ago, and it is significantly smaller than the Gray's, so I got that instead. There were also some amazing books on physics, and I got several while thinking of the passing of esteemed astro-super-physicist yesterday Stephen Hawking. And a nutrition book or two, one about herbal medicines, which I am excited to have to look at. When we move into our new apartment (fingers crossed), we are going to need a few additional bookcases.

Gabe was talking all through History class today, interrupting constantly and telling Lori to 'shut up' and 'stop looking at him' a lot. We have to figure out how to address this successfully because asking him to listen or be quiet wasn't working. His slideshow for a different class is due tomorrow and I helped a lot more than I probably should have, but he was doing it with a group and I don't want them to get a bad grade. What I need to do is create some flash cards for him because he is lacking comprehension and it's really important material. Not that flash cards will solve it all and create depth and understanding, but I think they will help him to be aware of the information, and help me know what he does and doesn't get.

I helped Boris with civil law again and learned a lot about discrimination in voter laws. It is some reprehensible bullshit! Then I was going to read with Lori and she reminded me that I had said we could take a walk for our reading time since we didn't have time the other day, so we walked and talked and listened to Bruno Mars...Peace!