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Jan. 31st, 2009 04:53 pm
WEEKEND!!!
(...and it is sooo welcome)
On the school funding (or appalling lack thereof) front, it looks like the cuts will go at least halfway into the next school year. Good grief. And it's not like the school district appropriated the funds--the state government (or appalling lack thereof) just up and cut the budget balance to zeroes. Out of the freakin' blue. Yeah. Nice.
Today was quiz day at Underfunded University. All I did between last quiz and this was throw in equations--we did factoring already, and now it was time to use it to solve equations. In other words, I am teaching a skill, then adding to it--just like someone would do with the kids if they had an actual job. If they can't handle new tasks involving just numbers and variables, how can they do it when it involves machinery, techology, human resources, and the like?
On the plus side, half the 3rd period class got an 'A', so I know overall that 1) I did an effective job teaching, 2) the material was not beyond their grasp, and 3) if a student failed, it was their own damn fault. So there.
LJDQ is done for this week. I tell you, I look at the questions on Tuesday, and think "Omg, how the hell am I going to make anything marginally funny from this?" And by Friday, with a pun, a rant, an actual right answer, and a few pop culture references, I have the quiz done. I have no idea why I need to get the quotage every Monday, but, dammit, I need it bad.
In other news, I found two new trivia websites to stripmine for question fodder. Most trivia sites are mostly filled with too-easy questions, sometimes even inaccurate ones (no, Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet, nor did Otto Titsling invent the brassiere, and a duck's quack does echo), or they're college bowl-level of toughness. These websites are juuuuuuust riiiiiight. I can cherry-pick some good stuff from the material there. Mmmmmmmmmm...trivialicious.
We have a RenFair here this weekend. I used to like them, until I realized they weren't so much RenFairs as BuyAllOurShitFairs. Pass.
Putting more comics on eBay this weekend. This Sunday--Conan, Daredevil, and some 70s Marvel horror, with some old Lev Gleason comics thrown in for good measure (drools). Box #3 of 12 is now emptied, meaning over 1,000 comics sold. W00t! And to think...it only took six months!
My just-played playlist on my smooth jazz station on Pandora:
Samba Del Luna, Craig Chaquico w/Russ Freeman
Feels So Good, Chuck Mangione
Kisses in the Rain, Rick Braun
Drive Time, David Benoit
Night Crawler, Bob James
Feel, Louis Landon
Ecstacy, Jeff Kashiwa
I so love pandora.com.
Tomorrow, I shovel out #1 son's room, take #2 son's bike to be fixed, do dishes, take pics of eBay comics and pre-write the listing copy, make Marshmallow Rice Krispies Treats, and write questions. Oh, and catch up on sleep. After this week, I think I earned a little. :-)
On the school funding (or appalling lack thereof) front, it looks like the cuts will go at least halfway into the next school year. Good grief. And it's not like the school district appropriated the funds--the state government (or appalling lack thereof) just up and cut the budget balance to zeroes. Out of the freakin' blue. Yeah. Nice.
Today was quiz day at Underfunded University. All I did between last quiz and this was throw in equations--we did factoring already, and now it was time to use it to solve equations. In other words, I am teaching a skill, then adding to it--just like someone would do with the kids if they had an actual job. If they can't handle new tasks involving just numbers and variables, how can they do it when it involves machinery, techology, human resources, and the like?
On the plus side, half the 3rd period class got an 'A', so I know overall that 1) I did an effective job teaching, 2) the material was not beyond their grasp, and 3) if a student failed, it was their own damn fault. So there.
LJDQ is done for this week. I tell you, I look at the questions on Tuesday, and think "Omg, how the hell am I going to make anything marginally funny from this?" And by Friday, with a pun, a rant, an actual right answer, and a few pop culture references, I have the quiz done. I have no idea why I need to get the quotage every Monday, but, dammit, I need it bad.
In other news, I found two new trivia websites to stripmine for question fodder. Most trivia sites are mostly filled with too-easy questions, sometimes even inaccurate ones (no, Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet, nor did Otto Titsling invent the brassiere, and a duck's quack does echo), or they're college bowl-level of toughness. These websites are juuuuuuust riiiiiight. I can cherry-pick some good stuff from the material there. Mmmmmmmmmm...trivialicious.
We have a RenFair here this weekend. I used to like them, until I realized they weren't so much RenFairs as BuyAllOurShitFairs. Pass.
Putting more comics on eBay this weekend. This Sunday--Conan, Daredevil, and some 70s Marvel horror, with some old Lev Gleason comics thrown in for good measure (drools). Box #3 of 12 is now emptied, meaning over 1,000 comics sold. W00t! And to think...it only took six months!
My just-played playlist on my smooth jazz station on Pandora:
Samba Del Luna, Craig Chaquico w/Russ Freeman
Feels So Good, Chuck Mangione
Kisses in the Rain, Rick Braun
Drive Time, David Benoit
Night Crawler, Bob James
Feel, Louis Landon
Ecstacy, Jeff Kashiwa
I so love pandora.com.
Tomorrow, I shovel out #1 son's room, take #2 son's bike to be fixed, do dishes, take pics of eBay comics and pre-write the listing copy, make Marshmallow Rice Krispies Treats, and write questions. Oh, and catch up on sleep. After this week, I think I earned a little. :-)
