Having realized that there was no way that I could leave here tomorrow in anything like a normal time frame, I called and asked for an extra day off. Tomorrow, however, I really have to get things pulled together. As always, I'm worried about how to get all this stuff in the car. It seems impossible given the two big boxes of dishes (I only expected one box). I'll try to save that stress for tomorrow.
I'm having a horrible problem with tendinitis and/or carpal tunnel tonight. Everything I do seems to cause shooting pain to the tips of my fingers. I actually noticed this beginning last week. There's something that I'm doing when I'm cooking that causes it. I'm not quite sure what. Something about using a spatula too eagerly or may it's the whisk. I don't know, but it hurts like hell. I've iced it most of this evening, and it's still sore. At least for now I can still type. God help me if I lose the ability to type.
I did get some NCTE work done this evening—cleaned up all the broken links for our content report. I need to send it off tomorrow. I was going to try to get a lesson plan on writing comic strip scripts finished for the report, but I realized that what I really need for its interactive piece is some artwork that's been embellished with
Comic Life. Since I didn't bring my mac to Virginia, I can't finish that project. I'm certain that it's worth waiting. I can create some panes in Comic Life that will illustrate some of the definitions in the handouts for the lesson. I searched for online comics that I could use, but the political cartoons that are out of copyright are so different from the cartoons and comics that students are used to. Beyond that, they really didn't demonstrate all of the principles that I needed. I'm sure that waiting is the thing to do.
Maybe I can pull off some other lesson plan miracle for tomorrow's report. Otherwise, it has to go on with no new lessons. Given that we were all out of the office for the last two weeks, it's acceptable for it to be blank. I'm just a perfectionist, and I hate to leave it like that.
Back to the land of ghosts for some sleep now.
Posted Friday, 24-Aug-2007 17:09:26 PDT
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