{"id":582,"date":"2006-04-06T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2006-04-06T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T04:45:00","slug":"daily-work-its-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/06\/daily-work-its-raining\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Work: It&#8217;s Raining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a day of rain. Almost all day long, it&#8217;s been raining and raining, sometimes with thunder and lightning. On the radio this morning, the meteorologist joked, &#8220;You&#8217;ve heard that April showers bring May flowers? Today there will be enough rain that you could float the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Mayflower<\/span>.&#8221; Ahh, the witty stylings of NPR.<\/p>\n<p>Other than the rain, the day went fairly well. I had an update with Sharon, and got several things taken care of. I created a list of things that I needed her to help me with, and the meeting seemed like it had a structure, rather than me randomly fiddling around with my notebook. It may be a change worth keeping, especially now that Sharon is so much busier. <\/p>\n<p>She and I went out to lunch at Chili&#8217;s after the meeting, and naturally we continued talking about the various things that needed taken care of. After, I pulled some information from the ReadWriteThink database for her. We need to start gathering stats and details for end of the quarter and end of the year reports. I typed up feedback on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcopolo-education.org\/teacher\/marcograms.aspx\">MarcoGram newsletters<\/a> that MarcoPolo puts out. They&#8217;re considering redesign options, so it was our chance to look through the recent issues and think of things that might help teachers. I also mocked up a search page for staff to use on the site. We&#8217;re having some difficulty finding things on the site now that so much content is online.<\/p>\n<p>This evening, I&#8217;ve mostly fiddled about. I did some work fixing Firefox extensions that were misbehaving. Also tried to research options for Computers and Writing in Lubbock. So little final information is online though that I feel like I&#8217;m guessing.<\/p>\n<p>Everything feels very complicated in my life. Do I go to Lubbock? It will take at least 8 days of travel, half of it spent driving. The dorms are very cheap, but don&#8217;t have Internet access as far as I can tell. The hotel looks like $85\/night w\/o taxes, but has free wireless. Then there&#8217;s my need to sleep propped up with a bunch of pillows to keep from having acid reflux problems. And my addiction to cold water and caffeine-free soda. I&#8217;m a horribly annoying burden on humanity. Far too needy, and Lord knows I don&#8217;t need to go to another conference where I spend so much time in my room alone. Will I know how to do <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">this<\/span> conference? I don&#8217;t seem to know how to do CCCC anymore. I haven&#8217;t been to C&#038;W since Purdue. Surely I can remember. Of course, I wasn&#8217;t perfect in West Lafayette either. <\/p>\n<p>I so need a plan to my life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a day of rain. Almost all day long, it&#8217;s been raining and raining, sometimes with thunder and lightning. On the radio this morning, the meteorologist joked, &#8220;You&#8217;ve heard that April showers bring May flowers? Today there will be enough rain that you could float the Mayflower.&#8221; Ahh, the witty stylings of NPR. 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