Free Friday

I had to check that I didn't miss a day, since it didn't seem like a Friday, with no school and all. Still, motivation was rather high, and I am slightly proud of myself. Produced 3 basic PowerPoint presentations - by basic I mean words, backgrounds, bulletpoints. No fancy animations, no pictures, no music. Just outlines of the points I need to make to the students. Naturally I don't feel like I have done enough, so I will probably outline a few sample questions for the dry erase board for each slide. And I can email the docs to each student if they want them.

Then this evening was a different sort of trivia. There is a religious brother named Ignatious who runs trivia evenings at various churches and schools as fundraisers. We have gone to the quarterly ones at our elder daughter's high school and have a good time. Tonight we went to a church sponsored one. Again, slightly proud of myself (right now, though, concerned that I am having more and more difficulty with transposed letters - it has even been happening in my handwriting) for 3 answers I pulled from somewhere in my nether regions:

Category: Begins with "R" - A drink made with cola and grenadine

Category: Black and White - The number of squares in a side of the New York Times daily crossword puzzle.

Category: Disney (ladies) - We were given a picture sheet, so first I had to know the mouse with the fur hat was from The Rescuers (and Rescuers Down Under) - name her.

And I won a door prize bottle of wine.

Tomorrow is an early day, got to be gone by 7am. I have my dry erase markers, 25 copies of two sections of questions (and answers), my flash drive with the PowerPoint presentations, a printed copy of the class roster. In the morning I will work up those sample questions, or maybe just do it on the fly. I seem to enjoy the pressure, although the last time I did this I was given half the time, and I plan on allowing 30 minutes for each practice test, then time to review questions and solutions. Should be a plan.