Super early in the morning and nervous about doing something I have done many times and at the same time for the first time. Heading out on Spring Break road trip, but back to New York for the first time since I moved away. Many mixed feelings about how it will affect me - things will have changed, it is another place I used to, but no longer, belong. And the stress of long haul driving.
Yesterday was as expected. I got out of having to teach anything by giving the kids their 7th grade math placement. A nice little 25 item test to bubble in quietly while I filled in a "rubric" page for each and every student. Name, teacher name, school name....then comes the fun part. Math grade for all 3 quarters so far. Grade on the test they are taking (we don't have a ScanTron, so it gets sent out and back for scoring). on and on. Then at 2:00, the aforementioned dance, that is nothing like a dance from my middle school years. No actual dancing, just clumps of kids running around, and too many body motions that I don't think I learned for a good ten years past 6th grade. But the day ended.
Off to vets, drop the dogs (who are excited and barky, but give up and meekly follow the vet who they know), then to the Apple store. At which point, my decision is made for me. I forgot how "Apple" people are. The line is about 300 people long for the iPad2. So I go for fallback plan - save money, don't go for the brand new, bells-and-whistles, but get the standard iPad, skip the line (heh heh) and back home to load things and pack.
Whee - next update will be from the road, either via laptop or iPad.
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