I’m at OtherJob basically all day today, from 11 to 8 officially, which is probably going to turn out to be 11 to 7 in practice because I suspect that between the wind and the cold and the snow outside it’s gonna be a real slow day.  To that end, I have brought the following items with me:

• My laptop
• My iPad, with Bluetooth keyboard
• Two different books, plus an ebook short story collection that I want to get into
• About two inches of grading (light week!)
• My lesson plan book
• Two math textbooks

(Does math, realizes he brought around $2500 in technology to work.  Decides not to care.)

I have the following tasks to accomplish:

• Write a somewhat serious blog post (Which is not this one.  Yeah, it’s gonna be a loquacious day.  Hopefully that’s a good thing.)
• Grade the aforementioned two inches of grading
• Email parents collectively
• Email a whole bunch of parents individually
• Plan lessons for next week in detail and for the rest of the window in somewhat less detail (the next two weeks will be tricky for various reasons)
• Write separate lesson plans for Monday afternoon, since I’ll be out of the building at a PAT meeting
• Put together Success groups for next week
• Decide if I need to prepare anything for said PAT meeting
• If necessary, prepare that
• Update my parent contact log (waaaay behind on that, which is weird, because I was totally on top of it all the time last year)
• Finish at least the book I’m currently reading; getting through two would be good.
• Actual OtherJob stuff for which I’m being paid right now
• Spend some time just watching the snow swirl; the wind patterns on the course are fascinating and the snowflakes are really big.
• Figure out what I’m cooking for both of the two Thanksgivings I’m attending in the next five days
• Play with my new Pebble

Yeah, I bought a Pebble.  I’m wearing both the Pebble and the Fitbit right now, on separate wrists, because I am TechnoWanker and I can get away with that.  (Actually, I can’t, but since I’m old I don’t have to care anymore.  Yay old!)  Super short review: so far, it does what I want, save for a bit of amateur hour stuff with the alarms which they’re already promising a fix for.  Longer review coming in, oh, a week or so.

And here we go.