Sorry about the vaguebooking yesterday; one of our cats has been sick for a while, got abruptly really sick yesterday and we spent the whole evening shuttling him around from home to the regular vet to the emergency vet and it really really wasn’t a good evening. He looks like he’s going to pull through, though; he’s coming home (from the regular vet, who we had to deliver him back to) tonight to spend the night at home where, the thought is, he’ll be more comfortable. Then he goes back to regular vet again tomorrow for the day. Assuming there are no disasters tonight. Cross your fingers; I’ve had enough of medical issues in general lately.
Did my first observation for the probation assistance team today; I have three days, more or less, to get my notes compiled together and sent out to everyone. I have less to say than I thought I would, honestly; I spent most of the observation musing about what might come from putting the teacher on probation in my classroom. Because, honestly, there were things working in there that simply don’t work for me, and the lesson plan itself may as well have been ripped directly from corporation paperwork– which is interesting. Is that a weakness, because there’s none of the teacher in the lesson? Is a strength, because they presumably recommend that lesson plan for a reason and this teacher is Doing it Right? Which means, then, that I’m Doing it Wrong? I dunno. I didn’t see much that made me think the teacher should be let go, which is a good thing. I just hope everybody else on the team feels the same way. Writing up the notes will be interesting.
Day Three of wearing a Fitbit Force: I walk about seven thousand steps a day, maybe, when I’m not spending the entire evening in my car shuttling a cat around to doctors. I haven’t tried pairing it with MyFitnessPal or doing any actual exercise yet; I want to take a week or so and get a baseline for how much I move around during a day and then we’ll set some goals and make some adjustments. One development: I’m way more into the idea of a smart watch than I’ve been in the past; the idea of notifications being delivered via a vibration to my wrist rather than an an audible tone is wonderful, and I don’t ever want to be awakened by an alarm again. Seriously, I could completely give up on the idea of fitness– fuck it, I’ll just be fat forever– and I’m still gonna wear this thing to bed. Silent vibrating wrist alarms are fantastic.
Posts that are percolating; reviews of the new Eminem and Latyrx CDs, as soon as I find the time to listen to the damn things, and that reminds me I never really wrote about the new Pearl Jam album, and probably a post on theology based on this piece at the Atlantic, which quotes people who I know from grad school. Who somehow teach at Oxford now.
Yeah. I know Oxford professors. I think that probably confers nerd baller status, but maybe not.
I’m not writing that last piece unless I can do it in a way that doesn’t sound like I’m gleefully tossing grenades and lit torches around; I’d like to participate in a conversation and not just be an asshole. We’ll see how well it works. In the meantime, click on the link; it’s worth the read.
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