Up late morning for a pleasant change after the last several days and walked in to work, where I pulled a noon to 6:00 PM closing shift. It was a very busy day, starting with there being a large pile of new releases to shelve and display. I also had some other tasks to do, including putting together some publicity materials for our next book ( Read more... )

My subbing assignment today was sixth-grade science in the middle school to our south. I'm becoming very familiar with these sixth graders, which may go some way towards explaining why they're comparatively well-behaved when I'm there. It was a good day, and I got to come home early because the regular teacher had planning periods at the end of ( Read more... )

Up early to open the book store again, today for a solo Sunday shift. I walked in, which was fine. (My ankles and knees don't bother me much in the morning. It's only after I've been on my feet for a while that they get really unreasonable.) It was a reasonably quiet day, and while plenty of people came in the store, they were mostly browsers ( Read more... )

Up earlyish this morning to open the book store. I walked in, enjoying the lovely warm weather along the way. It was nice enough out, in fact, that we left the front door of the store open for most of the day. In any case, it was a nice, busy day, with lots of customers. I also had a bunch of tasks to do around the store, so the few slow ( Read more... )

Up early for subbing yet again, and back down to the middle school to our south to be a sixth-grade math teacher. I also took over two classes of seventh-graders at the end of the day (they couldn't find a sub or the teacher in question, so I took over part of the job). The seventh graders were still squirrely, although the sixth graders weren't ( Read more... )

Up early for subbing again, and this time I was a seventh-grade geography teacher in the middle school to our south. It was a pretty good day, although the kids were pretty squirrely, which is probably due to spring being in the process of springing. In any case, they weren't completely out of control, so all went well ( Read more... )

Up early this morning for subbing, and off to the high school to our south to be an economics teacher for the day. It was a very easy day -- I basically just took attendance and handed out worksheets. The students worked reasonably quietly, so I had no trouble with them. During the regular teacher's planning period, I read more of Jane Steele, ( Read more... )

Up mid-morning today, and actually awakened by a subbing call. It was for tomorrow though, so in theory I could have gone right back to bed. Instead, I got up, spent my usual time online for the morning, and then tried to settle in to do some writing. No success there, however: instead I spent a lot of time just staring at the computer screen. ( Read more... )

Up late in the morning, and spent a desultory early afternoon online. I did balance the checkbook and pay some bills, which is something. (I would have done this yesterday, but I spent all my time trying tow rite instead.) Beyond that, though, the day wasn't very productive.

queenmomcat went out in the afternoon and returned with her new laptop, which had ( Read more... )

Up late morning, and found it another warm, sunny day. I spent a desultory early afternoon online before deciding to settle in to do some serious writing. I'm not entirely satisfied with the results -- nine lines of kind of trivial observations -- but it's better than being stuck with a blank screen for hours ( Read more... )