4 hours in...

Oy. I've been working on school stuff for the last 4 hours! And not even the fun stuff! Not the, I'm planning a cool lesson and researching stuff on the Internet. Nope. I'm trying to get my gradebook squared away. I feel I've been hopelessly wrong about this from the start. I've fouled the whole mess up but good.

Which, okay. I'm new. I'm learning. I will make mistakes in my first month of teaching.

But I hope that I'm changing all of that. Now that I will be toting my laptop to and from school, I've decided to transfer my grades to a computerized gradebook. No problems yet, but I feel like I'm missing some work. Which, well, it kind of sucks! Also, I now wish I had done what I originally planned to do, which was have each subject have a separate grade book. Now I have to split them up, which isn't as easy as it sounds. And really, I'm not even done transferring all the grades from the paper book. I'm giving myself a little slack on that - I can do that when I get home each night and just back date it.

Went to Prescott yesterday. Ostensibly to visit two of Mom & Mike's friends - Jim and Beverly. But we got to tool around downtown Prescott, have lunch, and drive up a butte/mountain, too. The weather was dreamy - in the 80's and overcast. At one point it even rained! I took a whole mess of pictures. Most of them were of the antique soda fountain that Jim and Beverly have. It's a pretty cool thing, I have to say. Jim made me the best hot fudge sundae that I've had in a long damn time. They were quite lovely people and I hope to go back some day.

I tried to upload about 47 pictures to Flickr from yesterday, but it errored out for some strange reason. It squawked about my API key, so I'll have to look into that. I'm going to try again later to get them uploaded. I need to burn a cd of some of the pictures on my computer. I don't want to clutter it up if I'm going to be using it for work, too. I really, REALLY need to get a bigger hard drive installed soon.