The Visits

The job I am in now has way too much computer stuff to it.  I love computers as we all know, but I don't like entering data and I'm not too crazy about sending stuff on email that I've already sent to people several times.  And I don't like data entry.  Just want to be super clear on that.  I had a huge batch of scores to send to the district today and it's been hanging over my head for days.  Today I would work on the scores for 20 minutes and then run into a classroom for 20 minutes.  I kept that up all day long.  So on my visits, I did a variety of things.  Quizzed some firsties on their sight words.  Most of them knew most of them!  I sat with some 2nders who were making thank you cards.  They saw Give a Mouse a Cookie today at the Cardinal Theater Company and they were riding HIGH on that action.  I sat next to a thirdie who was freaking out about a cognitive test he was taking.  Talked him down and helped him through the last long pages.  I did a bunch of other stuff too.  Because I didn't stay at my desk doing data entry I didn't get to leave school until 8:30 pm.  Not the worst thing in the world because i took a break at 7:30 to watch the chimney swifts swirling into their chimney for the night.