12/5/07

Fun with Macbook!



Well, I don't think that I mentioned that I got a new computer at work. I was just walking through the front office one day and there were a lot of computers sitting on a cart. I said: "Wow, we must be getting another mobile lab or something. Merry Christmas to the students." After I said that, one of my co-workers, who happens to be over teacher computers, says: "No, Merry Christmas to you. Take one." I didn't believe him until he picked up a box that had my name on the corner. It is a new MacBook and it is very, very nice and very, very, very fast. I am very grateful for it because I never have to wait for things to load. The only thing that I do not like about it is that this new computer is not compatible with my new mp3 player. Bummer. I will have to bribe people to let me use their PCs in order to download music or movies. Sad days.

One of the most fun features of this computer is that there is a built in camera. You can thank that feature for the wonderful picture of me in this post. I am thinking I should do a picture a day for my posts. A week of pictures of me could be fun! A few of my students also thought that it was fun to take pictures with the laptops in my classroom. That would have been only a little irritating, but they also decided to print out a bazillion copies of each picture to another teacher's printer. She was not very happy about the influx of colored photos seeing it costs $850 to replace the ink in the printer. My students lost computer privileges for the next two weeks. Dang kids. They were pretty cool pictures though, I have to admit.

Today was one of my friend’s (she is one of the teachers at school) birthdays. I love other people's birthdays. It is fun to celebrate them, even if I really don't enjoy my own birthday. I had a student from each of her classes bring in a card and present each hour. They were also supposed to lead the other students in "Happy Birthday." It was a fun day because of all that fun. It was also very fun to see said friend get embarrassed as the kids sung. I took my whole class 5th hour to sing to her.

Not much else is going on here. This week I have been getting a bit more sleep, which is nice. I feel better even if a few of the students have told me that I am crabby the last few days. I think they think I am crabby just because they are getting called on the stupid stuff they do. I kind of get sick of their stupidity some days. Sigh.

I went and played my friend's Wii tonight. I want one!

Well, that is all I got for now. Only 10 days of school until winter break. Only 13 days 16 hours and 22 Minutes until I fly home. But who is counting? Is it Friday yet?