Why me?

Another smooth-ish day, although some things kept me from getting everything done that I wanted, and much of that list was work that shouldn't have been heaped on me in the first place. Got tapped for traffic duty - we are trying to get the parents/relatives who pick up students to allow a lane for those who have already picked up to leave. So far, so good...today we got the place cleared in 15 minutes. Still, we had to be out there 45 minutes before dismissal...45 minutes of my planning period lost. Which means I am behind in entering attendance into the system for the first two weeks of the school year. Never mind we had to submit daily written logs of who showed up for every period, and they kept changing kids around (and my homeroom was the overflow/temporary assignment), now we have to put that into the computer. My impression, obviously wrong, was that the attendance secretary would put all that in as she took our logs. Nope.

Also, we were told we were dropping our old online communication for Teacher-Eaze (sp?), which means we put in grades weekly and parents can see them faster. This system will also allow us to generate progress reports. Guess what. The system is not set up yet. But, we are required to issue progress reports for every student (120 or so) by Friday. The old fashioned way, without benefit of a weighted average program, with minimal grades (since the first week was impossible to take grades, with the churn of students), and hand writing them on a form I just created for my team.

And trying to put painters tape around the perimeter of 32 one-square-foot tiles of dry-erase board. Got half of them before I decided to leave. At which point I discovered my back tire (the new one) was flat. Not just low, but flat. It was fine inbound, and odd that it could deflate that much over the course of a day. Yes, suspicions surfaced about my students, especially the ones who laughed after asking me what type of bike I had, after a period of my being in the hall trying to understand why two of my female students should have arrived at my class with the rest of them, but were 10 minutes later. The tube showed no leaks, but on the safe side I replaced it.

Biking, I have now retired (mostly) the fifth gear, and get by with just the top two. Only exception is at the beginning of each transit, especially in the morning when it takes me a bit to get the leg muscles warmed up. Weight-wise, the lying scale seems to be consistent over the past 3 weeks. Not losing, but not gaining either. Which means I am losing fat as my legs become like mighty oaks once again, since muscle weighs more than fat.