Sistah Pat

No school today.  I have an all day meeting/training.  I enjoy them but I always have this cloud hanging over me because I know that even a single day out of the building is going to make it difficult to catch up tomorrow.

I got to sleep in a few minutes because the training is only a 5 minute drive from my house and it doesn’t start until 8:00.  Amazing what a difference a few minutes can make.  Oh, yeah, I don’t have to spend any time on my hair, either.

I wanted to spend some time catching up with some blogs last night and see what you lovely chickies are up to.  Alas…it was not to be.  Youngest DS came over with the two little grandkids and then DIL from oldest DS shows up along with Holly.  Things got fairly chaotic and a blog session was not in the cards.  Seems like things are getting chaotic almost every evening around here.  I guess, with the weather so miserable, the only place to go these days is to Nana’s.  All five grandkids, both DSs and one DIL were here.  NOT conductive to reading and blogging.

Don’t have a clue what I’m going to wear today.  Maybe I can get my fat butt into some of the new jeans I’ve gotten within the last six months but I’m going to be sitting all day except for when I go to Jason’s Deli for lunch and load up at the salad bar.  Not sure I want to wear tight jeans.  Then again, maybe it’ll keep me from overdoing the salad bar…..Nah……

4:15 - Life Lesson #287821 - Do not wear tight jeans that gap with a short top when you’re going to be sitting all day. 

Life Lesson Solution #287821 - Try to sit with your back to the wall and hang your coat over the back of the chair.

Had a pretty good day.  Tight jeans kept me from overdoing Jason’s.  Sometimes I feel so out of place at these meetings.  I used to be hot stuff when it came to technology but you really have to keep up with it.  It changes almost before I can get a handle on the old stuff.  Most of the TRTs are a lot younger than I am and a few of them are still in school taking technology courses.  Today we looked at editing and posting podcasts (a task that I have a pretty good handle on) and then we moved on to aggregators, microblogs, and twitter.  I did find one website that I thought was pretty cool:

http://freerice.com/

It’s an educational site that has questions in several different subject areas.  For every question you get right, they donate ten grains of rice to the UN Food Program to help ease hunger in impoverished nations.  Nice way to get kids motivated while contributing to a worthy cause.  For all you teachers out there, a couple other good sites are

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

This is a repository of famous speeches and then there’s a really cool video about technology on youtube.com called Did You Know?