Sistah Pat

Each day is like a loaded potato.  You’ve got your basic baked potato and then all the other stuff starts piling on.  Still, it makes the days fly.  It seems like just yesterday we were looking at three weeks of school and now this week is almost gone. 

Today’s potato toppings include refining and printing the Senior Awards program, choosing a color printer and getting it ordered, ordering paper for next year, the final ROTC Booster Club meeting of the year after school and taking Andrew for a haircut.  Not too bad.  Of course, that’s on top of my plain baked potato (I mean, classes…)

It seems like I’m always making brochures, awards, newsletters, programs, etc.  I had a brainstorm about doing all that on top of my regular classes and asked the principal if I could teach a desktop publishing class next year.  She was really enthusiastic about it and said I could order my very own color laser printer.  Whoo Hooo!  No more runnning back and forth to print stuff from one of the two highly guarded color printers in the school.  I don’t even think I’m going to have it networked.  Just hook it up as a local printer.  That way, I won’t have people all over the school printing to my room and I won’t have to worry about students printing stuff until I’ve approved it.  The printers are $800 each and I have a feeling that the ink is pretty pricey too.  It’s going to be nice to assign all the brochures, awards, etc. to students.  Of course, that comes at a price.  It’s probably going to make me crazy trying to get them to bring their creations up to snuff before they get printed and distributed.

Gotta run.  Have a good one, Chicklets!