Listening to: How about some…..Christmas!!!
Reading: Jewels of the Sun Nora Roberts
Weather: 50s, cloudy
Trivia: How is glass made into perfectly flat panes?
The Romans, who rolled partly melted glass on a flat surface, or cast it into molds, made the very first flat glass. The resulting small panes were cloudy and uneven, but they were transparent. Through the late 1800s, flat glass was made with the Crown method in which blown spheres were reheated, punctured, and spun into a nearly flat disc. These circular panes had a defect at the center called the bullion. In the early 1900s, rolled glass panes were produced by factory machines. But in 1959, a new method made all the rest
obsolete. Today, optically clear panes are made by the "Pilkington float" method. Molten glass is poured onto the surface of a bath of molten tin, under a chemically controlled atmosphere. The glass spreads out into a perfectly flat layer and solidifies into a clear pane.
Cool word: lollygag [v. LOL-ee-gag]; alternate spelling lallygag
To lollygag is to dawdle or waste time by aimlessly puttering around. Example: "You kids stop lollygagging and get busy with your homework!" People have been accused of lollygagging as early as the middle of the nineteenth century. There has always been a negative judgment in the accusations, but the meaning of the word has changed. In the
mid-1800s, the word referred to lascivious indulgence in kisses and caresses, like the (then) scandalous actions of a lovestruck couple. No one knows the origin of lollygag, but it has been suggested that the root was the dialect word lolly (tongue), which makes sense
considering the original meaning of the word. If so, it is closely related to lollipop, a word that originally referred to a kind of treacle candy.
Grindstone
After a decent weekend going back to work can really be the pits.
The day really flew by today, but in some ways felt out of control.
I started the morning with a meeting with a mother who, in spite of the reports and testing that was completed, jut doesn’t get that her child has low intelligence and doesn’t give a hoot about learning in general.
Nice kid, not interested in math or reading or any of those school things. He wants to go out and play sports, listen to music or play Nintendo. School is not his thing.
Which is going to make his life tough, given that he’s only in fifth grade and has lots of schooling ahead of him. This kid is going to constantly struggle, no matter what we do for him. I hope he can find some sort of a talent or interest that is a hand-on kind of thing, so he can get a trade education when he gets to high school.
Considering that plumbers, carpenters, electricians etc. get paid more than most teachers, I think that’s not a bad future.
The rest of the day continued in a similar fashion, as I just kept zipping from class to class, trying to eke out some paperwork whenever I had the chance. The time flies by, but I feel as if I’m spinning my wheels.
Part of the problem is knowing that I won’t be in tomorrow so I can go to the web master training that I’ve been signed up for. This is good and bad. Good in that I want to learn more about all this web design stuff, bad in that a day away from school puts me one more day behind.
Hey.
There’s no making me happy.
But at least I recognize that. So I spent the evening trying to get more paperwork done, but made just a slight dent. I even forgot to watch Ally McBeal. I never miss that show. I think I’ve entered into some sort of a zone where I can’t figure out what time it is, or what it is that I should really be doing.
I wonder if that’s a sign of old age or something?
The realization that Christmas is around the corner is suddenly dawning on me as well. I have so little shopping done, that I’m going to go into panic mode soon. I know I need to get it done, but I don’t seem to have any idea when it will be that it might happen. I also have no idea what to buy anyone.
I love shopping most of the time, just not when it’s hard to squeeze it into the schedule.
but it’ll get done. It always does.
Now I need to figure out what to wear tomorrow. It’s not often that I’m given the opportunity to venture out into the real world, and tomorrow’s workshops look to be the type that will be attended by people who are part of the business world.
I also need to be able to be dressed in whatever I choose for the entire day until about ten at night. I don’t think I’ll have the chance to come home and get changed before I meet the girls for dinner and go to see Loretta LaRoche.
This must be what the magazines mean by day to night outfits. I knew I should have paid closer attention!
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