Day 93: A Hit From The Lazy Stick

After yesterday’s fairly busy day, most of my time was spent faffing on some kind of electronic device or other.

Since I’ve been helping Mrs Pitts re-establish her iTunes library – in preparation for her birthday present – I’ve become increasingly jealous of the fact that she has been sorting out all the artwork for each item as she goes along. I have a playlist of somewhere in the region of 3200 (now) songs/podcasts/media that has no artwork on my iTunes account. It has always been something that I’ve been meaning to get around to sorting, but could never quite be bothered to tackle that list. I spent 3 hours today working on it and organised around 800 items. This is after fixing roughly 1000 the day before. So that means there was somewhere in the region of 5000 items without any artwork on there. I’m a bit of a musical geek – I’ll pretty much listen to anything and own a huge raft of different material. I will get that list down to a more manageable figure – maybe not this week or next, but by the summer, and by snatching a few hours here and there to work on it.

Alongside this, I am working on a massive list of online work for the Times Educational Supplement (TES). You may recall that I’ve written for them in the past and I am part of their Primary Maths Panel. However, this time, I’ve been asked to recategorise 951 different resources by giving them more detail. This isn’t the work of a moment. The TES site isn’t great to navigate, and all I have is a title and a string of numbers which I have to Google in order to locate the resource in the first place. This job is hanging over me now. 550 resources have been looked at, downloaded, read, considered and recategorised but it takes a good while to make any kind of progress on the list. This needs to be completed by the end of Easter – I can’t have it continuing on much longer than that.

In Kit news, she has not had a good day. Her vaccination yesterday has really hit her for six and she’s spent much of the day asleep. She appears to be moving around very gingerly – which makes a huge change to her usual full of life charging around. It’s very worrying still but, again, I know she will be ok. It’s just not very nice not being able to do anything to make her happy!

I did complete a small amount of work – a few graphs about my maths group’s progress, but tomorrow really will need to be full of work as I have to get something done by the end of the week.

I’m sure not all teachers work like this…