Day in the Life

In case you've been curious why I don't post anymore, we are in week four of the summer program here at Prep Center, and it turns out that having a regular nine-to-six type job actually has made me more busy than before, leaving little time for writing anything other than G-chat status updates. But for your reading pleasure, here are a few random tidbits to give you a feel for what my day looks like above and beyond the generic duties of keeping track of students, teachers, and curriculum.

Things I Googled Today:

1. Smashing Pumpkins

2. Definition of a Participle

3. The distance between 644 Landfair and my house (1.9 miles)

4. Counseling jobs in Los Angeles

5. SAT testing policies

6. TAP passes for the Metro

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Things I Taught Someone Today:

1. How to make egg drop soup - more specifically, how to drop said egg into the soup.

2. Why the word "tempted" is not past tense and therefore appropriate for a literary essay (see also above, number 2).

3. How to prioritize tasks when you have missing assignments that are over a week late in all of your classes.

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Geek Out!!

Find the errors in the following example sentences for vocabulary words in The Princeton Review's 2006 edition of Cracking the New SAT:

"Many Jews left Russia and emigrated to Israel after it was founded in 1948."

"Lou's taste in music is eclectic because he listens to everything from rap to polka."

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Regarding My Lunch (Half) Hour:

Number of Tuesdays in a row that I've had Chinese food for lunch: 4

Estimated number of Orange Chicken lunch specials I have ordered from China Wok: 27

Best fortune cookie prediction: "Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else's water lily."

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Teacher Quote of the Day:

"I love your outfit today. You look like Minnie Mouse. In a good way."

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Current project I'm working on: finding fun, non-touristy stuff to do in the San Francisco area for our college tour coming up in August.

Current project my assistant is working on: typing sets of 100 SAT vocabulary words and making corresponding quizzes.

Current project my boss is working on: creating a motivational seminar for incoming 8th and 9th graders based on The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.