Thursday, January 22, 2009

Another day at the high school, but it was far from routine. The librarian had a sudden emergency and she asked me to take over the class she was teaching, which wasn't on a good track anyway due to technical difficulties. I totally tried to wing it with mixed results (I did get them into the library catalog and into a few online databases and cajoled them into staying on task for a little while at least, but I had no idea what they were actually supposed to be doing). The substitute teacher had even less of a clue and was not too happy that we weren't doing what the teacher she was subbing for said we'd be doing. While I was walking through some things with the students in the computer lab I looked out into the main library and saw 40 students waiting to check out a novel for their English class. Our TA was missing (where did he go and why did he think he could leave, especially without checking with me?). So I left the computer lab hanging to go check out books. A crazy comedy of errors. But pretty entertaining, at least from a library tech's perspective. I don't think the substitute was entertained at all! Back at the high school later in the evening for my first guitar class. Very, very fun!