the real update

Adventures were had in the education library. I could probably go the rest of my life without having looked at another textbook, but alas, I have to go through the copies we made tomorrow. The Intern got to be my notes bitch (I'm sorry, I just... it's the years and years of being "the girl" in a science group and thus being "the secretary" that makes me SO FUCKING GLEEFUL when I get to turn it around) while I pulled out the content related to what we'd done/are going to do. I felt very smug knowing that the stuff I was working with based off of things I learned in school wasn't far off of the physics content required for kids in my state. Especially considering what I did for the redesign of the "lost astronaut" problem, which was the one that got the most positive feedback from kids.

Not that my bosses didn't know this, they just wanted stuff to back it up, because the Dept. of Ed. is all about the clicky boxes of standards. Considering how much darn time I spent looking up stuff for it last summer, I'm happy to see that we're more than on course. I GET YOU CURRICULUM. I'm kind of amazed I'd absorbed as much as I did, educationally.

The Intern is thoroughly entertaining as he's just graduated from high school and going to some Special College, which resulted in me snickering and possibly embarrassing him (I can't help it!). He also hasn't played many video games, and I tortured him with my crazy mixed CD in my car as we had our adventure. He has now been given a chair, so he doesn't have to sit on the floor. He has a teenie tiny laptop amongst a room full of Desktop Replacement varieties and we kind of rib him a little. In a good way. It's not a day in the Fun Room if someone hasn't made a size or ninja joke. It just isn't.

I have also learned that half of the office are major Dragonforce fans as they hijacked our media center to play a concert from them. Minion J is particularly fond of Metal, so there is much hilarity watching his eyes light up when dudes playing guitar with fire in the background are on our big screen. I have also been informed being slightly interested in fashion theory is not terms for my nerd license being revoked as there was a three person argument amongst us about what qualified as personal iconography. For serious.

Also, shit like this is awesome. BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT I DO AT WORK!!! Almost. These are our GOALS.

I love workdays like this. Tomorrow we debate the feasibility of mutant plants and how to turn a rocket launcher into a cargo craft.

~Cendri