Day 17 - Los Angeles lifts its vaccine mandate. A vax card is no longer required.

It’s the first day of school for my fully online class at College No. 2…

4/16/22. Saturday

8:30-9:00 - L. has a “private” scheduled today. I usually ready the Studio for her when she has a client scheduled.

9:00-9:30-I go downstairs to greet the animal and she’s still asleep on the couch. I sit next to her for kisses and cuddles and then she grabs her toy and we go outside. I survey my plants while she goes potty. Return inside and coffee for me, cheese for her. I turn on the light panels in L.’s studio, make sure it’s clean and organized, and light a scented candle. I go upstairs.

9:30-10:30- Shower. I sit in the shower, drink my coffee, and ice my eyes. Lotion. I put on gray leggings and a black zip-up hoodie.

10:30-10:45-I sweep the patio where the trash cans are in case L. needs to open the side door for air flow while she’s teaching.

11:00-L’s “private” arrives. While L. is teaching;

11:00-11:30-I clean the downstairs bathroom in case the student needs to use the ‘restroom.’

11:30-12:30-I make a piece of toast with butter and peanut butter and take it upstairs.

1:00-1:15-The “private’s” parents have arranged for L. to drive their daughter home. L. leaves for transport. Today’s lesson appears to have been successful.

-L. Leaves for her 2:00 PM shift at the Paseo Club

2:00-2:30 - I have cheese and crackers for lunch. Then;

3:00-3:45 - I walk the dog and we take the paseo again. This seems to work better for her as there are fewer people and dogs around. I listen to Film Week on AirTalk.

4:00-9:00-Blog posts

-bullet journal

9:00-9:30-I have an avocado and read Women in the Picture.

9:30-11:00-Today is the first day of my Online class at College No. 2 so I check in to see how the students are doing. The first day of school for a fully Online class can be confusing, but a few of the students have successfully signed in on the Discussion Board per the instructions. One student weakly emailed, “Hello - is anybody there?“ Kind of funny. I respond with a warm email. Spoiler Alert: I will grow to hate this student over the next 8 weeks. His constant refrain is as follows: “I completed [insert assignment here] and my overall grade didn’t change” when, in fact, it DID change. It went down instead of up because the student consistently failed the majority of the Video/Podcast quizzes which means he didn’t bother to watch any of them. He will send me the same email, repeatedly, every week, for 8 weeks.

-I send a lengthy email to my crazy high school student at College No. 1 informing her that her grade slipped from a C to a D last week and now it is too late to withdraw with a W. She can’t say she wasn’t notified. I’m not going down for this…

-I post an Announcement to the Core Class Canvas shell at College No. 1 that there are four Inquizitives due by Monday at midnight and I list the Inquizitives. I also send an email blast. I have Organized Money videos playing in the background.

-A student points out that one of the assignments on the list I just emailed them is incorrect. Damn! I HATE when I do that. I update the announcement and send a corrected email blast.

-I ready class content for my Monday classes, then check the Discussion Board for my Core Class.

-A few Socratic Seminar assignments were submitted early so I print them out and notify the students that I’m in receipt of their essays.

-One of my students from Specialty Class 1B emails me with the question, “What are we doing tomorrow?” Can you imagine? What a dumbass. I don’t even bother responding with an email explaining the itinerary. I just reply with the Syllabus, no explanation.

-One of my students from Specialty Class 1B is in India and needs me to email her the two quizzes that she missed. Unfortunately, I don’t have them in a Word document and I have to create the quizzes by hand. This means I need to manually input 20 questions and their corresponding four answers per each question [80 answers] into a Word document and send them to her. It sucks.

11:00-12:30-I upload my blog posts.

12:30-2:00-bullet journal and I work on another blog post.

2:15-3:00-Nighttime routine. Bed