Well, I think these three days off from work have helped my cough somewhat, but I still have it, although it's not as horrible as it was on Tuesday, nor is it as frequent.
I talked to my dad last night online, and he and Mom are going to Las Vegas this weekend for Mom's birthday, so that's pretty exciting for them. I wish I could go along, but it must be a "parents only" thing because a couple of their friends are going along with. Ahh well, I get to see gambling every day I'm at work.
We finally kicked one of the coupon scalpers out of our casino. He's a person who comes in every day (and on every shift, so three times a day), with a "Buy $10, get $2 free!" coupon. The cashier will give him $12 worth of cashout tickets for the machine, probably a $10 and two ones, or a couple fives and a couple ones...whichever. He'll disappear for about 15 minutes or so, and miraculously come back with a ticket for $12 every time. I think I may have ranted about him last week or something. So anyway, one of the floor supervisors told the coupon guy, "We know what you are doing, and it's going to stop. You're not allowed to use coupons here, and you're banned from the casino." The coupon guy said, "Wow, that's a little harsh. Can't I just gamble here, but not use coupons?" So the floor supervisor agreed to that. But guess what? When you don't actually gamble because you're picking up a free $2 from us every day, it's hard to come in and gamble at all. So guess who we haven't seen at the casino for a while? That's right. Oh darn.
We've been having beautiful weather here, but unfortunately, the warmer the weather becomes directly corresponds with the size of the spiders that I find lurking in the apartment. *Shudder* I hate those little buggers, and Aaron doesn't believe in killing things, so I just end up using hairspray or Pledge and drowning them in toxic liquids. Makes me sleep better at night, that's for sure!
I met with my cooperating teacher who I will be student teaching for next semester, so that was exciting. It's not starting to feel more real or anything like that, as we've only been out of school for two weeks so far, and that leaves another three months until school starts up again...but I know I'm going to have to start reviewing 4th grade content standards for South Dakota, and see what the little buggers are learning so I can be prepared for the semester.
Even though I don't really want to keep doing this, I'm going to; with one semester left, I have to, pretty much. Then I'll be done. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm prepared enough to be responsible for 10 and 11 year olds for three whole weeks (yikes!), but I know that once I get submersed in it, I'll do fine. I'll get the hang of it, and I'll just go with the flow. Hopefully the teacher will have quite a bit of what she wants them to learn mapped out for the semester, so I can just go with that and do my own little variations or twists on her ideas. I don't think I can come up with a whole semester from scratch, just coming out of college! Eeep! It's gonna be scary...but it will all be over soon. Enough.
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