{"id":3825,"date":"2020-01-14T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2020-01-14T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T05:18:08","slug":"im-not-kidding-why-do-they-always-think-im-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/14\/im-not-kidding-why-do-they-always-think-im-kidding\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not kidding! Why do they always think I&#8217;m kidding???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The middle school started ACT Aspire testing this morning, and I drew the short stick. I burned the entire morning sitting in Sara&#8217;s office, and only got called out twice &#8211; both times to unlock a door in the counselors&#8217; room because someone forgot their key. At one point, Robin brought the counselors to talk to me about trying to get their campus to a 1:1 device ratio so they could test all the kids at once. I vehemently replied that we should instead be reducing the device count, and that testing everyone at once is a very bad idea. I&#8217;m still surprised when people are shocked to hear me say as much.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody wanted to join me at Ruby Tuesday for another $5 salad bar, so I went by myself and just sat at the bar. It was a quick and quiet lunch, but not inside my head. A group of employees were mingling at the other end of the bar talking mad trash about how people had been coming in all day asking for John. John&#8217;s served my tables many times in the past. He is far and away one of the best servers I&#8217;ve ever had at any restaurant. He&#8217;s always courteous, professional, prompt, and most importantly conscious of what&#8217;s happening at the table. Even today, he stopped by to say hello, commenting that I wasn&#8217;t with my usual posse. Never once has he even suggested that we should ask for him by name, and I honestly don&#8217;t feel like that has anything to do with why people do so. If any of those employees spent half as much time hustling as leaning, maybe they&#8217;d have eager repeat customers.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, Allen drove me out to London so I could show him that he didn&#8217;t properly re-enroll a Chromebox after powerwashing it. I figured I had already burned half a day, so I might as well get a trip out of it. When we got back, I spent a little time at the shop before heading to the high school. I got a very little bit done. My Adobe form was printing unpredictably.<\/p>\n<p>My evening flew by as usual. I went home for a little while before going to Walmart for some things. I needed cat food, and wanted to peruse for a while without someone nagging about it. It&#8217;s funny, because I used to always want someone to go with me, but oftentimes now it&#8217;s more peaceful just to go alone at my own pace. I picked up some cold fried chicken on a whim in case anyone was hungry, and headed up to Summer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>We ended the evening with some more\u00a0<em>Glee<\/em>. There&#8217;s just something about that show that completely sucks me in emotionally.<\/p>\n<p><em>So blame it on my ADD, baby.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middle school started ACT Aspire testing this morning, and I drew the short stick. I burned the entire morning sitting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,4,6,41,27],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-anxiety","tag-lessons","tag-reviews","tag-television","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3826,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}