Tutor training indigestion.

Mind still reeling from the tutor training, I realize that I'm doing my student no favors until I have time to incorporate what I learned. The activities suggested... what activities can I do?

I've only had conversation and breaking up the class by going out to do something in the past. None of these classroom games. I'm not sure I have time to design a game.

I realize I need to do more review within the class. And I need to lay out a five week plan with specific benchmarks rather than playing it by ear and considering my tutoring to be an adjunct to the structured learning in her ESL class.

The question is: when?

This weekend there's another all-day training session (glug, glug), I found out my group for HIS 210 is meeting on Sunday, I have to re-write my first-draft essay tonight, and my India test is due Monday morning.

I have a seven-day week.

( On learning and family names )

Shout out for a Beta

singtoangels has been a doll helping with the Percy Ficathon site. So she asked me if I could find her a beta for her story.

Well, I couldn't find one right away, so darn it, I volunteered to do it myself.

I am cursing up a storm right about now.

I stayed home from school today, as I have an all-day conference on Saturday and a group project meeting on Sunday. I relaxed this morning by going through her story with a fine-toothed comb. Now, I'd only saved it to the Temp folder, but I just stepped away for a bit because WG wanted to check his email. Of course he took over. All I asked was that he not close any of my files.

Yahoo was running a bit slow, so he closed some programs.

Including the story.

It's gone. I searched with Explorer and all I find is a broken shortcut. I've checked the Temp files, everything. It's vanished.

I've used up my allotment. I don't have any large patches of free time until Tuesday afternoon. That's why I took today off. Hell.

I'm going to take another shot at finding singtoangels a beta.

Would anyone like to beta her story?

There were no SPAG errors, and only a few word recommendations. Everything I wrote had to do with clarification, story development and characterisation. She's the same person who wrote Idyllic Days for the Percy Ficathon.

Now tonight WG and I are going to review the basics of Microsoft Word 101: Saving Files, because this is not the first time. Though this is partially my fault. I popped it open and started typing instead of saving it first.