Last week, and this week are all about data....

Any foo other than data just takes a back seat right now as I try to get data pulled together for the Title II report.  It's really really ugly.  The state agency responsible for licensure is providing information about enrolled students and completers....how the heck would they know that?  It's obvious from the data that they don't, at all.  It's probably about 50% or less correct.   I spent all of last week cross checking their data against mine and recreating a list.  This week is about finding the last 4 of SSN's (which we aren't supposed to keep) so that the testing company can match records with ours...my only way to do that is go to the testing company's website and look up each student to grab the last 4 from their record.  A little circuitous, since this is going to the testing company when I'm done anyway. *sigh*    Then I'll have to check the list of students they couldn't match to see if they changed their name or if they really don't have testing records.

The job stuff?  I'm assuming it's not personal since I am partially responsible for writing my PD.  I think it's ignorance and carelessness and we can fix it.  And...they haven't given me 4 months notice of intent to not renew so I should have a job for the next year.  I should still look at some of the other positions but inertia has me firmly in it's grasp.  I've also been busy supporting the food drive afterwork by making items for a silent auction.

These necklaces will be auctioned off individually.  The sparkly one isn't my creation, I just made it into a necklace.  The others are a variety of semi-precious stones that I had in my stash.  I'm now, almost out of beads, which is fine, I don't use them often and usually want something specific anyway.

The following cards will be auctioned off as a set...I like them and kinda want to keep them.  So far there has been no interest so I may just get to do that:






These are all stamped and watercolored then put into card format in various ways.  I think this represents about 20 hours worth of work and if they are appreciated, I'm glad to do it.

Saturday morning was spent doing various yard tasks (although I refuesed to mow in February).  I pruned the rosebushes, cleaned out the rectangular garden beds, and cleaned the blackberries out from behind the trellis.  In the process, I found a skeletalized dead cat, which made me sad and wondering if I could have/should have known there was a cat in distress, and I found several dozen carrots still in the garden that hadn't been harvested in the fall.  Some had rotted but there were still quite a number of good looking, edible carrots.  The rest of the day involved a nap and finishing the above shown cards.

And that, my friends, was last week in a nutshell.  Now I'm moving forward into this week but I'm feeling a bit cranky.  I'm hoping a visit to the chiropractor this evening will help improve my mood.  Bending and twisting are not friends of my SI joint this week.