A day of tricks

It can be hard to capture the attention of kids the day after Halloween with the world of math. We had wild kids in all of our classes today, and our intentions for math-centered instruction was diverted by discipline issues at times.  Also, I was preparing for my observation on Wednesday, so I spent the planning period incorporating my teacher's feedback.  However, as I went to save the file, I saw an erroneous message that my hard disk was full.  I spent my lunch trying various methods to save the file so that I could send a copy to my clinical faculty.  I was not able to save the file, so I printed a copy, restarted the computer, and spent an hour this evening redoing my revisions.  In addition, I tried to print a color copy at school today, only to discover that the color printer was not working (although it looked fine in the print queue).  All this drama drove home the fact that it's important to plan ahead of time!