The teacher was sick so we had class over Zoom tonight. My basic videos are done so all I had to do was listen and give my feedback. We take turns wearing different colored “hats” and the color of the hat determines the feedback we are giving. Mine was the black hat which is the hat for constructive criticism. The black hat is harder because as counselors we tend to be more positive and affirming people.

But I still liked it. Next week is the bigger grid presentation which I signed up for then so I could go and get it over with. Today was a pretty laid-back day. The boys did school and I don’t remember what I did. It’s been a long week with the sickness and school hours and losing more sleep. Last night my son and I ended up in the living room with him on the couch and me on a mattress still there from election night.

We did do Algebra together. Sometimes they ask for math help when I’m about to do something else so I tell them I can help after I finish the other thing. I tell them all the time that math is never as hard as it looks because there’s always a trick that makes the hard problem much easier. They write the problem to make it look scary but when you break it down you see that it was actually easier than it looked.