Testing Fallout

[manoah]

There has to be a better way.

There are 33 computers in the lab. Each day I have to walk around to each machine and:

1. Turn them on.
2. Enter the initial password.
3. Open the testing program.
4. Enter the program password.
5. Choose the correct test from dropdown menus.
6. Enter the correct student.

Being the tall woman that I am, I have to bend and, obviously now, twist to perform these functions unless I sit at each computer. Which I don't because it takes too much time. At the beginning of each testing day it takes half an hour to get the lab set. I start work at 9am and testing begins at 9:15. I've been going to work early, getting there at 8:30 to set the lab up.

The first twos step just take two walking passes around the room. The next 4, I have to use the mouse and as a result I've tweaked the hell out of my left shoulder. So much so that I could barely move it last night. Owie.

I broke down and took a pain pill last night. Now I'm all fuzzy headed and bleh.

I have the sinking suspicion that I need to go in at 8, sit at each computer or by the end of the third week of testing my left side will be useless.

One day I'll stop using this journal to complain. Or not.