Today is Friday. I only have one more full day on the farm before heading off to DC for a week. Crazy! I'm looking forward to a week off. I'm also very nervous about leaving Unicorn School to fend for itself for a week. Worst case, it'll be childcare instead of education. That's not so terrible. And then I'll come back refreshed. Yeah. That's the plan.

In other news, I woke up yesterday morning at 4-something with cramps so bad that I vomited. WHAT? This has never happened to me before. I don't like this. I hope that this is a fluke.

I worked a ten hour day on Wednesday. It didn't even feel that long. I did my usual things, but on top of that work I made cookies as an incentive for people to work in the hammock shop. And, of course, I had to work in the hammock shop during the cookies and milk event. Before you even know it, boom, I've worked ten hours.

Quota is officially linked to hammock production at this point. In other words, if we don't make enough hammocks in a week, the number of hours of work that each person has to do per week goes up until we do make enough hammocks. This is very frustrating for two types of people:
a) The people who work in the hammock shop all the time and can't make any more hammocks than they already do and
b) The people who never work in the hammock shop and will just be stuck doing more work in other areas when quota goes up.
It works OK for people who sometimes work in the hammock shop; it reminds us to get in there and make some hammocks. But it kind of just sucks all around. But, hey, it means that we sold hammocks, which means we're making money. How much can I complain about making money, really?

Anyway. I made cookies to lure people into the shop. I like making cookies a lot better than I like making hammocks, and my making cookies got hammocks made, so this seems like a win-win situation to me.

I have been having lots of conversations about children and education lately. (Imagine that.) It's really exciting to think about being a long-term member here. I mean, I'm babysitting baby Rosa once a week at this point. She's just starting to be able to sit up. But then she'll be a toddler and I'll be working with her at Unicorn School, and then she'll be elementary aged and I'll be working with her on reading and whatnot. I'm going to help her learn to read! I remember when she was just a bump in her mama's belly! This is so cool. I would not be able to do this if I were a teacher elsewhere; this longitudinal education thing is awesome.