I love my job right now.

I tutor kids 5 days a week. 3-5 hours a day. It is glorious. It would be even better if I had a full time job doing it, but I don't.

Today was a good day. I had my two autistic kids. One of whom cracks me up. He is so funny. We sing songs while he does his work. Kind of like this: "L does his work. Lalala. L does a good job. Lalala. Let's do some work. Lalala." It's a blast. There is a lot of "boobadooboo" as well.

The other autistic child I usually have alone, because well, he's a crazy boy. He draws machines that take his spelling words and change them into steam, which turns the motors. Today though I had with another boy who is probably on the verge of being autistic. That was interesting. One boy doing math the other boy reading. This was a snipet of conversation with the three of us:

Me: D, What's 47 + 2?
D: 48?
Me: Not quite. What's 47 + 1?
D: 48?
Me: Good. Now what's 48 + 1?
D: 49?
Me: Right. So 47 + 2 equals 49. Because we skip 48.
D: ohh okay.
Me: So what's 49 + 2?
D: EIGHTY!
Me: umm.. no. Try again. Add two to 49.
D: 82, 84....100
Me: (while D is counting) C, we're going to do some spelling. On your conveyor belt can you spell "walked" for me. Remember we're using silent letters!
C: But the man hasn't turned the machine on.
Me: Well, we'll have to put the words on first, and then he can turn the machine on when we mark the words.
C: Okay.
C&D: laugh because D has now reached 120 after counting from 82 to 100, and then skipping to 120.
Me: *sigh*

C eventually spelled walked wactd, and C counted from 27 - 39, it just took us about 10 minutes.