Like you hadn’t already noticed this…
I’m actually having one of my periodic “what the heck am I doing with this blog” moments. So, in addition to being crazy busy, I’m also taking this time to think about how I want to proceed. For how long? I really don’t know, but I will let you know as soon as I do.
Feel free to leave me your well-wishes!
I have to read both A Raisin in the Sun and Of Mice and Men within the next week.
We have open house tonight.
Interim grades have to be in tomorrow, and I still have a bunch of essays to grade.
I wrote six discipline referrals today.
Thankfully, I’m giving a test in two of my classes tomorrow…that should be a good opportunity for me to get some things accomplished.
In other news…I received an issue of The Martha (TM: Eden) in my mailbox yesterday, courtesy of Jen! 😉
I’ve been told to keep watching my mailbox, so who knows what the mailman will bring me next? Stay tuned, and thanks, Jen!
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! 😀
And happy anniversary to my good friend Eden.
As for me, I’m just happy it’s a Friday. Now where did I put my rum?
I’m back, to post a silly pirate joke:
A pirate walks into a bar, and he has a steering wheel sticking out of the front of his pants.
The bartender says, “Hey, do you know you’ve got a steering wheel sticking out of the front of your pants?”
And the pirate says, “Arrrr, it’s drivin’ me nuts!
Thanks, folks…I’m here all week…
So last week, one of my students says, “Hey, I just figured out who you look like! That lady from The Incredibles!”
Um…I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean it as a compliment. 😉
Still trying to keep caught up, never mind, y’know, actually getting ahead…
I’m pretty sure I had some other things to say, but they’re all escaping me at the moment. One of these days, my brain will function normally again. I’ll keep you posted.
Tags: school, edna, the incredibles
It’s clear that I’m never going to get around to writing about all of the things I’ve been up to recently, so here is a bullet-point list in no particular order:
There’s probably more, but that’s all I’ve got for now…
So, I still haven’t carved out any time to write…but I did upload some of the photos that were on my camera. To prove how long it’s been, I give you a birthday card I got from Samantha:
She finds good cards. I need to know where she gets them. 😉
We also took some photos at Rand’s cousin’s wedding two weekends ago. Here’s one that I particularly liked:
Rand wants me to let you all know that he took it. 😉
More photos here. Enjoy!
And I collapse into an exhausted puddle of goo.
Things have gone well. I’ll give a more extensive update when I have more energy.
We have a lot of little things planned this weekend, so I will not likely be spending much time in front of the computer.
Happy Friday, all! Go celebrate the return of the Pumpkin Spice syrup at Starbucks. 😉
Recently, a conversation I had with Rand reminded me of this song, and this video, which makes me cry and cry. Admittedly, I’m an easy mark…but still. Here’s “Not That Different” by Collin Raye.
*sniff*
Jonathan Grim is a guy from my hometown. When I logged in to facebook this afternoon to see my updates, I saw a whole bunch of these. I thought it was amusing, so I took a screenshot. 😀
I hope Jon doesn’t mind…
I am positively overwhelmed by reading material right now.
Last week, in anticipation of the beginning of school, I ordered Teaching Outside the Box by LouAnne Johnson. (LouAnne Johnson is the teacher who wrote the book that inspired the movie Dangerous Minds.) So far, it’s fantastic.
I also received a slightly belated birthday package from Stephanie, which included Dead Until Dark, the first book in Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire series, as well as Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.
I bought a few books at the Scholastic Sale that I would like to read, including an Anna Quindlen novel I was unaware of.
Rand ordered me some cool books from Canada–a series of YA novels by Sean Cullen. You may recognize Sean from Last Comic Standing.
Or, if you’re like me, you may know him as a member of Corky and the Juice Pigs.
At any rate, his humor is weird and utterly hilarious. I’m very much looking forward to the books.
On top of all the reading I’d like to do for fun, of course, I have the required school reading…among the books I’ll be teaching this year:
I did my master’s project on teaching Shakespeare to high school students, and just about every scholar agrees that Julius Caesar should be ditched from the high school curriculum. Apparently no one is listening. Ah well…I’ll do my best to make it interesting, and promise not to make them memorize and recite “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears…” (which is the ONLY thing I remember about reading this play in high school. seriously.)
Hmmm…overwhelmed much? 😉 In all seriousness, though, I’m beyond excited about this job. And I’ll try my best to squeeze in some reading for pleasure among all the edumacational stuff. 😉
Well, I guess I’d better get to work!
