So I understand it’s teacher appreciation week. How come I’m not feelin’ so appreciated?

*grumble*

I’m tired.

I have one more class to go. (yay!)

Sigh.

Whimper.

*hides under desk*

They were blatantly disrespectful in English this morning, and I had to get all stern with them. (this usually leads to giggles and muffled snickers.) But then they were better when I had them for Literature.

So?

40 minutes. I can do it…

This might be my new favorite thing on earth:

Chocolate covered ginger.

Tender pieces of young stem ginger in premium dark chocolate.

Ingredients: Semi sweet dark chocolate (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, milk fat, soy lecithin vanilla), ginger, cane sugar, dextrin and confectioner�s glaze.

Rand got some from a coworker as a birthday gift, and I ate nearly all of it. I could not stop myself. It was too tasty! Mmmmm…need more chocolate covered ginger.

So I went to the website for The Ginger People, and find that it’s ON SALE.

It’s a sign. 😉

Why is it that every week when Monday comes along, I’m *still* not ready for it? 🙂

I’m pretty much caught up on grading. That is, until my college students hand in their papers this week. I’m going to be buried…I want to have their grades finished in time for conferences next week. Eep! How is this semester over already? I guess it went fairly well, overall. There are definitely some things I’ll change if I teach this class again.

How’s this for coolness…yesterday, Rand discovered that he has an entry in Wikipedia. Now that’s fame. 😉

Be sure to check the 27 blog for new entries!

This weekend, I watched Regarding Henry, the first screenplay written by none other than…dum dum dum…JJ Abrams. But he was Jeffrey Abrams back then. I enjoyed it…it was a bit on the sentimental side, but I don’t mind that. And it has Annette Bening!
(Hmmm…he also wrote Forever Young, with Mel Gibson, which I have a vague recollection of seeing a long time ago.)

I did do a bit of reading…I’m almost done with the Marcus Borg book. Yay! Also read some of the Invisibles. Crazy stuff, that. And Rand warned me that I’m about to start the part where it “gets weird.” Hahahaha.

So I’m down to my last four weeks at the Catholic school. I’m going to miss some of them. Others, not so much. 😉

And finally, I’ve noticed some new readers (at least new commenters!) in the past week or so. Welcome to my humble home. Heehee…

Ok, I guess I have to run for now…happy Monday!

I’ve been told, more than once (by students), that I bear a striking resemblance to Velma from Scooby Doo.

Maybe it’s the dark hair and nerdy glasses? And do they mean cartoon Velma, or the cute actress from the movie? 😉

Anywho, today, three of the sixth grade girls came up to me with a Velma sticker, on which they had written:

Ms. N #1 sub!

How cute is that?

At least a month ago, Hilary tagged me on this book meme, and I’m making good on my promise to do it. 🙂

You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

I have to come clean and admit that I’ve never read this book. Isn’t that horrible?

That said, assuming like Hilary that I’m one of the book people who memorizes entire books, I guess I would take “A Wrinkle in Time,” it being my very favorite book and all.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

I think I must have…I probably had a little crush on Calvin O’Keefe. And if I were younger, I’d be all about Harry Potter. 😉

The last book you bought is:

Er…I don’t remember. I’ve been reading mostly books I already own, have borrowed, or have taken from the library.

4. The last book you read:

Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut

What are you currently reading?

Funny, I was just having this conversation with Jen last night…I used to be a person who would read one entire book before moving on to another one. These days, though, I seem to have several irons in the fire. Here’s what I’m reading now:

The Invisibles, Grant Morrison
Naked Pictures of Famous People, Jon Stewart
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Euginedes
The God We Never Knew, Marcus J. Borg

Five books you would take to a deserted island.

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle (because it’s my favorite book)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (hey, that counts…and it would keep me busy)
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood (because I own it and I haven’t read it yet, and I adore Margaret Atwood)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (again, because maybe I’d finally actually read it)
The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde (because it’s such great fun, and because I think I’d always find something new in it.)

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?
Ray, because I know he appreciates these things even though he doesn’t have a blog…he can email me or post his answers here. Rand, because it’s something he might actually post on his blog. 😉 And Jen, just because.

I had to move the 8th graders back into rows today, and they hate me again. Particularly the girls that I’ve had to separate because they talk too much.

“This is so unfair.”

“I hate sitting in the front.”

“I cannot *wait* until Mrs. F comes back.”

Sigh.

Also, I will not be sorry to see my Wednesday night community college class go. Really. I had another night where only about ten of them showed up. The week before a paper is due, the students are required to have rough drafts done. I devote most of the class time to doing in-class critiques and then making myself available for questions. I’ve never seen a group bolt so fast as they did last night. I’ll need to rethink this plan in the future.

I’m not going to be teaching any summer classes, because apparently summer evening classes go fast. Sigh. I didn’t want to take day classes, because I’m not sure what else I’m going to be doing. I will be back in the fall, however…hopefully as a supplement to my *real* teaching job.

I want today to be over.

I had a dream about X.

Specifically, I had a dream about X breaking up with me. I have this strange thing where, when I dream about men in my life (present or past), they seem to overlap. It’s happened before.

So it was most definitely X in the dream, but I was back at college. It was (I assume) graduation time, because it was Mother’s Day. Graduation at Allegheny was always on Mother’s Day. I’m not sure if I was graduating, but I was at a house similar to (but not quite) the house I lived in my senior year. X was being a complete and utter asshole, which he was prone to do at times…most often when he’d been drinking. I swore at him, and told him to get away from me. He told me he wished he could take more time talking to me, but “This day isn’t about you.” Whatever that meant…

I was also scheduled to take a final, but it was a performance-type final, and my theater professor had sent me a note to let me know. So I was freaking out about X breaking up with me, and I had to get to my final.

And as bizarre and surreal as it seems now as I type it, it was so real…I was so upset, and I just wanted a big giant hug from Rand when I woke up. 🙁

Freaky.

I’m thinking of changing my blog address.

eringoblog is not available, but I’ve already claimed eringobloggy. Thoughts? 🙂

Here’s a cute photo from this weekend:

And I kinda like this one of Rand:

(taken during the Ookla concert…lighting was crappy!)

More photos here. (by John Hall)

Debbie’s photos are online here.

🙂