I haven't posted - I know. I just haven't felt like it. Just staring at the empty page. Honestly, it was like I had nothing to say, though things have happened. Last week - worked two days, one of which was at the 'new' job, my own school district. It was a good day. I have two days scheduled already for this week, this four day week. I keep ( Read more... )

Tomorrow it's back to work! I will spend the rest of the week in elementary school. So now we're going to see if our well-laid plans for Ry will work. I don't think there will be a problem. Just a whole lotta busy. I have a paper due the end of next week, we need to food shop, I'll be at a craft show on Saturday, and Hubby has to work on Sunday. ( Read more... )

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So, after breathing a sigh of relief that I wasn't saddled with jury duty (although I probably shouldn't be this happy - shouldn't people WANT to serve? I think I'll make that part of my creative nonfiction assignment piece, which is shaping up in my head quite nicely), I've settled in to the rest of the week. Paper for Women Writers - almost done ( Read more... )

* I've broken my own rule about writing the first draft all the way through, and gone back and revised a section of The Mirror of Yu-Huang. Because it wasn't working. Because Megan wasn't acting like herself, and it felt all wrong. There were things going on that made no sense, and the whole thing felt all...floaty.  The first third of the book ( Read more... )

*All three of my essays are done, at least in first draft. I await the verdict of the college writing center. Because I just don't have time or patience to revise, I'll let them make the suggestions and implement them. It's free editing/critiquing and it saves me oodles of time in the long run. Long live the Effective Writing Center!

*Why am I the ( Read more... )

 Snow day! The lovely snow is falling as I watch out the window of my sunroom, where I've had the laptop set up for over a week. I like being here. I like my whiteboard, and my own writing space. It's cluttered already - with textbooks, and post-it notes, and a copy of the newspaper interview I did last week. It'll get clean again soon. Believe it ( Read more... )

I'm preparing to take two online college courses this semester. English 311 (Brit. Lit. of the 17th and 18th century) begins next week. The prof has everything up on the WebTycho thingy, and I've figured out how to manage it. I even have at least one of the textbooks. The rest will be winging their way to me from Amazon, hopefully soon. I have the ( Read more... )

I'm still working. The same teacher, for three days in a row, and tomorrow too. Poor thing has vertigo. Vertigo! Ack! So she took off the rest of the week and I'm teaching Sixth Grade Science.  I didn't use her emergency plans, because on Tuesday I found her notes, and on Wednesday I found her copied worksheets, and she had her weekly lesson plan ( Read more... )