So this morning at work, we had some professional development with the whole middle school and high school teaching staff. First thing they had us do is truck out to the courtyard and line up by seniority in the district... without talking, of course ( Read more... )

How strange... no new posts on my f-list so far today ( Read more... )

Uhoh... it's March as of tomorrow! It's time for that most lovely time of school year: the Michigan Merit Exam ( Read more... )

I found this amusing... but in a sad way ( Read more... )

I'm having a hard time getting this through my head. The school year is really done? I don't have to give student X the absent work for a fifth time, never to see it again? No more getting crap when I confiscate a cell phone that rings during class? No foot-high pile of work to grade? No more wondering who is going to pass and who is going to ( Read more... )

Yay antibiotics! Should be recovered by the end of the week, in time for Terpsichore ( Read more... )

It's only just occurred to me this week that it's Daylight Savings switch this weekend, mostly because of all the computer crap happening at work (still no internet access, and during 4th hour, the entire system completely crashed and no one can even log onto a computer to use the darn things). And this has led me to ponder one really big question ( Read more... )

( The crappy stuff early on )

No, not happy about car, although it is now fixed. Not covered by warranty, and less than my deductable, but it wasn't too bad -- $160 ( Read more... )

While looking for some DNA games for my bio students tomorrow, I found this treasure trove of silly educational games based on Nobel Prize winning research!