Particularly since sonflower886 cannot stalk me on facebook any more access other social networking sites, I'm really trying to write here more often.

I had a delightful moment on the phone (to call it a conversation would be a stretch I think) with a student's parent today. The student has been out sick a lot this trimester (according to the student herself, ( Read more... )

Sorry, I just needed not to have another post titled 'stuff' or 'updatery'. This title has nothing whatsoever to do with the following blurb.

Funny, short post by otterdance here.

Tests back from two classes today. One was pretty dang good. The other, which I expected to be the deepest pit of black shame, was  only a somewhat deepish pit of charcoal-gray ( Read more... )

From-recent-experience teaching lesson No.1: high school boys (not unlike pre-school and elementary and middle school and college boys) are endlessly fascinate with body humor. And so, should you ever find yourself attempting to explain the case system of an inflected language like Latin to a class of ... well one with boys in it, and one of them ( Read more... )

Sister is gone. My apartment was a little empty last night. Not that she spent most nights in our house, but there was a sort of finality about it.

Teacher's meeting tonight. Vic &Modern Lit final exam tomorrow. Applied Lit. Crit. starts Monday (we're reading Frankenstein!!)

And a fun link, courtesy of my mom: Sword Care

I may have said much of this preamble before, but just to catch everyone up to speed: My very dear friend, Desiree, gets married Saturday. I'm headed out tomorrow ... morning (is it really past 3am already?) to help with the last of the preparations and for the rehearsal and its dinner tomorrow evening. She chose me as the Maid of Honor.

My post- ( Read more... )

... going to be a Latin and English teacher in the fall!!! I got the call a few minutes ago and I actually have to call my new boss back. I'm still working the DSS job over the summer and since we're in the thick of finals (busiest time of year for my direct supervisor here) I'm going to wait until next week to tell her that I'm not likely to have ( Read more... )

Check it out: monstropedia.org

Who knew studying for a Greek poetry exam could be so much fun?

New words on Fail With Honor tonight: 350ish.

Got the Greek exam back. The one I was fairly sure was guaranteed to wreck my GPA. Yeah, mercy grade or otherwise, squeaked by with a low A on it. Also took the first Mythology exam. Think that went fairly well, but we'll see.

Ok, so we weren't strictly 'studying' for all twelve hours ... but the Greeks just left my house, slightly after 2 in the morning the night before our test. I don't think I've ever 'crammed' for a test like this before. Part of this is my own fault, I'll admit. Part of it was because there was a change in testing procedures from last semester to ( Read more... )

My myspace mood yesterday evening: mentally winded. Wednesday included the regular battery of work and classes  in addition to the  grueling Literature exam and both making a presentation and receiving a paper back in Italian History.

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