Today a number of the juniors, who are the people I would be friends with if I were their age or vice versa, mostly the choir, came after school and presented me with a card, a storybook about me, and a slideshow that was set to Wicked's "For Good ( Read more... )

Today was beautiful, one of those days I got to go in and rejoice with the kids about how much sleep we all got to have, coming in at 8:40 instead of 7:50. Mmmhmm ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about taking on the habit of glee!ing in the mornings ( Read more... )

Today is beautiful. Get to school early, ear cinnamon crumpets and strawberries for breakfast, kids relatively sane, grades all sent in, lots of fruit at lunch, and tea, and listening to stories, cleaned my classroom up some more, freshmen built and decorated the ark of the covenant, after school wandering sophomores give me cake, pizza at Za's ( Read more... )

I don't think I want to do the formal year-in-review thing, because I don't want to answer the "richer or poorer? happier or sadder?" questions ( Read more... )

Today, during my afternoon nap, I had the first good dream I've had in about three weeks ( Read more... )

whoever invented 13-hour days was a stupidhead.

but hey! we have a pumpkin from the farmshare! And a spaghetti squash! Woohoo!

I forget that teaching makes me feel so exhausted I can't keep my eyes open, and feeling exhausted leads me to drink coffee, and drinking coffee makes me feel like a zombie and have flashbacks to the insomnia scenes in Fight Club ( Read more... )

Let's pretend for a second that you are a theology teacher. You have to assign summer reading for the freshmen, who are becoming sophomores. They just finished learning Hebrew Scriptures and they are going to take Christology (Gospels and Letters of Paul) and Church History. They are also switching Catholic attitudes, from an admittedly liberal ( Read more... )

Today I caught up on ALL of my grading ( Read more... )