two hundred public words 30/30
Wow. I have done it. I didn't write every single day. But I did write thirty entries in thirty days, which were all public, and all at least 200 words. It is funny that tonight, I am writing the last of these entries on a break between a vast purging and cleaning and giving away spree -- the organizing for that. After five years of teaching in the district I am now in, I have not brought my classroom library of over 1300 books to my school. I am finally divesting myself of it, on Friday, when the $30 Dollar Haulers will come and take it away.
Of course, I couldn't give the boxes away unopened. I had to sort through each one of the 28 boxes and pull out the curriculum guides I still want, the teaching files from my first few years of teaching (damn, I was good), and the best of the books. Many of the ones I took out, to keep, are ones I have reviewed in this series. I found a bunch of paperback Patricia Beatty, which makes me glad. And The Jazz Kid, which I thought I had. And A Parcel of Patterns, and the whole All of a Kind Family series. And lots and lots of the Dear America hardbacked historical diaries series. Really good authors often wrote for that series -- Kathryn Lasky and Laurence Yep, for instance.
Oh, I dallied chatting with someone, and now I am into the new day, sigh. That's all right. I think I am going to drink some more water and then go back to sorting books to give away. It would be wonderful to finish tonight.
Of course, I couldn't give the boxes away unopened. I had to sort through each one of the 28 boxes and pull out the curriculum guides I still want, the teaching files from my first few years of teaching (damn, I was good), and the best of the books. Many of the ones I took out, to keep, are ones I have reviewed in this series. I found a bunch of paperback Patricia Beatty, which makes me glad. And The Jazz Kid, which I thought I had. And A Parcel of Patterns, and the whole All of a Kind Family series. And lots and lots of the Dear America hardbacked historical diaries series. Really good authors often wrote for that series -- Kathryn Lasky and Laurence Yep, for instance.
Oh, I dallied chatting with someone, and now I am into the new day, sigh. That's all right. I think I am going to drink some more water and then go back to sorting books to give away. It would be wonderful to finish tonight.