Our third quarter ended yesterday and our grades for it are due by March 31st. Here is my terrible, fraught situation with regard to that ( Read more... )

I think my family is kind of worrying about me in this whole mess, because a) I've had pneumonia three times, bronchitis twice, pleurisy (how is that even a thing, after about 1890?) once; b) age (I'll be 54 in May); c) underlying conditions, baby, from Type 2 Diabetes to low-level asthma; and d) the last not-as-apocalyptic rodeo, I actually got ( Read more... )

Well, I did better than last year, and I think the year before, too, at reviving LJ posting over the summer. Tomorrow morning, shiny new seventh graders arrive (I guess they're slightly less shiny than the incoming sixth graders, but still). I was still fiddling around preparing the blank (but labeled at the bottom so that they'll be legible to ( Read more... )

It is almost 10:30, and I am not ready to go to bed and concede that my weekend is over. I also haven't eaten dinner, and that is stupid for numerous reasons, actual physical hunger being one of them. (In a follow up to my last entry more than a month ago... I have been able, so far, to continue doing pretty well in tracking and being regular ( Read more... )

I can't believe I didn't write anything this summer. It's been kind of... well, at Thursday's bullshit welcome-back-to-forced-blah-blah meeting we had to have "Circle Time", where our entire school site staff sat in a big circle outside in the glaring sun, and used 'speaking objects' to take turns sharing. Our first sharing question was to ( Read more... )

And things are calm, and kids are in a good mood, despite the fact that I am three class parties down, and three class parties to go. The cleaning-as-we-go thing is working well so far, hallefuckinglujah ( Read more... )

What an odd subject. I wish I knew where they got these. The repetitions convince me that it is not just farming, say, google searches ( Read more... )

That was the randomly generated topic (well, it was the topic after ten non-starters, many of them repeated non-starters ( Read more... )

Drinks to get you started in the morning ( Read more... )

History. That was easy ( Read more... )