An hour and a half ago, I walked out of school a free woman. Well, free for the next ten weeks or so. I think I'll take a nap to celebrate.

Now tomorrow, after I've been able to sleep in, it will hit me, and then I'll do a happy dance of joy. And I'll really mean it.

The weather forecast has been for the biggest winter storm in years to hit our area. It was to start snowing overnight and continue throughout the day. When my alarm went off this morning, there was snow on the ground, so I checked my computer to see what was happening at school today. I was hoping for a two hour delay but didn't expect to see even ( Read more... )

Today was one of those days that stretched my patience to its limit. We had about 50-60 7th graders for most of the day, many of whom were behaving badly. At the end of the last bell, I was interrupted by a student who was plucking my last nerve ( Read more... )