Jen Shontz is back in town! Woohoo. She is as insane as ever. She called me last night to inform me that she was eating two donuts for dinner because it was raining. Still not sure how that works, but whatever. I'm now running off to read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with her. Catch ya'll later! :)

So. I love swimming. And when I have access to a pool (such as when I am home in the summer) I try to go swimming as often as possible. Happily, the nice life-guards always put a lane in for me so I don't have to swim around the urchins who use the pool for playing instead of lap-swimming. Now, I have nothing against children playing. In fact, ( Read more... )

Christina has asked when I'd be posting here again, so I thought I'd go ahead and give this another shot. I can't promise anything, though, because I'm really no good at journals of any kind ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in my classroom, watching the 8th graders take their history final. In about an hour I'll be watching them take their math final, then I get to go home at 10:35am...hehehe. Meanwhile, my bio students are taking their final in the upper school. I hope they all take at least 90 mintutes or I'll be in trouble ( Read more... )

That is Morgan Freeman's line to Kevin Costner in Robin Hood. It keeps running through my head because all I'been able to think about all day is HOW MUCH MY DAMN NECK HURTS ( Read more... )

I'm back from visiting Jen S. in DC! Wow, we had a great time...if strange at times. We hiked though the woods in different areas and I fell in a stream while attempting to cross it by jumping on rocks. We also watched a lot of weird movies involving grizzly deaths. Yikes. This was then countered by watching Shark Tales and The Great Mouse ( Read more... )

Woohooo ( Read more... )

Ok so my last post now seems melodramatic. But thats ok. I return with a less dramatic, but very happy tale ( Read more... )

Do not listent to panicky children before writing their test. It will make you feel nice and you will write a test that is probably too easy ( Read more... )

Ok, so I've been gone about 2 months -- at least from the internet. Anyone who knows what my current job is will understand ( Read more... )