Well. Almost the end of another month. This month has seen a flurry of activity about NHS (I've said out loud at least twice this week to a coworker: "this job sucks," so even though the process went as smoothly as last year -- and more quickly! -- there are still some seriously unfun parts of it), a flurry of grading (and somehow still never ( Read more... )

Oh my. I didn't realize a month had gone by ( Read more... )

This week has included the following ( Read more... )

This week I completed an unimpressive trifecta: I attended JV, freshmen, and Varsity football games. (We lost the first two; we won, tonight!) (My attendance-at-games tally for the year is 1 volleyball game, 1 CC meet [2nd will be tomorrow], 2 softball games [including one that went to 12 innings and so should count as two games], and 5 football ( Read more... )

Sometimes I forget that I am change-averse, and that anything *new* -- new students, old students in a new grouping, new periods for planning, new cleaning lady, new phone -- takes me an extraordinarily long time to adjust to. (I'm so sad about the maintenance team at school that, when one of the elementary teachers mentioned who cleans her room ( Read more... )

How can a person to whom I said "I don't want to talk to you anymore, and I'm going to ignore it if you talk to me" (that conversation happened 4 weeks ago), and from whom I have ignored all contact since then (not responded to in any way, but noted; here's the tally: 21 phone calls, 17 emails, 10 text messages, 1 instant message [before he got ( Read more... )

If I had a band, here are the names I would use for it, right now, inspired by the last week and a half ( Read more... )

I was going to update last night -- about the week, and senior rings, and seeing graduated students at the football game, and meeting parents, etc. But instead, here's a story of a strange event from this morning ( Read more... )

Today the principal -- mistakenly, of course -- announced that it was Monday, August 30th. I kind of understand the confusion. Only three days into this school year, and it feels like so much longer ( Read more... )

I have a little time, yet, before the business of pre-school-year starts in earnest -- the business other people are involved in, I mean, not just my planning. Had a meeting today, though, and more tomorrow and Thursday (so maybe I'm just kidding myself when I say the business hasn't started yet...). But today I started to pull things out of ( Read more... )