I'm laughing a lot as I read A Casual Vacancy. This is not a kid's book! Quite a bit of realistic swearing and references to sex.  Loved the chapter where Andrew Price and his father are hating each other with a passion.

I need more income. The college pay is just too low to live on ( Read more... )

I needed the professor in my pocket today because I had a French test for the Ottawa Carleton School Board's substitute list and I wrote "le grammaire" instead of "la grammaire." More than once ( Read more... )

Going to see an apartment tomorrow. Excited, but want to see what it's like and if I'd be chosen. It is super near where we live and the boys could live mostly in the house if they wanted.

My contract teaching has begun and it's been going well, but yesterday and today I came home completely exhausted.

One more new class to go, Friday.

I've decided on a topic for my ten minute lesson on the comparative and superlative. I'm going to do a lesson about trucks, the kind my students at Russell looked at on kijiji in their every spare moment ( Read more... )

The professor is the only friend I have who writes "I shall," as in, "I shall be glowing in the dark next ( Read more... )

Did I mention that while my sugar is high, I don't yet have Type 2 diabetes? Today I learned my thyroid is also ok.  This means that I have lots of incentives to lose weight the old fashioned way of eating less and exercising more ( Read more... )

Having a very nice time in Vancouver with my two sisters and with old friends I miss so much. I was supposed to move to Ottawa for a year and it turned into permanently ( Read more... )

I'm not letting my kids take video games or DS's to Savary, so I'm going to go offline too, except for checking email occasionally.

Best wishes to you all for the next 3 weeks.