Shoop shoop shoooby Doop

It's finally over, the whole first year of teaching chaos. Yay for me and everyone else involved in that silly endeavor. And hooray for the other people about to embark on it. Just 2 more years and I can go back to school too...whew! what a relief!

In T minus a day and a half (T minus means minutes left or something so I hear) I head out to the western parts of the country for a little R&R and P&D&E and F&F. See if you can figure those out.

And an update on other things...mark your calendars the wedding date is set for July 8th, originally June 24th, and let's hope the place hasn't booked the 8th yet. That's a whole year away which is a really long time in my opinion to get ready for a day, one day, a single day. We've discussed eloping, letting Elvis marry us in Vegas, and all those things that seem somewhat more exhilarating than all the months of planning. Hmmm...one does like to dream! I don't think it'll ever happen, thus I'll just make the most of the traditional route and have as many laughs along the way as I can muster. It, too, shall be fun.

Impressive

I'm very impressed by all the recent updating by the bloggers. If I was YOUR teacher, I'd say fantastic! excellent! spectacular! all ending in an exclamation point because of just how wonderful you are, much like 8th graders who do something great and then lean in ever so slightly hoping to get one of those exclamations from someone. You're cooler than 8th graders though because most of your hormones have settled.

Ever noticed how difficult some words are to text on the cell phone? I have decided that the word "tomorrow" is most time consuming. You know if you need a letter on the same key, you must wait that obligatory 3 blinks of the cursor before being allowed to type the next letter? Well in "tomorrow" there's the 'o' and then wait for the 'm' and then wait for the 'o' then do a quick 'r' and wait for another 'r' and then the 'o' and 'w' are quick no problem type jobs. But wow that's a long one to type. I often want to write 'tom' rather than 'tomorrow,' but often think my reader might think i'll see my friend Tom later. I don't even have a friend Tom; I used to though. I don't know where he is anymore. Hmph.

An update on my teaching career. I have T-5 days and counting. What does T minus ____ mean anyway? What's the T for? So just 2 full days and then 2 half days and then 1 work day and then I dance myself right out of that building in a little celebration jig. And that means, just T minus 7 days before I head out on the Plane Trip/Road Trip of the season. And there are a few reasons that this will be so.
1. 2 plane trips = lots of by myself with a bunch of strangers time
2. reuniting with 2 old friends, one for 2 weeks, one for 4 hours in the airport?
3. Monterey
4. San Francisco http://www.ramadaplazasf.com/main/rpsf-home.htm
5. Food & Beer

Yes, 5 is good.

So this might be the wedding site www.woodfieldinn.com
What does everyone think???

More on Dump Trucks

This morning on my way to school, I watched a dump truck run a red light. I screamed out loud at the truck as I sat in my little car. I do think that the Cayce/West Columbia, Lexington area has more dump trucks than anywhere else that I've lived, but they obviously don't follow any common sense kind of rules. A dump truck is slow; therefore, if the light turns yellow, they shouldn't just try to rush through it. Undoubtably they could have missed, overshot or undershot whatever, but not get through in a timely manner. I hate dump trucks. They look like big blown up toys and for some reason their drivers just get a bad rap in my mind. It's not fair to them I know.

School is almost over. I have 2 weeks of my first year left. Hooray. I'm ready for this one to be over. After looking at the same faces day in and day out, I want a break. I leave for Arizona/California in exactly 2 weeks. I'm counting down the days. Home's fun and all, but heading out that far will be a sweet way to start my summer officially without school. OK I should do something productive, though posting after however many weeks could be considered productive, right?

Shock and Awe

I just put myself into my classroom isolation tank.

I had a number of conferences for students who are heading up to the high school next year. We have a kid who's so clearly homosexual. Big deal around here. People are so close minded and in education, being that way is so incredibly backward. Isn't education all about growth and development? OK well we're a developing society and a developing world, but these idiots are still living back in 1950 and they actually SAY it out loud. Things like, "it's just disgusting" and "it shouldn't happen" about students, one in particular, who I happen to teach and think very highly of. He's great, he makes bigger connections to literature than half the kids and probably these talking head idiots who are in charge of his life next year. He's polite and well mannered and has a great group of friends who are accepting of him, so why the hostility toward a 13 year old over the fact that he doesn't like girls. I almost slung a clipboard down the conference table, so I left and now I'm in isolation in my room with Tift playing. GEEEEEz louise.

Why can't we just accept everyone?

Celebration

I guess I'll announce it to the blogging world, though most of you might already know this news. On Saturday, Will and I got engaged. Yippee! It's a happy time. There's not a lot to say other than that. It was a really fun time though. I giggled a lot and that's always fun. :)

Sso there's a very happy girl out there in the big world!