It's the time of the year to grade finals, and as always there are some real gems:

1.  The Odissy was in antiant times when the human race was very weak and some nearly harmless weapons.  If the setting of The Odissy were to change to the year 2005 in A.T.L boy would they be in trouble.  The whole story line would change to a very strange and ( Read more... )

So, the science teacher hasn't shown up all week. He doesn't call, so the school doesn't manage to get a sub. In the mean time, we other teachers need to cover his classes, which means I haven't had a break in a week. (I don't get a lunch break, I'm covering kids then ( Read more... )

After spending the morning doing laundry, I managed to make it out the door by 12:30 in order to catch my 3:00 flight...a half hour later than what I wanted, but there really can't be too much complaints, it was my own fault for not being organized enough ( Read more... )

I've been in kind of a strange way spiritually in recent months. Over the summer I realized that I wasn't being fed at the church I was going to, which brought the added complecation of one of the ministers being a childhood mentor of mine. However, after a discussion of my mother I decided to go "church hopping," or looking for a new home ( Read more... )

Also from the 5th grade. All my cute stories come from the young kids ( Read more... )

So, I'm reading my 5th grade "The Chronocles of Narnia" in preparation for the movie next friday. They're fairly into the book, enough so if I forget to read a day they beg me to read before the end of class ( Read more... )

Okay, so they're not so new, this is their second album,
but I just became aware of them, and I must say, I really, really like them.
You all should go check them out. You should you should.

It's moments like these that remind me why I voted for this man in the first place. What the heck has taken him so long in getting to this point?!

Bush: Critics try to rewrite Iraq war history

James, a 6th grade boy, was absent on Monday. Nothing out of the ordinary, we're just long enough into school to have kids start missing because of various small illnesses ( Read more... )

I occasionally wish to express things that are a bit too sensitive and close to home for my general friends list. Lately those thoughts have been becoming more and more frequent, and I've been finding myself without a good way to let them out ( Read more... )