yeah, so that last entry was really emo. and I've been in a kind of emo mood for awhile now. but I'm doing OK. Life is good, I'm doing well, I'm learning a lot....and I actually have quite a bit of chatty stuff to update, even though I am strapped for the time to do it. :-P so hang in there, faithful audience (stalkers) and I will be in touch again ( Read more... )

I feel like I'm screaming inside right now.

I want a vacation from myself.

I made history today: I annoyed Alejandro to the point where he ran away from me!! Alejandro is one of my 8th grade boarder students, and one of his pastimes is to come into my room and be as annoying as possible regardless of how I respond to it. I think he really is craving attention or something. So anyway, I was grading exams during 6th grade ( Read more... )

It's been a different last couple days. Took the MTTCs this past weekend, which turned out to not be bad at all, but kind of a waste of a day, Rachel came home to visit, which was a blast (even though the poor dear was sick and we had to nurse her back to health) and a couple days before that, Sarah's choir from Xavier was on tour and they came ( Read more... )

ok, so that wasn't so bad. I finished early even and got some grading done in between tests. Now it's time for a nap....

So it's 6:45 on a Saturday morning and I'm up to take the MTTC (Michigan Test for Teacher Certification) in Spanish and "Basic Skills." This is such horseshit....I passed the PRAXIS; why can't one state's test be good enough for another one?? :-P Ah well...I'll prob do OK (even though I haven't done a thing to prepare besides find out how to get to ( Read more... )

Wow, I've been updating a lot lately. Can you tell it's vacation? :-P It wouldn't be the end of the year, though, without a customary look back at what happened the previous year, so here goes ( Read more... )

In 2007, ( Read more... )

playing scrabble....I'm losing to Mary, but it's only the third round. :-P ( Read more... )

Yes, it still is Christmas, since we get until the Epiphany to celebrate. I think I should be giving y'all four calling birds today or something like that.....which reminds me of a funny school story. I taught my kids how to sing the "12 Days of Christmas" in Spanish, which, of course, they got a kick out of, but had an interesting time getting all ( Read more... )