This has probably been one of the greatest weekends in a long time. I went home to Oswego Thursday night because our friend Yolanda, from Tucson, AZ, came to NY for a visit. Lucky for her she arrived on a day with snow and hail then 2 days later its in the 60's. Welcome to NY. She was so cold! I played with my niece every day and she's just ( Read more... )

All I can say is thank God we have a staff development day and then a day off. I think I just might shoot my students. I've tried so many tactics and they're working on the younger grades for the most part, however, I don't think there's much of anything I can do with my 6th graders. For the first time in my life I did something that I said I ( Read more... )

So I'm coming to visit my friends in the lovely town of Potsdam on Friday with a possible overnight through to Saturday. Anyone wanna see me? Anyone wanna hook me up with a couch or something for the possible overnight? *wink wink nudge nudge* Actually if there really isn't a place for me to crash I think I can handle driving home that night its ( Read more... )

So I just watched this special on TLC called "The Half Ton Man". They had several people on it that were majorly overwieght but one man was over 1000 pounds. It was scary and sad to watch. The great thing was they showed his progress and with surgery and hospital stays he is now under 500 in less than a years time. Can you imagine?! It makes ( Read more... )

Well, I'm still here and I'm still alive, but I'm exhausted. I'm having such a difficult time with my 6th grade classes. Yesterday I had 10 kids quit chorus (some were 5th graders too) but for the first time we got through several things. A lot of the problem here is discipline, these kids don't have it. Their classroom teachers say they ( Read more... )

This is what I get for falling asleep a little before 9pm and waking up at 1. Now I can't sleep and no one is online at 3:15 in the morning so blah. IF I wasn't so lazy I think I might actually unpack another box since I've been here over 2 weeks and there are still boxes all over the place. Good I know. I just get so preoccupied with school ( Read more... )

So if 70 makes a movie whore and I've seen twice as many movies, what kind of whore does that make me?

Put an X by the movies you've seen.
If you get more than 70, you're a movie whore.
COPY and REPOST ! PLACE YOUR SCORE IN THE SUBJECT LINE

( Movie Survey )

I felt like I was playing the game of LIFE today. I got my first paycheck today for 2 weeks worth of teaching. Now I get it direct deposited but we all still get our envelopes with all the info in them. Well when I got mine and I saw that it was more than I thought it would be I flipped. Let's just say I can pay for rent and my utilities all in ( Read more... )

I had my first day with students today. Luckily I start the 6 day cycle at my K-2 school and today I only had first and second graders. Kindergarten was let out at 9/9:30. Tomorrow I'll see everyone though. I can't wait. It's gonna be a blast ( Read more... )