I suck.  I have been using my MySpace blog instead of this one.  Well, here are my two latest posts from there for those of you not on MySpace...

challenge, fear, growth, and terror

Last week and this week are in-service weeks before students come back on the 21st. We're a new school, so none of us on staff know each other, and a major focus of these ( Read more... )

For any of my readers who don't check my blog on MySpace...

Jahrzeit. That's a Yiddish word for the annual anniversary of a person's death (technically according to the date on the Hebrew calendar---we did not start renumbering years when Jesus was born). I don't know a word in common English usage for that. Death anniversary? You never hear people ( Read more... )

I have been working mostly all day and I will not sleep again until this fucker has been submitted.

I got to go back out to the Rapids new stadium today for a little tour thing. It was both less and more formal than the topping out ceremony was. Less formal in that there were only about 6 of us invited; more formal in that we all had to wear hard- ( Read more... )

If I put on my strongest glasses and squint real hard, I think I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

• Today's biggest source of soothingness (is that even a word?) was listening over & over & over to the CD for relaxation that I made myself a couple of years ago. 
  
• The best source of a smile today was watching Seven go crazy ( Read more... )

Found this at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/world_cup_2006/teams/germany/5171242.stm:

German coach Klinsmann steps down.

Jurgen Klinsmann has decided not to continue as Germany coach.

I am sure this is old news to two of the ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream that I was staying at a hotel in Vegas and that I was having an overwhelming sense of deja-vu.  Midway through the dream I realized that I had stayed in that exact hotel room two years before when I was at my women's club's international convention.  I proved this to myself by finding a pen that I had hidden behind the ( Read more... )

Snapfish, y'all...

http://www1.snapfish.com/share/p=92891152512824302/l=109377694/g=28347923/cobrandOid=1000131/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB

About 2 years ago I was taking a master's class called Cultures of the Classroom, and as an initial exercise, the professor asked each of us to draw a mandala that represented his or her culture or cultures.  Then we discussed our mandalas in small groups.  One aspect of my personal culture that I included was soccer.  The rest of my group was a ( Read more... )

Poll Jury Duty

I am wondering how many of my friends have ever been called to jury duty three times.  I served on a trial back in D.C., I was called up but stricken during a voir dire here in Adams County, and now I've been called up a second time in Adams County!  I will be doing my jury duty approximately two weeks after Matt does his.  You tell me jury ( Read more... )