Today was a much better day. I still had to cover a class (of course) but I brought them all back to my room and let them watch The Perfect Storm. We're not supposed to take classes back to our room, but my feeling on it right now is that if anyone wants to discuss it with me they're more than welcome to, they'll just have to listen to an earfull ( Read more... )

I'm so tired today....all I want to do is lay on the couch and watch old Dawson's Creek reruns or something. Instead I have to read 140 soliloquies and make up a test for Friday. Sigh. All in all though, the third semester is off to a decent start. I dropped two kids from honors, so now I have 138 students (yippee!) and overall they're being ( Read more... )

After weeks of life in the house o' stink, we finally got it all taken care of. Of course, in the meantime our propane company billed us for a service call that we made after they installed our new furnace wrong and flooded our basement. I was nice. I told them they should be happy that we were home when their mistake was "discovered" since ( Read more... )

It's really a good thing I had today to deal with stuff. I spent a few hours trying to get someone to come out to deal with the House 'O Stink, and when I finally got the right contact person I was told that there's no way they could come today because of the weather. Sigh. But they will come tomorrow. In the meantime I got in touch with the ( Read more... )

Another day, another snow fall. They cancelled school as I was putting my boots on this morning. I'm always happy about a snow day (until June that is when I'll start bitching about the fact that we're in school in July) but today I really needed one. The smell in the upstairs bathroom is getting worse (apparantly it's not just stinky, it's ( Read more... )

So last night Brian and I were playing scrabble at about 11pm when suddenly we looked at each other and said in unison "is that water?" We dropped everything and bolted downstairs. Sure enough, water was gushing out of the boiler. Again. The new boiler. We shut the water off and called our propane company (they should be on speed dial by now ( Read more... )

I know sooner or later everyone will get sick of my glee over all this snow (that is, if you're not already) but I have to say - I'm loving this. I have tomorrow off, and because I was convinced I'd have school I did everything I needed to do today. My grades are all in, I did my lesson planning for next week (most of it anyway) and I even made a ( Read more... )

We have hot water! The boiler people just left, so we have hot water and real heat again. We also have a warranty, so at least we won't have to pay for a new boiler any time soon (cross your fingers that nothing else goes wrong for a while ( Read more... )

In the scope of what's been going on this past week it's not all that major, but it's still pretty crappy ( Read more... )

See, now that I don't live in Mass anymore you guys can indulge my snow day obsession (right?). I know it's wrong, esp. since I got a snow day last week, but seriously, I really, really need another day to get caught up. Okay, I need a month, but I'll settle for just one more lousy day. But Murphy's Law being what it is the only way it will ( Read more... )