Another day entrenched in Macbeth. If my students liked Macbeth even a quarter of as much as I do we'd all be having fun right now. As it is I'm having a ball with the stuff and about a handful of the kids are on board too, the rest...well, let's just say it's not their thing. Today's big internal debate: Tell them what the drunken porter is ( Read more... )

I'm back after a few weeks without internet access. We're moved into the new place and loving it. There are still boxes everywhere, but we're starting to figure out where things will go and the place is beginning to look like a real home. I met the neighbors across the street briefly when we first moved, they're our age and they seem very nice ( Read more... )

Okay, joke's on me. I kept praying for a bizzard, and low and behold we got something like one. Nothing like getting a snow day when you're already on vacation. The really crappy part is that we're supposed to move on Tuesday and it looks like we may have to shovel out a foot of snow from two houses to do it. Ugh! I LOVE snow and this is just ( Read more... )

After months, and months, we finally closed! I'm excited, nervous, overwhelmed (by all the packing) and exhausted (haven't had much sleep the past few nights, just too many things to take care of for the holidays). BUT, we have a house ( Read more... )

I know, I'm probably in the minority here, but I really need it to dump snow tonight. I don't think it will, last I saw on the news we're not looking at much but honestly, that would be my Christmas miracle. I just finished my 30 page Shakespeare paper (where I argued that Rosalind, Celia, Hermia and Helena are not lesbians....not sure how I ( Read more... )

1. Calling in sick yesterday so I could get a little bit of work done ( Read more... )

Yesterday I woke up feeling terrible, but I just couldn't justify calling in sick. There was a time when if I had even the smallest cold I'd call in and rest, but teaching is different somehow. The kids always take a day to get back into the program after I'm out, and I feel insane guilt about leaving them (which is crazy, I know). So, I went to ( Read more... )

Man, this year has been exhausting. This teaching job is kicking my ass. I still love it but the workload is just insane. I talk to people who teach honors classes with ten students in them and I just want to cry. Today I was trying to get a group discussion going on the Wife Of Bath's Tale, it's a great story and the kids actually liked it, ( Read more... )

Things are still insane with the home purchase that just won't end. We're still under agreement but the sellers are going through all kinds of court related madness dealing with their bankruptcy. First they wanted to do Chapter 13 so they could sell the house, pay off debts and move on. But because they haven't owned their house for very long ( Read more... )

I don't know what it is about having a short week last week, but this week feels like it's a month long. The kids have been pretty bad, complete with eye rolling, loud sighing and all those delightful carry overs from Middle School that they still haven't left behind in 12th Grade. I don't mind it so much when they're just talkative (which they ( Read more... )