the balance in the world has been set to rights again. UNC beat dook last night. at home. on their senior night. woo! :)

btw. "spring ahead" can bite my ass this early in the year. getting up tomorrow at what should be 5am is going to mean getting up when it's still pitch-dark outside. ugh.

well, had both a relaxing and relatively productive weekend.

friday joe and i went out to macaroni grill to celebrate my birthday (which was thursday, but we had to go to club thurs to teach and all). mmm...tasty goodness. then we stopped and perused at barnes and noble for a while, and i picked up the memory keeper's daughter which i'll read ( Read more... )

so, a few days ago i bought the first of the Spiderwick Chronicles thinking i'd go through them one at a time and get through them before the movie came out. well, after reading the first one this morning in less than an hour (mostly at work...didn't have much to do today), i stopped by after work to pick up the others. and then proceeded to read ( Read more... )

well, except one kid that didn't make it for his make-up exam today so will come tomorrow. provided we even have school tomorrow...whatever. i don't really have to deal with kids tomorrow, so i'm ok with not getting anything off from work. i wouldn't mind the snow though, since it would make it pretty. if it does snow, however, i don't want to ( Read more... )

joe and i drove back from jersey today. we'll head down to his parents tomorrow and will stay until sunday ( Read more... )

haven't been posting much, largely because what i would mostly write about is work, and whining about students ( Read more... )

so...here goes my almost complete book list for the year...just have to finish one more before the year is up ( Read more... )

so, i'm grading a grammar worksheet. they're supposed to fill in appropriate pronouns, making sure they agree w/the verb. here's the question:

Tom shouldn't talk about ________ all the time. (reflexive)

the answer i got?

Tom shouldn't talk about sex all the time ( Read more... )

i am at open eye. i should be grading the pile of classwork + the embarrassingly small stack of essays from my seniors. i have a whopping 22/52 essays turned in. they were due on monday last week. pathetic ( Read more... )

item #1: finished reading book #37 of 2007, the outlaws of sherwood by robin mckinley. yes, it's a robin hood story. it was pretty good. easy read.

i'm now reading the forest lover by susan vreeland. it's a book that several customers at b&n had bought and mentioned that it was good, and we happen to have a class set of them in my classroom ( ( Read more... )