Ok, officially for the record, I'm not done with summer yet!

They say life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.  Well, I've been actively LIVING life this summer.  What a blast it's been.

I'm in Tennessee right now, amazed at how gorgeous it is.  I forget how this place looks in the summer time.  My parent's back deck is curtained by ( Read more... )

No School Tuesday either.

Cheer, cheer for Old Notre Dame
Wake up the echoes cheering her name
Send a volley cheer on high
Shake down the thunder from the sky!

What tho the odds be great or small
Old Notre Dame will win over all
While her loyal sons go marching
ONWARD TO VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so overklempft.  It was beautiful.  I knew they could! I knew they could!

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75,000 refugees are welcomed into Texas. Kids can be enrolled immediately in Texas public schools ( Read more... )

This blog is news from New Orleans.

I know we all feel that we wish there was something we could do; however, we have to wait.  Wait and pray; wait and pray.

Yes, I actually had to say NO to another new and exciting thing...

I "borrowed" this image from Waldo; I don't have time to create one of my own!

4 Classes and starting Wednesday I'll be teaching a block of English I so that makes that...
+2 Preps
+9 Credit Hours (I have courses overlapping; I'll drop to 6 by September 1 and hopefully 3 by ( Read more... )

Ok, the room is ready, the books are stamped, emergency cards are laid out on each desk...

We got our class rolls today around lunchtime.  *whew*  I almost ended up teaching Honors English 2 (and that would've been a kick a** class, too!)  Everything is ready to go.

It's hard to believe that it's still only the first week of ( Read more... )

Wow, it's really here!!! Tomorrow sees us teachers schlep our way back to school to find out about all the changes over the summer, and I understand that there are quite a few *wink ( Read more... )

On 8/5, from 12:30 - 4:00, we will have a table in the Cafeteria to promote the Model UN club to new students to pompano. I'd love to have current students there to help "work" the table. Please let me know if you'd be available to help out for a little while.

Thanks!