I'm driving down the road, and from the back seat Ian asks, "Mom, does H-W-Y spell 'howie'?"

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Must. Grade. Papers.
Compute. Midterm. Averages.

ARGH. I like the teaching part. I don't like the paperwork part.

I got nifty with Power Point and made up some presentations for my lessons. Saves time writing definitions on the board over and over.
"Mrs. D, did you do those all by yourself?" Yeah. "They're cool. Can we do one?"

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Grandma is back at her house in Raceland, LA. Mom and Dad spent the weekend helping clean up her yard.
The only thing left of my aunt's beach house in Bay St. Louis are the steel pilings for the foundation. Her house in Ellisville is ok.
Mom says that traffic in Baton Rouge is hellacious.

I have relatives in Louisiana, but my situation is not nearly as nerve-wracking as Leigh's ( Read more... )

I'm finished with final exams for the summer. Statistics class has been soundly aced. Calculus IV is so much easier the second time around ( Read more... )

I'm Snow White, dammit! Opening weekend went well; I finally got my lines down the night before, after completely forgetting everything during dress rehearsal ( Read more... )

I tried to call the bursar's office at the university to ask why I didn't get my money back for the class that was cancelled. I called the number posted on the website, immediately got transfered by the phone system to the main menu hell. Pushed "0" to reach an operator, got no answer. Lather, rinse, repeat. You'd think that a big school would ( Read more... )

The lead in the play I just finished doing, Once Upon a Mattress, asked me, at the cast party on Sunday, if I would be in the play she's directing at her children's theater. I will be Snow White, Ian ("Hi, my name is Ian and it's spelled I-A-N and I'm 4 years old") will be Dwarf Three. We have a total of two weeks of rehearsal before the play ( Read more... )

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