I'm free! Free! I can't say as I made much use of my first free afternoon (went to a thrift store with my mom, watched Oprah and took a nap,) but it was nice all the same. Tomorrow I have big plans to sleep in and get my hair cut. (I did say I would go today, but the stylist I like wasn't in.) That's all. Now to get into a nice routine of ( Read more... )

* Some of my students were on the front page of the newspaper this morning. They were delivering gifts for the "giving tree" (gifts for children in need ( Read more... )

There was a moment when the rock was balanced at the top of the hill, a resting place, before the weight of the world pushed it one way or the other. The balance between my expectations and everyone else's is imperfect, and I rarely find moments of solace when both are in balance. Instead I stumble, knees scraped and ankles twisted, climbing that ( Read more... )

Whew, the weekend's almost come and gone and I haven't written anything. Conferences on Friday were fine- I think that I worked myself up about it. Once I started telling myself that I can't make everyone happy and will kill myself if I keep trying to I felt better. The parents are all pretty nice. It's always hard to talk to the parents of ( Read more... )

There was a poem in my 7th grade English book. A haiku- translated, so the syllables weren't quite right. I didn't get it. Sometimes I would flip open to the page, stare at it a while, point it out to my friends. We agreed that the poem was "weird ( Read more... )

The new LJ client (for windows) is very cool. I like it so far and have not found any bugs. It downloaded super fast, too. You can find it hereToday was much better than yesterday. I didn't feel woozy or dizzy or anything, and I didn't need a nap. (Though methinks a 9:30 bedtime is calling.) The kids wrote some excellent poems. We wrote one ( Read more... )

This is a 4 day week, with conferences on Friday. I am not looking forward to conferences, but I guess that's normal. (Who actually looks forward to parent-teacher conferences?) I feel like I just had them, and I feel like I am just opening myself up to criticism from the parents. I just don't need that right now. I'm probably overly sensitive ( Read more... )

So, this makes one year since the inception of my LJ. Ironically, I was doing much the same thing one year ago as I am today- moving heavy boxes. (That day I was in the process of packing up my sweet little apartment that I dearly miss, today was spent cleaning out the storeroom.) One year ago I hadn't graduated yet, I was still student ( Read more... )

In the spirit of Christmas, or lack therof, I am posting another poll.

Poll Earplugs, please!

Come on, I know there must be one that makes you grit your teeth and lunge for the radio every time it comes on.

You can barely find my living room under the piles of presents, wrapping paper, cards, boxes... I'm having fun, though, like a cat playing in a paper bag or something. OK, maybe that wasn't a very good analogy. I love wrapping presents, though. I got lots of pretty tissue paper and ribbon, sparkly stuff with stars and snowflakes on it. I need ( Read more... )