This week at school, my students drove me crazy. They think its winter break already - sleeping in class, not turning in homework, and general constant complaining about having to be at school. I have a movie day planned for next week, but I have had to threaten to take it away if the little cherubs don't behave. So far, it's looking as if two ( Read more... )

One of my sophomore students, Josh Radosevich, died this week. He was training to be a jockey and was thrown from his horse when it broke its leg in a race. He got trampled on by the horses behind him and died on the way to the hospital.... It happened on Wednesday, and I think I'm still a little in shock. That seems to be the way death goes with ( Read more... )

How do you get your kids to see the bigger picture? This is the last week of our second grading period at school, and I have many students who are not going to get a passing grade on their report card, some for the second time in my class. This is mostly caused by A) not turning in assignments B) turning in incomplete assignments or C) trying to ( Read more... )

Hi. While doing some routine internet stuff, I realized that I haven't really been online very much in the last few months -- and I wanted to do a little (or big)update so you would know what's going on in my life ( Read more... )

Not much has been happening on the job front. I had another interview at New Albany High School, but I don't think we were a good match, and it didn't go well at all. And despite all of my calling, I haven't heard anything at all from any school in two weeks...Boo. My tactic this week is to email my resume to all the principals of the individual ( Read more... )

I had a job interview two weeks ago for a school in the Columbus Public district, and today I heard back from the principal. They gave both English positions to other people. I was more upset that I expected to be - especially because I thought the interview went really well. I felt relaxed and articulate, and the principal was really complimentary ( Read more... )

It is 1:30 in the morning, and I am sitting here in my bed with the iBook, Chris sleeping beside me. Today was so hot, and our apartment is only pseudo air-conditioned (a window unit in the living room, which doesn't cool down the bedroom, even if we weren't trying to conserve energy money by not running it). So even though we have a giant fan, it ( Read more... )

Well, I'm now a married woman! The wedding was last Saturday, and everything went really well. We tried to keep it really relaxed - took pictures before the ceremony, kept announcing to a minimum, and played our own music on CDs. I felt really calm, and the ceremony was nice, especially while Joanna was singing, and I got to have a few minutes with ( Read more... )

I'm feeling really guilty tonight for fighting with my Mom about the wedding -- I think wedding disagreements are inevitable with most moms and daughters, but especially with us because we were always interested in different things. We had different tastes, and everyone has their own ideas about what a wedding should be like -- my parents, Chris, ( Read more... )

My Mom died two weeks ago. She had liver failure due to Hepatitis C, which she got from infected blood in 1983, before blood was tested. Even though she had been HIV positive for a long time and co-infection is really common, no one thought to test her for Hepatitis or watch out for her liver. So it was basically messing up her liver unchecked for ( Read more... )