A four-day weekend faces me. My first career win as a volleyball coach happened today. I just took a bubble bath and drank a deliciously cold Sierra Nevada. I have almost figured out how to use twitter and am anxiously... Continue Reading →
I am sitting on the couch, eating and drinking my feelings. They are good feelings, but rather hard to verbalize, and so I am using conversation hearts to help me. Lol, love u, and good 4 U. That about sums... Continue Reading →
Aside from a coworker cornering me in the copy room and asking, "so, being single, how are you handling Valentine's Day?" I had a most rocking day. As a junior high teacher, watching young romances think they are blooming is... Continue Reading →
Watched the Superbowl yesterday....sorta. Football doesn't hold my interest very much these days. And what misguided marketing major thought that a bunch of people who are rooting for the Packers and the Steelers want to see the Black Eyed Peas... Continue Reading →
Five days of Spirit Week, 120 screaming junior higher, 30 girls at vball tryouts, 11 making the team, a dozen rounds of Theraflu, and seventy billion cups of tea and cough drops later, my battle with influenza or malaria or... Continue Reading →
I am terrible at being sick. You know how they say nurses and doctors make the worst patients? Actually, their children do. I freely admit I am a large infant when I get sick. I'm emotional, I say weird things... Continue Reading →
I LOVE coaching! I had my first practice today...and my girls ROCK!!! They aren't the tallest, but seriously athletic, fast, and I love that they have such a positive attitude about everything. I'm really competitive (surprise) and I know they... Continue Reading →
One of my sweetest sixth graders was so nervous about the tryouts, that she packed her own healthy lunch, with some whole wheat pasta in a thermos, so she would have the carbo-loading necessary to prepare herself properly for tryouts.... Continue Reading →
This week I'm in the middle of progress reports, and giving some major Latin tests, which is nice, because all the students are quiet when they take tests. But I have to come up with 146 different catch phrases to... Continue Reading →
I believe goals are importnant. Setting them. Striving for them. Trying to keep them. I rarely get to the last step, which would be "celebrating the achievement of goal." but today, we set out to break a previous personal record... Continue Reading →
Junior highers are so presh sometimes. Remember being at that age? Their hormones are the driving forces behind everything. They look like little adults, they think they are little adults, but they still have a loooong ways to go. One... Continue Reading →
Harry: Right, the Christmas party. Not my favorite night of the year, and your unhappy job to organize. Mia: Tell me. Harry: Well, it's basic, really. Find a venue, over-order on the drinks, bulk-buy the guacamole and advise the girls... Continue Reading →