I’m sitting at the table watching #3 son prepare to carve a pumpkin that is bigger than 1/2 his body. All day, I have been feeling under-the-weather, harboring a headache that has lightly thumped my skull for the past few days.
It all began earlier in the week…
In the morning on Tuesday, I drove to work in [...]
Archive for October, 2008
30 Oct
Carving a hole in my heart…
28 Oct
Is it possible….?
This past weekend, bearing in mind that my “current” car was acting strangely and, according to the mechanic, would cost me another “almost $1000″ to fix, we went car shopping…
IN the pouring rain.
Rain coming down in buckets, barrels, and bins. Sideways and upways and downways and backways. It didn’t take long for me to become [...]
23 Oct
WHA BOO BANG OOPS
It’s been nearly an entire week of sound affects in my life…
“GAAAAH” when I found out that my car will again cost me $700 to fix something they just “discovered” was the root of the stalling and hestitating.
“YEAAAH!” Was the sound when we decided to trade IN my car for something “new-to-me.”
“BAAAAH!” is the sound [...]
21 Oct
Marbles and jellybeans
Sanity is not in my repertoire this semester…
Fifteen kids emailed me to get their midterm exam grades. It’s ok. I don’t mind. It’ll be less of a line standing outside of my office. And, to be honest, less shit that I have to listen to… whining about how distracted they are… how hard my test [...]
19 Oct
It’s all relative
Again, I am revisiting the fact that I’m a bad, shamefully neglectful girl… that I don’t even shoot out a “HOORAH” at some slow time during the week.
It’s probably because, as of right this second, there IS no difference between teaching high school and teaching college.
Except… I don’t deal with parents… However, the kids are [...]
10 Oct
Helluva Friday…
Today, my students at the one college took their midterms.
*heavy sigh*
First of all, I have a student who whines (yes, whines) nonstop about how HE needs extra time, and his teachers in high school gave him extra time… yadda freaking yadda.
The college gave him extra time. I gave him extra time, if he needed it.
Test [...]
9 Oct
Let’s hear it again…
Just when I thought things were evening out… aside from this perpetual cold that I’ve been harboring for months… my car died, again.
I took my little one to the store to return shoes that I just bought, which were falling apart… hopped into my truck and turned the key… and nothing.
I just got my car [...]
1 Oct
Jumping Jacks for Joy
I have “rectified” the mistake I made by not putting the test grades in my book by doing this…
I put out a mass email to my class. I spent a few hours yesterday writing a 10-question replacement test designed to be a takehome.
Today, I gave them two options and I had them vote… most have given [...]
