Mamma...

..don't wanna go to school today. I think I'm gonna go outside and play.

You thought you liked snow days as a kid. Ten times as fun as an adult.

My crazy leg, over saturation, and invading the Holiest of Holies.

I appologize for the rant, but I need to get stuff off my chest.

Since after Christmas my right leg has swollen and gotten red. Kathy took me to the ER and after waiting 5 hours to get an ultrasound on my leg, they sent me home and told me to return the following day. It was diagnosed as a simple infection and I am treating it with antibiotics. No worries. I guess ultrasound operators have more of a life than I do.

I understand some of you voted for the guy, but I am so tired of hearing about our next president. The media is doing a fine job of shoving him down my throat. I fear they are setting him up for failure. People have such high expectations for him and his tenure as the president(king, god, take your pick, he's being treated like all of these), I don't know if anyone could live up to what they are wanting. I have an honest fear that he will not survive four years as president. Some idiot will haul off and shoot the guy. Just what we need, this guy becoming a "martyr for the cause".

And if it is not enough that he is on every tv channel, website, magazine, and newspaper, he is invading the Holiest of Holies. Yes, that is correct. Marvel comics is including Barrack Obama in the next Spider-man comic book. Is nothing sacred?

Dreams Update

So I didn't dream that I won 10 billion dollars..... *pout*

But I did dream that Ewan McGregor was the manager of the dollar store by my house *runs to the dollar store just in case*

Hey, everyone needs an autograph of Obi Wan Kenobi!

I've stepped into Bizarro World

You know how you wake up in the middle of the night and then go back to sleep...well for me my dreams get REALLY weird after that happens. Last night I woke up (well Shadow woke me up...well, John yelling at Shadow woke me up) and I fell back asleep and I dreamed that the boiler in the basement of the school (next to my classroom) exploded and flooded the basement with water. Not a majorly weird dream...not like my crazy chicken dream. Anyway, I get to school, open the basement door and see water all over the floor--probably 1/2 an inch deep or more. So, here's the bizarro-ness that just fits perfectly into my wack-o week. The boiler actually did explode and flooded the basement. How weird is that?

Tonight I plan on dreaming that I win 10 billion dollars...we'll see how that works out. :-)

Knowing

So, if you knew that something was going to happen---for sure, no if, and's, or but's about it, you knew that something was going to happen and all you had to do were four simple things that you do (or should be doing) already....wouldn't you want to make sure that you were ready?

Here's my frustration....I teach in a school that was visited by the Superintendent (and his croonies) in September and on a scale of 0-4, rated our school a 1.9. Why such a low score? 4 reasons: 1. Lesson plans were not done using the district template. 2. No one had Data Binders (or they weren't in a visible location). 3. Objectives and essential questions were not written on the board. 4. Bulletin Boards did not have current student work on them.

So at the moment, all of you are thinking--well duh just do those four things! Exactly. EXACTLY! 4 little things that would ensure that we received a 3 point something. My principal has given extensive training on the first three (last one is really a no brainer) and has checked over and over again to make sure we are doing them. Today we get a notice from her stating that people are still NOT writing their objectives and essential questions on the board. YOU'RE KIDDING ME!!! We all know that the Super' is coming back sometime this month---we know it...in fact the principal said that he's coming THIS WEEK!! THIS WEEK and people still aren't doing their job???????? Come on...where is your school pride? Do you want us to get another failing report? Do you want people to think that our school stinks? I'm so mad. I actually went off at the faculty meeting about it (little embarrassed about that) but I'm so incredibly dumb founded that we know what we have to do to get a good report and we're not doing it. That's pathetic. I could never be an administrator, it would kill me to see people not doing what I've told them to do over and over and over and over again.