it's been awhile

since its been a week?? since I last posted and I'm finally keeping my eyes open...too bad this couldn't happen when I was trying to get work done I thought that I would post. though nothing exciting has happened so its going ot be one of those life posts.

life is boring. though it is nice to walk through puddles instead of snow piles when going to and from my car and I definitely am not going to complain about 60 degree weather in February...though I am hoping for that rain that is predicted. my car is in desperate need of a good old nature's car wash.

school is school. my seniors and I are having a matching of wits...they think its ok to talk all through class and not come prepared. I actually expect them to be respectful of me and their fellow students and actually do the little work that I assign. but we're woking on coming to terms we can both agree on. aka I just want to survive the year.

though whether or not I have a job next year is up in the air. all depends on how many girls we have register. fortunatly my paperwork for my IL teaching certificate is finally all gathered and ready to submit....now to just call and find out if I can drop it in the mail or if I need to go the 2 hours out of my way to swing by the office. my saving hope for my job...there are 2 brand new sciene teachers...and one of them is a bio teacher...and we will have literally 1 bio class next year, I however teach chem and physics and we will have TONS of those classes to teach.

the yam yops are doing phenomenial on their world tour. we now have over a million fans. well over a milion fans thanks to our determination to play above our comfortable skill level on friday night.

my family has finally embraced the technology of texting. though emily is the only one who texts me so I can clearly see how I have done without it all these years. I did have to teach my phone some key phrases. piccolo, nickface and claires. since these are the individuals around whom my social life revolves and none of them have normal names.

since what is a blog post without pictures but who wants to take pictures of a boring life. I leave you with this one from chirstmas. I call it "when santas collide"

cutest lab ever.

who wouldnt want to do this physics lab.

hello technology, nice to meet you

computer made it safely back to my arms this morning, AND it has gotten over its fear of other computers...so i can sit at my desk and print away! --- as long as I only want to print one page at a time, since my printer still tries to print everything on one page aka print 2 pages, one comes out, with two pages worth of text on top of each other.

AND I came back to my room after a faculty meeting this afternoon to find a text from my little sister "can you text too?" we finally have entered this phase of our mobile phone lives thanks to emily's christmas request. so yes. I can text too.

we went old school today

my school computer is at the computer doctor. this is throwing my whole school day off. I use my computer CONSTANTLY...taking attendance, doing notes, and since my room severely lacks a working chalkboard and i can't afford my dream board, for solving practice problems thanks to the computer's tablet function.

my computer has needed to go to the computer doctor since september. it doesnt play well with others and thus wont let me print, log onto the shared network drives, or back up my stuff in the network. I finally decided i'd had enough and told the tech assistant last tuesday I was bringing it today. she told the head techie, who questioned the sainity of someone who plans to bring her computer in a week in advance.

so in my computerless state we all learned how to use chalkboards and chalk today. I had to teach school old school style. now my hands are all dry because of it. stupid chalk.

touch children's lives, not actual children

my saturday morning started way to early by my alarm going off at 7...(because I was stupid and didnt need to set it until 7:30) and then I had to drag myself out of bed to go to a workshop about preventing child sexual abuse for work. this is all fine and good, except that the whole work shop was geared towards parents and what parents can do to protect their children.

and this is a workshop that all teachers, volunteers, employees, cleregy, or any individuals in any other capacity that are in a position associated with the catholic church have to attend. this is a nobel effort and I think an important topic, I just think the angle could have been more useful.

like when I worked at girl scout camp and we went through training about signs to look for in case our campers were coming to us from unsafe home situations, what to do if we suspected something, what to do if our campers confided in us. this would be much more useful then how to monitor who my children (wait I dont have children) are hanging out with.

I was pretending i was abraham lincoln

its funny what randomly pops into your brain. like tonight. when I remembered this little tale.

first let me set the stage: winter 2002, our power is flickering in and out thanks to good old kc ice storms, the family is all sitting around the family room in the dark, and I'm attempting to melt white chocolate over a candle flame so I can finish my bribery gift for my french teacher, and my dad begins:

"this is like when I was little and I used to do my homework on the back of a shovel with a piece of charcoal by candle light."

"what??????"

"yeah after dark, since we didnt have electricity, we had to use candles."

"you were born in 1948, you lived in st louis, there always was electricity"

"oh yeah I was pretending I was abraham lincoln"

wanted: working morning brain

yesterday morning wake up, go to car, covered with snow, open door, drop in bag, realize I'm purseless, brush snow off half of car, return inside to get purse, drive to school.

arrive at school, drop keys in purse on passenger seat, open door, push lock, close door, walk around to passenger door to get stuff and click. doors lock. purse, with keys, and phone (as well as backpack, lunch, school plans, non-slop shoes) sitting in the seat, looking back at me through the window.

finally organized to have my mom bring the extra key my dad had on his key chain and my mentor teacher drove me to meet my mom and my keys. In the process of organizing this, I called a stranger twice (this is what happens when I dont have my phone with people's phone numbers) tried to call nick, but of course is phone just rang and rang since he turns off his alarm by turning down his phone ringer.

this morning, get to car, driving to school, make a wrong turn to the middle of nowhere.

where is the working brain.