Updates, Recent Reads, and Happy List

Thursday, January 26, 2012

 I'm tired, and my thoughts are scattered; therefore, you get a bulleted list.

• Tendinitis sucks, obviously.

• I am, once again, falling behind on commenting on blogs.  It isn't that I am not interest or don't care. I am and I do.  I just feel so tired in the evenings that putting words together is hard.  My mom and Lucy called last night, and I struggled to simply participate in the conversations.

• I am not a fan of January.

• I was running late this morning and obviously not really awake.  That's my excuse for making it through my first class before realizing my shirt was inside out. It's okay if you laughed at that.  I laughed too.

• I made Shallow Coach so angry that he stormed away from the lunch table.  He is teaching a student whom I had last term, and he said she should go out with a boy in the class.  I said, "Nah, she's dating Toni."  Well, SC responded with "Oh, I don't know him."  Before I thought, I said, "Her."  His response was "She's a lesbian? That's a pity."  That was the absolute last straw for me. I let him know that I was tired of his bigoted comments and that I didn't want to hear them any more.  I also told him that he needed to start thinking before opening his mouth.  That ticked him off and he left.  Am I upset that he left? Heck no.  I hope he doesn't come back.

• My second class now understands that Mexico is not a state.  I may not be able to teach them to read above a third grade level or to capitalize their names, but they will know that. *sigh*

Recent Reads:

Legal Artistry by Andrew Grey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Good story with sweet characters. I really enjoyed Dieter.






 Artistic Appeal by Andrew Grey
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another good story.

View all my reviews





 Happy List:

1. Tomorrow is Friday.
2. My heating pad
3. My students had the second highest test scores in the district last term.
4. Friends
5. Family
6. Watching The Big Bang Theory
7. Free books