My Journal

Question:  How long will it take the celery in my refrigerator to wilt away to nothing?  Fireheart wants to know...

( Fireheart checks progress of experiment... )

My friend loaned me a book called Haiku U.:  From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables by David M. Bader.  I perused it right after school.  Some of these made me giggle, so I thought I might share some with you. 



And, in the world of music, I found a German baroque hymn composer named Severus Gastorius.  I didn't realize that Severus was a real name.  I thought JKR had made it up.

Today was our 100th day of school for the year.  Kindergarteners get really excited about it.  We did a number of fun activities which they really liked.

The whole thing almost fell apart though because of an unexpected snowstorm.  We were expected to get 2 - 4 inches last night, which would have made traffic bad, but manageable.  I planned to leave in time to get there early so I could get special activities set up.  I had been home sick again yesterday, so I couldn't set them up yesterday.  Instead, when I walked outside this morning, I realized we had more like 6 - 8 inches of snow.  And it was still snowing about an inch per hour!  The roads were terrible, and it took me 1 1/2 hours to get to school (about 3 times the amount of time it usually takes).  In fact, I was actually 5 minutes late to school!  Aaach!

Fortunately, my principal watched the kids till I got there, and the students pitched in and helped get things ready so we could have our special day.  *happy sigh*

Well, I'm home sick today, and my 4-year-old probably has pink eye (which means that Mr. McG and I will probably get it as well).  But it does leave time for me to congratulate those people who got nominated for  sshg_awards  Round 3.  Congrats to all, but especially those on my f-list!     

I'm so excited that my Chicago Cubs have clinched their division! (They're a baseball team, for my non-American friends.) I've been a Cubs fan since I was 8. I certainly hope their long drought at getting to (and hopefully winning) the World Series is finally over.

I can't get our new modem to work at home, so I'm stuck with not much time on the Internet at school. *sigh* Hopefully this week, I can get back to keeping in touch with all of you. I hope you all are taking care of yourselves.

Chapter 2 of The Walking Club is posted at TPP and Ashwinder and has been getting some very nice reviews.  Thanks to anybody from the flist who has reviewed so far.  Here are the links:

TPP:  http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/viewstory.php?sid=9408

Ashwinder:  http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=18676

In house remodeling details, we've got some of our kitchen cabinets installed.  Hooray!  It's starting to look like a kitchen!

And I managed to do some yearly unit planning for my kindergarten class today.  So I'm feeling a bit less stressed about that too.  (On the other hand, we have a prospective student open house in one week, and my room is no where near ready to be seen by the public...)

I got back from my family reunion, but my husband's grandfather passed away, so we'll be off to Michigan for the funeral in a couple of days.  I'm not sure if I'll have much time for catching up / keeping up with LJ.  I hope everyone on the f-list is doing well.  I'll try to catch up with you when I can.

 I have 4 teaching days and 2 faculty working days left of the school year.  Then I'll be done.  I'm so tired.  I took my 2nd graders on their class trip today.  They were good.   We had fun.  But it is so tiring.  I haven't had time or energy to write.  I haven't really been able to keep up with LJ.  We're still trying to get the work done on our house so we can move in.  My three-year-old is going through a temper tantrum at bedtime stage.  I'm exhausted.  Just thought I'd let you know why very few of you have heard anything from me.  On the upside, only a week to go.  :-)

Just flew back in from my conference in Minnesota today. I got a chance to see lots of friends from when we lived there and even some relatives. I learned a bit too. All in all, a successful trip. Now I'm going to try to catch up with LJ and fanfic. Yippee!

 After lady_karelia  posted that she had made latkes and applesauce, I've been craving that.  So tonight I made potato pancakes and a recipe I have for chunky cinnamon-ginger applesauce.  Yum!  Thanks for the idea!

My son has a bad cold.  My husband stayed home with him in the morning, and I arranged for my class to be covered in the afternoon.  He seems to be feeling better tonight.  Hopefully we'll all get more sleep tonight than last night.

On Wednesday evening I'll be flying out to go to a conference in Minneapolis, so I'll be "out of business" as far as Live Journal is concerned from Wednesday through Saturday.  I'll miss you guys.  Try not to do anything too exciting while I'm gone.  :-)