Happy Birthday to Me!

Posted by on Oct 6, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Today will be a very good day. I woke to about seven birthday messages from dear friends on email (some serious cards, some snarky comments, pretty much par for my group) and a DVD copy of Raising Arizona from DH. This man totally understands me.I find, from IMDb, that I share a birthday with Elisabeth Shue, Jeremy Sisto, and that yummy Welshman I’ve already drooled over, Ioan Gruffud....
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Worn Out

Posted by on Oct 3, 2005 in dish | 1 comment I’m whipped.Part of it has to do with school–I feel like a hamster on a wheel lately, working and working and working and not seeming to get much of anywhere. My writing life is resting quietly by the wall, slowly being overtaken by mental kudzu. There’s a novel in there, but if I don’t get out the machete soon, it’ll get eaten alive. On top of that, crazy people...
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Amazing Disappearing Wife

Posted by on Sep 10, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Today I had the privilege of hauling self out of bed to go back to school for an inservice training. Sometimes inservice is like volunteering to tour the eighth circle of hell, but this morning’s was pretty good. Stuff I can use, even.Since DH and DS were out doing boy things when I called to say I was finished, I hied myself to the mall. Walked. Matched paint samples for my lovely...
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Namaste!

Posted by on Aug 23, 2005 in dish | 1 comment Did yoga this morning for the first time in ages. Can you say, “Stiff and unresponsive?”It is weird to do yoga with a Brittany sniffing in your ear the whole time.Feel better, though. Gotta try that again soon.
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I Suck Redux

Posted by on Aug 15, 2005 in dish | 4 comments Today I spent yet another day out of the classroom at a State workshop on how to do my job better. According to the official line, if I don’t have student achievement at 98% on our state test or higher for every kid in every class, I am ineffective.I would rant about the overall injustice of such an approach–I am, after all, human, as are the children in my classroom–but doing...
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