Sunday, October 31, 2010

Just so much to do...

There is so much going on right now and I don't know where to start and what I want to do is not what is priority for me right now. All of a sudden I have the urge and desire to clean the house knowing that I need to finish lesson plans for the next three weeks. Then I have a week at Thanksgiving to plan the last week of student teaching.

Then I still have to figure out what it is that I am going to do after that. Not sure what I'm going to do as far as a job after that happens. Not sure if I will be able to find a job at Christmas or if I will just end up subbing for the spring but then I would still have to have a job to get through the summer.

Off to make some powerpoints on the Renaissance.

Love ya!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Just a liar

I know I keep saying that I'm going to get on here more often but I have yet to do it. I'm still trying to work out how I keep everything balanced and I don't like that. I have a problem with sitting still for too long. It makes it really hard to stay in the same room for eight hours a day.

I did just get finished mixing up some brownies. I can't way to see how they come out I made some with a peanut butter filling and the rest have peppermint patties in the middle. Right now I am watching Rocky Horror Picture show because first it was on Glee and now it's on a different channel. And somehow I've convinced my husband to watch a musical and I don't think he realizes it yet. It takes everything just to get to watch Glee, which I missed a part of it. I have no idea what happened in the end. It really makes me want to watch Moulin Rouge. Then again that's a musical too and we haven't gotten the VCR hooked up yet.

Watching this really makes me see how prudish we are in this day and age. This movie was subject to being banned in countries and if it wasn't banned forced into the midnight time slot. I haven't really made up my mind one way or another about this movie. Just really want to be able to check it off as one of those movies that I've seen.

Love the shoes that I've seen so far.

Why do women giggle when men speak French to them?

Love ya!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Just a few words...

that were mispronounced today during presentations.

Constantinople, schism, monetary, indictment, interference, Stephen, zealots, fortifications, perished, oblivion, Nicholas, Marseilles, sepulchre, Louis (as in Louis, King of France), contagion, Constantine, Venetians, Bosphorus, tactical, diplomacy, Tunis, liberties, medieval, sect, Benedict, martyrs, edict, Byzantine

There were a few more that I will give them because they are hard to say in general. --Saladin, Damietta and Acre (the city in the middle east)

It was a long day and there's still one more to go of presentations.

People make sure that your children can read. That is so important. Some of these are words that sophomores in high school should not be mispronouncing especially if they are in Pre-Advanced Placement classes. They also need a little help with grammar and spellcheck. Please make sure that they understand that there are words that need to be capitalized that spell check will not catch. There are also several spelling errors that are the same way, the computer will not recognize that you misspelled a word if it actually spells another word, it only makes it awkward to read the sentence. So even after spell check you need to sit down and read your paper or have someone else read it for you or in rare cases you may do both. I only say have someone else read it because you may not catch your mistakes because you know what you want it to say and you will unnaturally skip over these mistakes never knowing any different.

I promise that I'm going to get around to doing some more blogging when life finally stops trying to kick me all over the map. There are quite a few different things that I would like to address and I just haven't had the time to get to them. Especially since House is coming on...I have to decide. I also have a quilt that I'm working on. It seems to be going very well right now. Of course I really haven't gotten bored with it like I have any other time.

love ya!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Just a bit better...

Today was a little bit better than yesterday but I can tell you that is was not much better. There was atleast smiling and laughing until they realized that they were laughing and then you could tell that they were all feeling guilty. It makes me sad to think that this is how the next few weeks are going to be. But then again it may actually be longer than a few weeks.

There aren't words to say what is on my mind and in my heart. My heart hurts because it just doesn't make sense. I know that it never makes sense but this time it just hits really close to home. Usually you don't have to deal with this personally but this time it was. When you know the family it makes all the difference in the world how you handle the emotions.

And Josie was right it does bring up all the old memories. They're the ones that you don't want to think about but all of a sudden they come flooding back and you can't do anything but be forced to deal with the new emotions and the old ones on top of that. I hate it.

I miss Thomas.

love ya!

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Just....

I just wish that I weren't going to work tomorrow to see so many broken hearts.

We love you and miss you sweetie.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Just been a mess...

Lately things have been going crazy and they don't seem to be letting up anytime soon so I have to say sorry now.

I will those enlighten you with a few things that I've heard in the high school classroom.

What is a gladiator?

Hannibal attacked Rome by air.

Hannibal attacked Rome with sheep.

Obama is the pope.

Obama is a dictator.

There were more but those are the only ones that I can remember right now and yes some of them were highly inappropriate. And yes these are answers that are coming from sophomores in high school some of them from Pre-AP class.

Four weeks down eight more to go. One observation down two more left. Counting down the days until this over. One of our more troublesome students has been suspended for three days and then thirty days in alternative education...minimum. That should get us to almost Thanksgiving and then I only have about two weeks after that or maybe just six or seven days depending on how she is over there. But knowing our district she will get out early for good behaviour or something like that.

Yes Friday was one of those crazy days that makes you wonder why you got up. There was a gang fight, a girl fight and then a gas leak. It was just one of those crazy days since we were giving a test in part of the classes...it happened in one where we were giving a test. So that made it crazy this week and next since the end of the grading period is the 15th. So we have two weeks to fit in a three week unit. Fun has begun.

love ya!