OK none of these stories are gross, but I hate writing titles.
I am so stressed out. I just want to snarf up Easter candy like mad. Good thing I don't have any in my house. And with the way I procrastinate, I probably won't until the Saturday before Easter.
Josh had some sort of weird allergic reaction or something today that made his eye swell up almost shut.
I gave him Benadryl, but that didn't seem to help, and it started to look worse. The doctor said it looks like it started with an allergic reaction and then got infected from him touching it or something. I hope it feels better tomorrow.
I finished the book that my classes wrote and uploaded it to the publisher today. I just hope it's not a disaster, because seriously? That was a lot of work. Hours and hours and hours. I'm just waiting for the e-mail saying, "Yeah, this is not going to work. You're going to have to fix this and that and buy some different software and do another thing... And pay us a bunch more."
When I was doing the book cover, my spell check told me that I had spelled "school" wrong. It was so weird, because I wasn't spelling it wrong. Sure made me feel stupid for a minute, though, because I thought I didn't know how to spell school.
I need to come up with a funding source to get some laptops or netbooks for debate next year so we don't have to keep paper files for extemp and foreign extemp. I think I'll post it on donorschoose.org and then we'll see what else I can do.
We have a district-mandated common core training on literacy across the curriculum the next two Tuesdays for an hour in the morning. They are having the English department conduct the trainings since literacy is kinda our thing, and they asked me to be one of the trainers. I only have to present to a group of 15 or 20 faculty-- there are 5 of us doing presentations-- so it's no big deal, except for the fact that most of the "across the curriculum" folks in this equation are going to be annoyed that they are being asked to do "one more thing," even thought it's really not that big a deal. Hopefully nobody asks me any questions I can't answer or registers a complaint that makes me want to poke them in the eye.
Had an interesting discussion with students the other day. We were discussing the quote, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." We were talking about intervening and standing up for someone who is being bullied or picked on, and one girl raised her hand and said that it's not always a good idea to intervene because then the person might start picking on you. She said that when she started high school, her aunt told her, "Just don't get involved. If you see stuff going on, just stay out of it." That's sad to me, and totally the opposite of what I teach my own kids and what I was trying to teach them. I don't think this little girl saw my viewpoint. When the topic of bullying comes up, so many people blame the teachers (and administrators), but kids don't do that sort of thing in front of the teachers usually. We have to somehow teach our kids to take some ownership of the issue and to stand up for one another. Our school actually doesn't seem to have too much of a problem with bullying and harassment but I asked the kids to think about what kind of environment they want to go to school in, and then to take action to create that. I think it went in one ear and out the other. Oh well.
This week we:
I am so stressed out. I just want to snarf up Easter candy like mad. Good thing I don't have any in my house. And with the way I procrastinate, I probably won't until the Saturday before Easter.
Josh had some sort of weird allergic reaction or something today that made his eye swell up almost shut.
I finished the book that my classes wrote and uploaded it to the publisher today. I just hope it's not a disaster, because seriously? That was a lot of work. Hours and hours and hours. I'm just waiting for the e-mail saying, "Yeah, this is not going to work. You're going to have to fix this and that and buy some different software and do another thing... And pay us a bunch more."
When I was doing the book cover, my spell check told me that I had spelled "school" wrong. It was so weird, because I wasn't spelling it wrong. Sure made me feel stupid for a minute, though, because I thought I didn't know how to spell school.
I need to come up with a funding source to get some laptops or netbooks for debate next year so we don't have to keep paper files for extemp and foreign extemp. I think I'll post it on donorschoose.org and then we'll see what else I can do.
We have a district-mandated common core training on literacy across the curriculum the next two Tuesdays for an hour in the morning. They are having the English department conduct the trainings since literacy is kinda our thing, and they asked me to be one of the trainers. I only have to present to a group of 15 or 20 faculty-- there are 5 of us doing presentations-- so it's no big deal, except for the fact that most of the "across the curriculum" folks in this equation are going to be annoyed that they are being asked to do "one more thing," even thought it's really not that big a deal. Hopefully nobody asks me any questions I can't answer or registers a complaint that makes me want to poke them in the eye.
Had an interesting discussion with students the other day. We were discussing the quote, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." We were talking about intervening and standing up for someone who is being bullied or picked on, and one girl raised her hand and said that it's not always a good idea to intervene because then the person might start picking on you. She said that when she started high school, her aunt told her, "Just don't get involved. If you see stuff going on, just stay out of it." That's sad to me, and totally the opposite of what I teach my own kids and what I was trying to teach them. I don't think this little girl saw my viewpoint. When the topic of bullying comes up, so many people blame the teachers (and administrators), but kids don't do that sort of thing in front of the teachers usually. We have to somehow teach our kids to take some ownership of the issue and to stand up for one another. Our school actually doesn't seem to have too much of a problem with bullying and harassment but I asked the kids to think about what kind of environment they want to go to school in, and then to take action to create that. I think it went in one ear and out the other. Oh well.
This week we:
- finished the round of swim lessons. I think maybe we'll try private lessons next and see how that goes.
- had Pinewood Derby. Josh won some and lost some, and said he had fun.
- had parent-teacher conferences for Josh and Lexi. It was good to talk to their teachers, even though I already pretty much knew what they would tell me.
- made campground reservations for Memorial Day.
We've had some beautiful weather the last few days, and hopefully we will get a little bit more the next few days. I'm ready to get outside a little and poke around in the flower beds. March Party is scheduled for Monday. So far the plan is batting cages and either grill or have a picnic.
1 comment:
Ugh. You have a lot going on. You have a right to feel stressed out! You need me to come to your meeting on and be a plant in the audience. I could raise my hand and make comments like, "That's brilliant! So glad we get the chance to implement that!!" and "Wow! How eloquently spoken. I just can't wait to add more literacy to my sophomore weight lifting curriculum!"
I hope Josh's eye feels better and the swelling goes down. Weird.
I think your kids really did hear what you were saying about bullying and looking out for each other. Even if they had blank stares on their faces, I'll bet it was something that made them think. So true.
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