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Quick Update

I really do need to blog more often -

  • Next year I will be teaching AP Language and AP Literature. I am excited about the whole Brit Lit thing, but gobsmacked about the amount of work.
  • For whatever reason, this year I cannot get a list of students who have registered for the AP classes until the last two days of school. Forget the fact that all who have registered are sitting in the computer or that for the past two years I've gotten the list in May... suddenly it's an issue. The overly helpful person who inserted him/herself into the situation suggested that I simply give the summer assignment to those who ask for it. I think this person is pissed that I actually have a summer assignment that students do because it's graded. Of course, if I simply give the assignment to the three students who ask for it, it won't be... thanks for your support.
  • Our department is no where on finding a vocab. program. I haven't seen anything I'm remotely interested in and everyone else seems to think I'll find one, so why bother looking.
  • I'm so ready for summer. My sophomores are killing Julius Caesar. No matter what I do they sit in the room like dead fish. Many of them smell like dead fish also.
  • We had two days of summer-like weather and we discovered that "booty-shorts" (hot pants) have made a big come back. Seriously, how do parents send their 14 year old children out of house with butt cheeks on display and then express shock that little Susie will be having her own "little susie"? It's also been suggested that the school's name be changed to Hoochie High School.
  • I hate wedges. I hated them in 1982. They're really ugly... why do people keep buying them?
  • The baby has to see a lung specialist because of her Darth-Vader-like breathing. Unless you're born with a large black plastic helmet, you're not supposed to breath like that. Who knew?
  • Luckily, the appointment was scheduled so far in advance that I actually got a sub. Others have not been so lucky lately.

It's been a busy few weeks.

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