Okay, I'm good with this.

How about I ran 47 minutes on the treadmill today? I am so excited. I logged 3.48 miles. Yipee. My feet are a little sore, but I was able to run and talk to someone for about 10 minutes. This running deal is pretty cool. The training in the afternoons with the cross-country team really has helped. Running in 100 weather is pretty awesome for building stamina.

School is good. I had to give my 3rd block discipline sheets to fill out. There are blanks for every incident and every consequence. I shouldn't have to do this, but I have some knuckle-head types who think that they need to grace us all with the latest rap lyrics or a little of Whitney's "It's Not Alright, But It's Okay." I've explained how silly this is going to look on a discipline referral, but I'm having so many outbursts, that I have NO choice. So much for that. My other two classes are dreams when it comes to behavior. It's really proving to be a good year.

I've gotta wash some clothes. UGH. Why do I hate doing that so much?

To the wash! See you lather!

D is for Delightful.

My day today was positively delightful. School, of course. Didn't seem too bad. I worked hard, but the students did too. Then about a mile and a half with the cross-country team. Next, I chugged back to the land of the domicile for a haircut, followed by dinner and coffee with Hippy
Chick. I really mean it when I ask, "Who could ask for anything more?" I mean I could, but I don't think I could be more satisfied with my day.

Now, papers to grade and lesson plans and entering of grades. Can I do it? YES I CAN!

Tomorrow, friends!

Just grading papers.

Hey. I am just here grading papers. Stacks and stacks of papers. Ugh. I did get out long enough to go work out with Mrs. C. and Hippy Chick. I would love to wax rhapsodic about something totally stupid like how I LOVE Evil Dick from Big Brother or how I almost went to church this morning, but I have the youth of America to give feedback to via a grade on a paper.

Hugs to all.

P. S. Lovely week to y'all.

Personal Best (Not the Movie from the 80's)

I had an unbelievable day at the gym. I just went in to get a treadmill workout this afternoon. I thought I'd do 50 minutes of something. I decided that I'd do 5 circuits of 2 minutes walking, 2 minutes walking on a steep incline, then 2 minutes at 4.2 and 4 minutes at 4.0. I did the first 10 minutes and the walking of the second. I then decided that I'd run longer than the six minutes. Well, I did. I ran for the REST OF THE 50 minutes!

I'm really pleased because I felt kind of bad when I went out this week with the cross-country team. It was 98 degrees plus and humid. I wasn't able to jog a full mile. I guess that it builds endurance. Those conditions seem to have built stamina I didn't know I had. I felt fantastic. Afterwards, I felt as if I could have gone some more. I did a total of 3.37 miles, a personal best as far as distance is concerned.

A big yea me!

Happy Saturday!

Okay, I couldn't keep my eyes open at 9:15 last night, so I went to bed. I woke up at about 8:45 feeling as if I could take over the world. Now it's about 11:30 and I'm needing a nap. What illness do I have? I am SO sleep deprived, I suppose.

Last night we went back to the local Cajun-y hangout. I got a Bourbon Street Chicken Salad which was pretty tasty. My friends Fiona and Snoopy enjoyed happy hour to the max. I stuck with the ever-popular unsweetened tea. After, oh, about 8 glasses of that, I still fell out once I got home. Does caffeine lose its impact when you reach a certain age?

I have spent a good two hours watching videos on YouTube this morning. That site will suck your life right out of you. I started out watching Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis. How can a family be so talented? I just love jazz and most classical. If you haven't seen it, there's a clip from Sesame Street with Hoots the Owl (Where did this bird come from? I'm a big Sesame Street devotee, but haven't ever seen him.). Anyway, don't ask me how, but I wound up watching Weird Al videos. He is a GENIUS. Listen to his lyrics. He has mad skills. I watched the White and Nerdy video, one where it's just him in front of a green screen and Donny Osmond doing that dancing and silliness that winds up in the video for just a few seconds. Very entertaining. "Whiter than sour cream" still makes me laugh out loud.

Well, it's Saturday, so the parents are coming over. They're almost here, so I'm gonna go get ready. Maybe more later, but if my history is any indication, probably not. I love Saturdays. Once college football starts, you can't get any better.

Tired Again.

Happy Thursday to the great out-yonder. School was good today. It's been pretty fun on a regular basis. Sure, there's the normal crap, but overall, it's been good.

I stayed really late this afternoon to get some work done. I HATE grading papers. Isn't it funny that the part that seems the most fun when you're in school is actually a sonuvabeep. I like interaction with my students, but grading? Ugh.

I'm so tired that I'm coming up empty on any topic tonight.

Cat Stevens & The Wonderpets (not together, though that'd be AWESOME!)

These two items were left over from Sunday. I just wanted to make sure that I covered them because you need to know.

Cat Stevens. I had no sooner gotten the fact that I didn't like Cat Stevens out of my fingertips on Sunday than I watched CBS Sunday Morning and who was on it but the illustrious CAT STEVENS. I learned that he is quite the gentle soul and that I think I actually really like his voice. I don't think that my head would explode if I had to hear "Morning Has Broken" one more time, as I once did. Life is funny.

And now for my exaltation of The Wonder Pets. I LOVE this show. The Child loves it and prior to its coming on, he goes around saying, "Pets, pets, pets." He is absolutely mesmerized by them, as am I. If you haven't had the pleasure, three little animals who by day are pets in a classroom, do great feats of wonder after the school bell rings. Linny, the hamster; Tuck, the turtle; and Ming-Ming, the duck use teamwork to save a baby animal in peril. It has a tinge of the PC business going on, but nothing I can't stand. They're so darned cute. I told my sister I was gonna DVR it for The Child, but I was actually doing it for myself!!! It's done in a little operetta style kind of like what Mister Rogers used to do in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Check them out. They are awesome. When Ming-Ming said things were "twagic," I just about lost it.