I Totally Meant too...

I really did mean to blog yesterday, but my wife got a wild hair and wanted to do some more painting! If you haven't checked out her latest project, click HERE to see it! Anyways, I needed to still read over 200 pages of a book so I could start my paper (doing that here in a bit- YUCKY!). We got everything moved out to the computer room (which means we had to unplug it and pull it forward- hence no computer yesterday for most of the day). After it was all moved out, my wife settled in to painting and I tried really hard (no, really I did) to read the last 200 pages. I was doing fair until the power went out. Some crazy driver hit a power pole in town. My parents still had electricity, but we didn't. So, on the lovely 103 degree day we had, the house ended up at nearly 90 degrees INSIDE before the power came back on. It took till almost 9:30pm (the power came back on a 6pm) to cool our house down to 85 degrees, and then we just opened the windows because it was the same temp inside and outside. Thanks to the heat, I ended up falling asleep for about an hour here and there. I guess I am just not motivated to do any more college crap. Isn't the program OVER YET? It seems like 5 years ago when I started it. I have to keep telling myself that next year at this time I will be done. DONE!!!!!! YIPPPEEEEE!

This morning I have summer "school". The other teacher went to yet another week long teacher workshop series. I had no desire to go to anything else. So I am running the show here alone today. Talk about craziness- lol. I hope that all this work is helping the kids maintain their skills. I guess we will find out come the beginning of school.

Well, I better get back to the little herd of kids I have here. Most are from the younger grades, I wish a lower grade teacher was willing to come and help out. I don't have any idea how to best help these k-3 kids. Anyways...

Later...

Heading Out...

Well, I am heading out for three days to a teacher workshop. It will be nice to see my sister (thanks sis, for letting me come and stay at your house). It will also be nice to escape my masters classes for a while. I am pretty fed up right now.

Our professor "forgot" there would be no class today (Monday) due to the holiday, so instead of class, he assigned us a 5 hour powerpoint project with a 9pm deadline. I turned mine in 4 minutes late, and it didn't have half of what I wanted to put in it. I am SO frustrated. I spent almost 9 hours on that dumb assignment. It was about how the judiciary branch affects education reform and policy. One article went on and on about how lawyers were the answer to education reform, and they ought to be invited to join the discussion. Whatever- lol.

I have ONE MORE ASSIGNMENT and then I am done with summer classes FOREVER (at least I HOPE it is forever!) I only have 4 more classes until I graduate. YEA! I can't wait for this program to be over- I am very tired of READING articles and WRITING essays. Wait...I sound like my 6th graders who get tired of reading and writing all the time.

I am getting more and more anxious (this relates more to excited) to get into my classroom and clean it out and up. I plan on really de-junking this year. If I haven't used it or seen it in the last 5 years, then I don't really think that I need it now- so it is GOING IN THE TRASH!

Well, since it is almost 12:30am and I am supposed to leave at 6:30am, I best head to bed (after I finish packing).

My wife has started to paint the kitchen. She has been working on it since I started working ony my class project- that was around 2pm. She has almost finished the bottom half color (she is going to two-tone the walls. Top half a yellowish color- the bottom half a tan-ish brown) It is looking SO nice. I am excited to see the finished product when I get back from my workshop. Way to go honey- you ROCK!

Later...