The Jobma is strong in this day.

Please let it continue through this week. I'm meeting for coffee tomorrow with the woman who would be my supervisor for the new job.

I have hooks by the door for my keys.

We have a small table directly inside, just for our keys & sunglasses.

and when they get to 2.5, they fart, "Ewww 'tinky!" and giggle maniacally.

I remember a cute cousin who, at about that age, would get wide-eyed and slightly embarassed and mumble "I fawded!"

She graduated college this summer. I'm sure she doesn't know why I look at her sometimes and giggle out of nowhere.

I'm pretty good about dropping my keys in the same place. I leave my work id in the car otherwise I'd never remember it.

However, I end up with change all of the floor. I try and put it away but some how it explodes all over. I'm going to be using my Winnie the Pooh cookie jar to hold change, hopefully I won't be too tempted to take off his head and dip into my spare change.

My took all of her spare change to her bank and they ran it through the counting machine -- she had $250.

The Jobma is strong in this day.

I hope so. That would be good for my mom too.

What did you accomplish?

I've gotten through one of the 6 manuals sitting on my desk.

Our spare change bought gas to F2f 2003.

I'm terrible.

I just got an e-mail from my prof. No class tonight, 'cause she doesn't feel well.

Pardon me as I scream WOOOOOOHOOOOOO all through the thread!

I do hope she feels better soon.

I've gotten through one of the 6 manuals sitting on my desk.

Yay, vw! And enjoy your night off from class.

I just got an e-mail from my prof. No class tonight, 'cause she doesn't feel well.

Yay! You definitely have been sounding like you need some down time.

All of that is wonderful, Erin! I can't wait to talk more about this with you, sweetie. I have scads of lessons and units and plans (you'll find in general that teacher editions aren't all that helpful, I suspect--about the only teacher guide I use consistently for lessons/units is Folgers for Shakespeare).

If you haven't already, however, you need to order, own, read thoroughly, and worship Jim Burke's series: The English Teacher's Companion, Reading Reminders and Writing Reminders.

I think they should be standard, required reading for anyone planning to teach secondary English, and they're actually a lot of fun to read through. I've gotten so many great ideas from them.

I also strongly recommend John Golden's book Reading in the Dark, which is a fabulous discussion of how to integrate film study with literature study and Teaching Poetry in High School (even if you're a middle school teacher) by Albert Somers.

Also, a resource for you as a middle school person: The New England League of Middle Schools has great middle school info. My mom is the teacher-in-residence there, and she loves Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher by Rick Wormeli (scroll down and you'll see it here: [link] ).

Um. I'm going to stop taking up b.org bandwidth now...

I have been living off of spare change for the last 3 weeks. Seriously. I look at change scattered in other people's cars and think "I could buy gas with that..."