I'm playing hooky from work too!

I'm camped out in Starbucks trying to rewrite an unreadable report (it's supposed to be understandable to the average 10th-grader, and since I can't understand it, it needs some work), hiding from my work email.

The fact that I get free unfiltered wifi down here is just gravy. No, really. I'm already way more productive than I would be in my office.

the ick is moving around in my upper body region! EXPEL IT!!!

That video is great, Rick.

Hmm. I'm having one of those days where I've got too much stuff to do, and so I'm sitting here trying to decide which I should do first, rather than actually doing any of it. The major things I've got to do are laundry, cleaning my kitchen, and preparing some lesson plans. I think I'll do the kitchen first, then the lesson plans, but I'm still just stuck in this loop where, when I start to clean the kitchen, I start thinking, "But wait! I've got lesson plans to do!" And then, if I start to do the lesson plans, same thing happens.

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The fact that I get free unfiltered wifi down here is just gravy. No, really. I'm already way more productive than I would be in my office.

I'm actually being more productive too, in between bouts of supervising Ozzie/perkins interactions, and making sure Ozzie isn't going into insuilin shock.

juliana makes me blush madly.

turn us into an 'is.'

Kathy, that's so interesting. Thanks for sharing!

No, really. I'm already way more productive than I would be in my office.

Suela, that means that they should let you goof around online at your office, too. Right?

Hil, can you think about the lessons while cleaning the kitchen? Then, if you have a really great idea or soemthing, you can just take a short break, write it down, and go back to kitchening, right?

Rick, I liked the movie.

msbelle, I hope the ick is expelled as it deserves.

Actually, my battery was dying and I had to pee, so I've relocated back to the office--but I'm in a corner conference room which still, somehow, gets free Wifi. Yay!

Okay, back to my unreadable document.

Hil, can you think about the lessons while cleaning the kitchen? Then, if you have a really great idea or soemthing, you can just take a short break, write it down, and go back to kitchening, right?

I decided to work on the lesson plans first, since I didn't really feel like doing anything that required movement. I've got three days worth done -- I need 15 days. So, that's something. Plus, even if I just get the first five days done, plus general ideas for the rest, I can get them more specific during the weekend before I'll use them. It's really just the first five that I NEED done now.

(Of course, those first three that I did are mostly taken from a book of math projects for kids, with just some slight revisions. For a bunch of other ideas, I've found online lesson plans that are pretty much what I want to do, but just need some revision, but then there are some others that I really need to either write from scratch or just forget about, so those will take longer.)

Hil, won't they be easier to plan once you're already "inside things", know what you need better, how the lessons actually work, and the like?

Stephen Hawking says we have to colonize space:

HONG KONG (AP) - The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.

The British astrophysicist told a news conference in Hong Kong that humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years.

"We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added Hawking, who arrived to a rock star's welcome Monday. Tickets for his lecture planned for Wednesday were sold out.

He added that if humans can avoid killing themselves in the next 100 years, they should have space settlements that can continue without support from Earth.

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."