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Date Posted: 17:26:58 01/05/06 Thu
Hello,
Sorry I've been MIA lately. Where on earth did December go? Here's what I remember doing. The first week of December I was doing report cards. Which of course meant doing all of the grading that I've been putting off so I could come up with averages. Then I spent a good part of the next 2 weeks shopping and getting ready for Christmas. And then the week before Christmas, the considerate subway workers decided to strike (even though their contract was expired for, like, 2 days, and the teachers worked for 2 and a half YEARS without a contract). So that was oh so fun. I had to drive to work. The first day I dipped into Manhattan to pick up a friend from work who lives in Harlem. THAT was a mistake. I spent THREE HOURS trying to get OUT of Manhattan. I didn't pick her up after that, but each day I spent anywhere from 3 to 5 hours in the car. It wasn't terrible (I got an iPod for Christmas, and because I buy my own Christmas presents and we don't have kids, I "gave" it to myself early), but I was exhausted when I got home. And then it was Christmas and we went to Arizona and came back and here I am.
It's January. Does anyone have a good reason to like January? Because I hate it. The weather is awful. And it's so much work! There are 2 weeks left in this marking period (whose idea was it to have 6 in a year? whatever happened to 4???), which means that my kids are finishing books, so they're handing in final projects and papers and finals are next week. I am dreading the piles of papers that will need to be graded quickly. And at the end of the month are the state tests, which coincidentally are not graded by the state, but by me. Yawn.
Okay, so I'm really not as cranky as I sound. I just joined Netflix so I'm planning on becoming a movie junkie. Any good recommendations to add to my list?
PS. I was looking through my Scotland pictures last night to show my students (part of Frankenstein was set in Scotland--an excellent book, by the way, if you haven't read it) and I started fantasizing about going back this summer. Anyone want to come?
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