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| Here are some pictures of Sojourner. NEWBORN 
FAMILY 
GODZILLA!! 
BATH TIME 
SIDEWAYS 
Sojo and Micah are visiting the grandparents (Micah's) in New Jersey as I type. I'm researching MK reentry program options for a "paper" that I'm compiling. I used quotation marks around the word paper because I am too lazy to think of a better word to fit there. Technically, I am compiling information in to an "article" of sorts. A web entry? I don't know. It's a draft of some sort. Love to friends I have not seen in so long. Philadelphia has been a learning time. Too fast paced for my liking. Ah well. Pressing on.
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| So I'm wondering when honesty is just plain ole' complaining. I'm a grump today and I mean a grump. I think I'm just sleepy. Someone needs a nap . . . me. What is it about being tired that makes people so prone to be upset and moody? Hmmm. What really is getting to me? I've been disappointed by my teaching lately. Especially on the planning end of things. I read about this Filipino author (Nick Joaquin-- check him out) who up and quit school after sixth grade because he decided he could learn more from books than from his teacher. Ahh! I look at my class and think, am I more useful to books than these kids? Am I teaching them truth-- life changing truth??? The difference between adjectives and adverbs. . . hmmm. But then I survey my cherubs and think, who among them is acutally going to spend the time reading and then grow up to be an author and write about how useless teachers are? I think I'm safe in saying that these kids need me as I need them. We've bonded, Lord help us, and this'll carry us throughout the school year. | | |
| So I have another blog. Shhhh. . . don't get jealous Xanga. I just thought I'd let any readers that are interested know: http://racheloliverstevenson.blogspot.com . So there it is. I will continue to type on both. I just have the chance to upload pics on Blogger and I like that option. I have yet to get back to my school work-- need to. I think I may make an emergancy coffee run. Kelly and Kari I miss you! I miss making those runs with you. Micah doesn't like coffee. But I love him more than coffee (or chocolate!) so his indifference, even distaste, for my liquid of choice is more than excusable.  | | |
| I don't really have much to say. I'm pretty much all typed out. I make word documents all day. Imagine that: a language arts teacher that communicates all day.  Guess I'm just language laden lately. Did you like the alliteration? Seriously though, I am at the end of my typing for the night. I really need to get home and jump in bed. Tomorrow is a big day of grading assignments and assessing student presentations: 8th grade power points and 6th grade dramas. Yay! Thought of tonight: God is big. Really big. | | |
| I have so much work to do in my classroom, but my eyelids are heavier than my will to fight! I just texted a friend to pray for me and he texted back, "Sleep well. I'll pray that you have good rest and that you will wake up refreshed."
I never even told him I was thinking (however guiltily) about a nap. So that's where I'm headed next.
Oh, and check this out. . . I have lost my engagement ring (don't worry folks-- it's not a real diamond, but it is precious to me!! SIGH) and the cat ran away.
"The cat" is Morgan, a yellow tiger who fluctuates between being a purring ball of love and a merciless biting wildcat. He's gone! (Just today). He has to come back soon. I'm just house-sitting and his owner returns in a few days!
OK, sleepy time. More later. Watch and learn. | | |
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