Today was excellent. I am always in awe by the courage of my students. They shared so much today and are true survivors. Emotional days make me really, really tired. I must go to bed at 9:30 which is very weird for this night owl.
That is all you get today. Eat it up, read it a few times-then you will feel like you read a lot! Ha ha.
1/21/09
1/20/09
Happy Inauguration Day!
I was filled with Patriotism as I watched the Inauguration tonight. I had DVRed it because I knew I would be teaching when the actual events happened. It was pretty awesome to watch history happen and I had tears in my eyes as President Obama took the oath. It is awesome that America has finally come to a place where an African-American can be President. That makes me happy inside. We have come along way! I hope our country can pull together and make true change happen and get closer to fixing the many problems we face as a nation right now.
Speaking of Change, it is Challenge Day tomorrow at our school. I am very excited. I better get to bed before a very emotional day!
Later.
Speaking of Change, it is Challenge Day tomorrow at our school. I am very excited. I better get to bed before a very emotional day!
Later.
1/19/09
For All Wisconsinites....or people who know a Wisconsinite. (That is all of you because I am one!)
I read this on a friend's blog the other day and thought I should put it on my blog too, seeing you cannot go to that blog anymore without an invite which makes me sad. Oh well! These are all so true and it made me a bit homesick. Well, I must now go to bed. Term 3 starts tomorrow. Yipee. We are over half way over with the school year. Not that I don't like school, I just like summer more!
Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 38 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by,you might live in Wisconsin
If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's'too pricey,' you might live in Wisconsin
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin
If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of HeadCheese, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have either a pet or a child named 'Brett,' you might live in Wisconsin
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin
If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha , Menomonie &Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin
If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin
If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear,and you sing gently, 'From the land of sky-blue waters,'....you might live in Wisconsin
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2. 'Vacation' means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once
5. You often switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again
6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday
7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals ).
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.
12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Farm and Fleet at any given time.
13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
15. You refer to the Packers as 'we.
16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.
20. You know how to polka.
21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
23. Down South to you means Illinois .
24. A brat is something you eat.
25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
26. You go out to fish fry every Friday
27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
29. You find minus twenty degrees 'a little chilly.
30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 38 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by,you might live in Wisconsin
If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Park Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have ever refused to buy something because it's'too pricey,' you might live in Wisconsin
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Wisconsin
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Wisconsin
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Wisconsin
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Wisconsin
If you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of HeadCheese, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have either a pet or a child named 'Brett,' you might live in Wisconsin
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Wisconsin
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Wisconsin
If you know how to say Oconomowoc, Waukesha , Menomonie &Manitowoc, you might live in Wisconsin
If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Wisconsin
If every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear,and you sing gently, 'From the land of sky-blue waters,'....you might live in Wisconsin
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE WISCONSINITE WHEN
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2. 'Vacation' means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once
5. You often switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again
6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday
7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings and funerals ).
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them.
12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Farm and Fleet at any given time.
13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
15. You refer to the Packers as 'we.
16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.
19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.
20. You know how to polka.
21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
23. Down South to you means Illinois .
24. A brat is something you eat.
25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
26. You go out to fish fry every Friday
27. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
28. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
29. You find minus twenty degrees 'a little chilly.
30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Wisconsin friends.
1/17/09
Laziness is all I have today...
I have been lying on my couch for about two hours this morning. I am blogging as a procrastination tool. I really don't want to go into work and finish my grades, but I must. I just finished season one of Pushing Daisies. It is a spectacular little TV show. I suggest it to each of you to add to your get through winter list of things to watch. Each of you have one of those lists right? It is very artistic and has amazing colors in it. It is set modernly but actually brings lots of classic cars that are all rebuilt. It is about a pie maker who has the power to bring people and living things back to life once they have died. There are consequences of this like, if he keeps them alive then another person or bug or dog have to die. He helps a private investigator solve crimes by bring people back to life for one minute to tell how they were killed. He then touches them a second time to put them back to dead. It is very cool and interesting and you should check it out. My description did not give it too much justice, by the way.
I like that we have a three day weekend. Sorry to those of you who have to work on Monday. I love Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is awesome.
Next week is Challenge Day at my school. It is going to be awesome. I am so excited. If you have not been educated about Challenge Day visit challengeday.org and become eduacted. They will be on the Oprah show on Monday, January 26th. Watch that too. I actually have met the two people who created the program and they are amazing human beings.
Well, here I go to get some motivation. I guess winter will do this to you.
I like that we have a three day weekend. Sorry to those of you who have to work on Monday. I love Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is awesome.
Next week is Challenge Day at my school. It is going to be awesome. I am so excited. If you have not been educated about Challenge Day visit challengeday.org and become eduacted. They will be on the Oprah show on Monday, January 26th. Watch that too. I actually have met the two people who created the program and they are amazing human beings.
Well, here I go to get some motivation. I guess winter will do this to you.
1/15/09
Highlights
Highlights of the day:
1. Knowing it was the end of the teaching week for me and that it will be a three-day weekend.
2. Knowing I would be able to go back to my bed later in the day.
3. My students being good.
4. The day going quickly.
5. Tying my basketball players together in order to teach them a zone defense.
6. Red Robin burger and fries.
7. The Office
I don't have much to say, obviously. You fans of the short post will now be happy. Give me a high five later!
1. Knowing it was the end of the teaching week for me and that it will be a three-day weekend.
2. Knowing I would be able to go back to my bed later in the day.
3. My students being good.
4. The day going quickly.
5. Tying my basketball players together in order to teach them a zone defense.
6. Red Robin burger and fries.
7. The Office
I don't have much to say, obviously. You fans of the short post will now be happy. Give me a high five later!
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