stream of consciousness
I have no real topic today, but rather a number of random thoughts that have come to my mind. Just thought I'd share.
1) My brother joined the National Guard yesterday. He might be leaving for basic training on Wednesday. He's never been away from home for more than two weeks before. The house will be...odd without him.
2) The 6th grade girls are on a mission to sneakily deprive me of my coloured white board markers and substitute black ones in their place. So far, every attempt to force me to write with a lack marker has failed.
3) Cold, rainy days make me want to stay in bed. Instead I have to get up at 5.30. Not quite the same.
4) My sister broke up with her boyfriend yesterday. She didn't tell me. I found out from someone else. Also the fact that he came straight to our house after work. And then left before 9.
5) I upgraded my cell phone a couple of weeks ago. I really like it.
6) Inside recess is loud. For some reason the girls are chasing people around. And one of the boys is fending them off with a used Kleenex. Yes, that is life in the 5th/6th grade.
7) Both nights of basketball games this week are away...over an hour away. That's tiring. But I like my 'job' enough to do it. :-)
8) Teaching numerous subjects leads to desk messiness.
9) Apparently the idea of my love life is unbelievably more fascinating than anything else in the life of 6th graders.
10) We're studying the Battle of Little Bighorn this week. It always saddens me. I know that other countries and peoples have just a harsh a history of feeling superior and thus justifying unethical treatment of other groups. But that doesn't make our history any easier to study.
That's all I've got for today.