New year, new list!

1. The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage
2. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
3. The Velveteen Rabbit by some lady, I can't remember. It's a tiny book, but I've read it three times for school. I think that counts for something.
4. Pretty in Plaid by Jen Lancaster
5. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
6. And God Created the Au Pair by Benedicte Newland and Pascale Smets
7. Knitting Under the Influence by Claire LaZebnik...

Did I post that I finished my paper after approximately 800 revisions? I did. It was 36 pages once it was all bound together. It was a fine feeling to drop it off at school! Alas, that was only the first half of my thesis. The rest gets written next semester. Allegedly the second half is the "easy" part.

It better be!

So now I'm done with school-school and with work-school. My students are doing well, my principal gave me a good evaluation, and...

Belle's blog is asking 2008 to hurry up, but mine is asking it to slow down. I need another week!

I've been so busy lately that I'm having trouble just being in the now.

Be. Here. Now.

It's one of my mantras, but I can't quite get myself there because of all the other things going on in my head. I have the opposite of ADD- what would that be called? It's not that I can't focus, it's that I'm hyper-focused on this paper that I'm writing. I've got...

Sometimes, it IS them. I'm really tired of hearing, "Do we HAVE to write this?" "Do we HAVE to play this?" "Do we HAVE to show all of our work?"

Yes, yes you do. Last time I checked elementary school was not optional. When you grow up and go to college, then you can decide to skip class or not turn in assignments. But hey, I have an idea! Let's GET you to college first and then you can do what you want with that.

Granted, it is the...

The other day at work, I went into the lounge and someone asked me how my day was going and how my kids were doing. I said that I wasn't sure, the kids were really just "apathetic" that morning and just couldn't pull it together for whatever reason.

As soon as the word "apathetic" left my lips, I realized I was describing myself.

I was distracted, my day was not planned out well, I had 2 meetings to go to after school, I had homework to...