5 Things http://gertrude.wordpress.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/29b2498578d713feb35a0d7d742c01f3?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png 5 Things http://gertrude.wordpress.com http://gertrude.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/649/ http://gertrude.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/649/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:00:51 +0000 Eleanor http://gertrude.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/649/ ]]>
  1. I
  2. am
  3. a
  4. little
  5. lost.
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  1. About 10 trick or treaters last night.  Little kids from the neighborhood mostly.  A few teens.  No students of mine which is too bad because I made cupcakes.  Great restorers of faith for me were the folks across the hall who left a bowl of candy even though they weren’t there (excellent), and the trick or treaters who each only took a few pieces of same and didn’t empty the whole bowl into their sacks.  It restored my faith in Halloween and America.  I did feel a little lame about making the cupcakes, but none of them (my students) coming.  Oh well.  Cupcakes for teacher lunch on monday then.
  2. Went to the dedication of the new Organ (hee) and it sounds great.  It was a really nice service, and nice to see the results of all that planning.  “Organ!  Awake!”  (hee, again) 
  3. In the last few days I’ve watched Ice Age, The Happening (only a little, even though I had seen it before it was too scary) and The Village.
  4. Chris left Afghanistan today and should be back with his family by the end of the week.  Hooray, Hooray, Hooray!
  5. Paul and I did some singing last night.  Very fun, though I am not tremendously talented.  Still fun though.  I think I would be better, never great but better, if I sang more often.  For a person who likes music, I sure don’t listen to much.
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  1. Slept late, took a nap, going to bed early.
  2. Dinner with AB.  Good.  She travels a lot.  We’ve been friends for a long time.  I’m lucky.
  3. Rain. Needs. Too. Stop.  Also boo to the coming daylight savings.
  4. This summer I want to get an RV and travel around the US visiting National parks, family, friends, and state fairs.
  5. Chris should be leaving Afghanistan, Sunday!  Hooray!
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  1. It’s “lentil-ganza” around here as I just spent hours chopping and dicing and boiling etc and now have lentil soup for tonight, and lentil salad to take to school tomorrow.  The soup is pretty good.  I just wish I had a giant loaf of bread to dip in it, but I am trying to lay off the bread for at least 10 minutes.
  2. If you yell across the courtyard to the people (who you’ve never met) playing with their children: “Hey are you coming to my house for Halloween?  I’ve got candy!” you become “that crazy lady whose house we are not going to.”  Also: yelling out the window on Halloween “come up here!  I’ve got candy!” yet again makes you a character of some suspicion.  I’m so conflicted over Halloween.  I know I could go to other places that have more children, like Paul’s family, and get the Halloween vibe, but I cannot desert my post!  It is my duty to hand out candy.  What is unfortunate is that those household who do not pass out candy, and those who do not send children to trick or treat mess up the delicate balance that is America.
  3. This was the first weekend since school started that I didn’t have any responsibilities/activities.  Was very nice. 
  4. One thing, I did have to write a recommendation for a kid for college.  That’s a lot of pressure.  I don’t know how the high school TAs at our school survive, because they have to do a jillion.
  5. Tired again.  and here comes the monday.
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  1. I spent more than one moment today wandering around in tired confusion.  I need some down time to recharge, because all is haze and nuttiness.  My headaches still linger and the water problem has not really been addressed.  Must drink more. (water.  Other drinking might not be as helpful.)
  2. Just a little salute to my pal Liz, who makes staff meetings fun.  Also lunch.  If we could install some sort of dumb-waiter, or pneumatic tube system that would enable us to send jokes and odd objects back and forth between our classrooms, that would be great.
  3. We probably won’t get to do that, since there will likely be pretty strong budgets cuts this year, I found out at  a county teacher meeting yesterday.  Could get a little ugly, and of course, pneumatic tube system innovations will be the first to go, I don’t have to tell you.
  4. The chorus concert last night was great.  My favorite part was when the high school men’s chorus sang with the middle school men’s chorus.  The contrast between those little sixth graders, that are just pocket sized and the senior boys, was so amazing.  How can they grow so different in just 6 years?  The instrumental concert is tomorrow.  I am going for perfect attendance this year, so I feel committed to doing it, but it is not helping my overall frazzle level this week.  On the plus side, I have a little found time since our early release activity was postponed.  I hope a little lunch and coffee shop run will help me have some good productive hours before the concert.  My classroom is in serious need of cleaning.
  5. Still waiting for my TV to come back from repair.  The store hints it may be soon.  That would be helpful.  I am actually going to bed extra early tonight, not only because I need the rest, but so I can get up early and watch Glee online before I go to work.  Yes, I am the saddest no tv havingest person ever.
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  1. My little cat violet is lying across my arms purring and napping.
  2. It’s time to go get some lasagna, but who can move such a sweet kitty?
  3. My TV might be ready by the end of the week.  Or it might not.
  4. Up at 5:30, out of the house by 6:50 (hit the snooze several times) very busy weekend, it’s only Monday and I am tired already.  If I can go to 10 I can get 8 hours of sleep, get up at 6 and do it again.  Getting in two hours early is very helpful.
  5. Violet jumped down.  Time for lasagna.
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  1. I don’t just love Glee.  It turns out I am obsessed with it.  I’ve just spent way to long looking at old episodes and future clips, including the smoking hot Puck singing “Sweet Caroline.”  Yowza.
  2. It is cold and rainy. Yuck.
  3. Oklahoma lost to Texas.  Boo.  Texas Bites.
  4. Good mission retreat at church today.  Aside from the unheated building a productive time. Not sure what’s next for me, though I think I agreed to do at least two things.  Oops.
  5. Whoever is in charge of keeping my house clean is doing a crappy job. 
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  1. I love the show Glee.
  2. Last night I was feeling headachy and thought this was either plague, or that I hadn’t had enough water to drink.  Paul brought me a big glass of water that I was sipping on while I was dozing off, and sometime in the middle of the night I woke up suddenly, and poured it all over myself. 
  3. I also got a crick in my neck. Or I am achy from the coming plague.
  4. I stayed at work until 7 tonight.  If I could do that for a few weeks I might be able to get caught up.  As it is, tomorrow I will be only mostly behind, instead of completely behind.  Victory!
  5. I have nice cats.  They are especially cuddly now that cold weather is around.
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  1. At vestry I had the yarn with which I am going to make Jeff, who is very ill, a hat, and we sent it around the table so each person could lay some good mojo on it.  It was very touching, the meeting still kept going, but each person held it in their hands for a little while and when it got back to me it was all warm and full of power.  I want to finish that hat by next Monday, when I am scheduled to take dinner to his house.
  2. It made me glad I went to the meeting, even though I could have gotten out of it, because I had a school meeting that lasted until 7:15 and I had said I didn’t think I could make vestry.  But I battled with my conscience a little while in the school parking lot, and went anyway.
  3. Got some cases of swine flu at school.  Is my time coming?  Will I dodge it? Certainly would be embarrassing to have a sub, because my desk is such a mess.
  4. Trying to hold on until the 24th, which will be the first Saturday since school began that I don’t have stuff to do.  Also trying to wake up at school and get some stuff done to get ahead, but non classroom things are filling my time.  Also, disorganization.
  5. I need a personal chef.  Where are my waffles and fruit, Chef?  Come on!
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  1. Yesterday was the day of many small church activities Read at 7:30, Sub for Sunday School, Greeter after the 11:15 (hello, hello) and read again at the 5.  Also gave a stewardship talk and mentioned that sometimes I begrudge the time I spend there.  That’s right, I am not always a cheerful giver.
  2. Spent time this afternoon grading with Liz at a local coffeeshop/bar/restaurant, with a mojito in one hand and grading pen in the other.  Made the experience more tolerable.
  3. After grading and dinner, Paul and I went to see Capitalism: “A Love Story.”  It was very good, and got me all riled about the evil!  EVIL! A priest in the movie said so. One example: Some companies take out life insurance on their employees, without their knowledge, so they profit when people die, and if they die young they get even more money.  What. The. Hell?
  4. I organized my yarn today.  I have lots of yarn.
  5. Being withdrawn is tough.  You have to avoid eye contact.
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