Sneaky Blogger

I'm in second period.

The kids are all working on a Powerpoint project.

And I am blogging.

(Sneakily.)

Last week was exhausting: there was a ton of upfront "teacher time" which required massive energy on my part. We started a new book on Friday, and so I read the first 20 pages of Things Fall Apart in a nice clear, loud, expressive voice to FOUR different periods.

Fell asleep that Friday at 9:30pm. Woke up the next morning at 9am. Was knackered indeed, and relished every minute of those 11.5 sleeping hours.

After that, I resolved, "Less of me; more of them." I believe students learn better by discovering new information on their own anyway-- it helps them learn better and also keeps ME from crashing and burning.

Still: I now have time to sneaky blog, and can't help feeling guilty. Eep.

That's all for now-- should supervise the kiddos!

My Blog Looks Like Autumn Now.

Maybe I should have waited until after Labor Day, but it FEELS like Autumn in the Pacific Northwest. It's been more rainy and cool than sunny the last several weeks, and everyone has started carrying around their jackets and sweaters. Plus, school's starting!! What other proof do you need?

And also, just hypothetically speaking, sometimes people have really boring evenings, and just end up talking to some other people on the phone for a long time, and then hypothetically after that, don't feel like going out, so hypothetically they watch a couple episodes of the Office, and then spend time on the internet and then hypothetically they might think, "I'm bored with my blog look. It's so gray. It's looked like that for so LONG," and then, hypothetically, the person might look for Autumn pictures on the internet and then use the next hour to pick new Autumny colors for the blog, so that the person can feel hypothetically productive, even if it was only because the person updated a blog in Autumn themes.

While lying in bed like a slug.

Just, hypothetically.