what a week

After a week of work, I get to take one more break before full time really starts. Down here in St. Louis for my sistah's wedding, the weather is wonderful. I definately do not miss the wind of Nebraska. I miss the quiet, though. Saturday is the day and we have a week full of the fun last-minute stuff that always needs to get done. Fortunately all the big, important stuff is taken care of, it's just the little finishing touches that we are doing now.

There have been lots of storms all over lately. We got our first tornado warnings of the season and that was really fun at work to deal with. I love it when they happen late at night because then everyone is in bed and we don't have to do anything but make sure they have blankets and pillows. Flooding seems to be the order of the day which sucks for the people storing stuff in our basement. Oh well, it's not my house.

I can't wait to get some astronomy done this summer. Thank goodness I'm taking it as a course in the summer because those are the skies I know the best so it should be a breeze. Keep looking up!

dear mike

I want to thank you for your valuable rantings. I had a pressing question and you dragged yourself away from work just long enough to answer.

I said you didn't have to encourage me and boy you really flew with that one. In fact, you did so well that I was in tears seconds after hanging up. But you know, that's why I love you. You always present a case so wholely that it looks closed. You almost had me believing that there really was no way out. That people who can't, teach. Well, that's so not true. I realized that I was only looking at the perspective of someone who had quit teaching. Someone who had tried and failed and then given up. I'm not going to do that to my students. I love them and I don't want to ever leave them in the situations some of them are in without hope.

You're right. There are those students, parents, and administrations who fight tooth and nail against any good thing a teacher tries to implement. But that's not the whole picture. There are those who glow when they talk about teaching. Because it's about the kids. They are what's going to keep me motivated.

P.S. This is why I was never good at comebacks.

k