I cannot tell you all how frustrated I am to be here, at school, blogging when I could be at home, with my children doing the exact same thing. The students are gone, graduation is over–I got to take tickets at the gate, which was good on the one hand because I got to A…. Read More

Yeah–I know, it’s an oldie/but/goldie– but it’s still funny. And now it’s on a wooden plaque that I put up by my clock–green, with a gold border, very nice, but that’s not the best part. The best part is the signatures on the back from four of the best kids I may ever have taught… Read More

Okay…so he’s been even more obsessed with ruling the world lately, but the Cave Troll proved that we all dance to his tune in spades this morning. He’s been fastening his own car seat–it takes a while, and actually helping him earns you nothing but bloody eardrums and heightened blood pressure, so I got in… Read More

Hmmm… various things to talk about today… and about five minutes before I face plant into the laptop and fall asleep… (living a life of QWERTY, definitely…) so I guess I’m just going to have to random my way through it… Okay…about the title… I finished the TA’s fingerless mitts…and if the camera hadn’t run… Read More

Your Brain is Purple Of all the brain types, yours is the most idealistic. You tend to think wild, amazing thoughts. Your dreams and fantasies are intense.Your thoughts are creative, inventive, and without boundaries. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking of fictional people and places – or a very different life for… Read More

*Note–the following “Thank You’s” are ironic “Thank You’s” and are in no way to be misconstrued for the real thing, which is what I offer all of you who bear with my terrible ranting. Thank you–seriously–I mean that one. Now, on to the rant… As you all know, this year has been the most hellific,… Read More

I was going to go off on this post–seriously, just let’er rip about work, about California education, about Kaiser, about everything…I was going to be a Mount St. Vitriol and just erupt, spewing venomous words into the ether with Zeussian impunity and I still might do that–seriously–I’m still pissed off, I’m still feeling better, which… Read More

No news, mostly… Okay, anybody out there think it should be criminal mal-practice for a doctor to mention the words “malignancy” and “colonoscopy” in the same visit, take blood, and then, hello NOT CALL FOR EIGHT DAYS? It’s just a thought, really…I mean, it’s not like I have anything to lose or anything… oh…wait…maybe I… Read More

Okay…first of all, if you didn’t get to it before, my last post was sort of fun (if you happen to be in love with yourself, as we all know I am…) so don’t just blow it off because I’m on to something else… And second of all? SQUUUUUEUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why are we hyperventilating and dropping… Read More

OKay, so music is important to me–always has been, always will. I remember when my (biological) mom sang “You are my sunshine” to me when I was little and I cried–it’s a sad song. I remember the first time I heard “Puff the Magic Dragon” (also tears) and I remember the six-hundred times I listened… Read More