Love Notes

Grades are due today.

No, because you don't know how to capitalize.
But nice try.

Motivation

I haven't posted in a long time. There comes a point where you don't want to do it because it has been sooo long that you have sooo much to write about and you lose motivation. That is where I am. So I am forcing myself to do this. To make myself feel better about wasting time blogging I am multi-tasking by also teaching. Boom.

First of all Christmas.

Christmas this year was awesome. It was just Megs and me since our siblings were at their in-laws (lame-o). So we had a single ladies Christmas. It was mostly about sitting around looking pretty but it was also about getting giant diamond rings.

Ok, they might be fake.

And also about dance parties in the kitchen while listening to Keri Hilson's "Pretty Girl Rock"

                                                                                      Yeah, we are totally gangsta'

We took a lot of naps. It was glorious.

Next, the car.

So one day right after school had started again I was looking online at vehicles. I have been driving a super awesome ghetto car. I love my parents, they are the most kind, giving people I know. They would go out of their way to give me anything I needed. That being said, I took the caddy from them last year with the understanding that it was a great hot weather car, with a wonderful air conditioner and it never breaks down. I wasn't exactly thrilled about driving an old man car, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. It broke down in the first two weeks and the air conditioner needed to be totally replaced this summer. I spent more time sitting at the wheel of that car crying while trying to get it to turn on than I ever wanted to. It was time. So I found a replacement. A 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid. I figure that this would balance my carbon footprint since the caddy I'd been driving couldn't pass the emissions test. Also, I may have forgotten to tell the dealership that.





It's a hybrid.

It's weird to come back to school, the kids act like they've never been in a classroom before and I have to totally retrain them. Plus as a a bonus I wound up getting a ton of kids that failed the first half of freshmen English from other teachers. Today I assigned more than half of my students to mandatory tutoring for failing my class. This is going to be awesome. I will not go down without a fight. The thing about teaching freshmen is that if you make something look official enough they will get scared and do it. The fact that the sign-in papers for tutoring are in triplicate make it look totally legit. Also, threatening to call their moms works too.

Finally (yes I am using transitions like I teach my students to use) my birthday.

I would like to take a moment to give a little shout out to my parents, Martin Luther and the Mrs. for managing to coordinate their son's birthday and mine. I love having a three day weekend for the birthday. This year I went to Vegas with some friends. We had fun. A lot of it. We got pulled over on the way there for straddling the line, which really is an awesome thing to say. So of course we took pictures.




 It was a great start to a weekend full of shenanigans.

So now I am back at work, trying to explain a three-part thesis statement and trying desperately to get 150, 15 year-old, high-schoolers to pass, or at the very least just be quiet for an hour. Mostly just be quiet.