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1 Some fun.
2 So last night in good faith, I started in on the DN early, just to give myself some time to get other things done, and the darned thing starts in on changing fonts and enjoying nonsense.
3 Fonts started turning into little old men; ideas became cows with large milking mechanisms, and frogs decided to locate into every picture, no matter what.
4 Oh, yes, and there's LOTS more, but so much as to make a guy nod off in the midst of an early e'en.
5 That would be me.
6 I actually had reached a point in life where things started to catch up for me. Classes essentially were in line for the rest of the year, and the only thing that I was hopelessly behind in was the grading of papers.
7 Life was good.
8 Then the bottom fell out.
9 We had originally scheduled some district bubble-test for today, so that all I really needed to do was to figure out Monday, then enjoy a bit of breathing room.
10 Well, the school decided to have a huge faculty meeting today, which shortens all periods by ten minutes, thereby canceling the bubble-test, which needs a full hour. I can't tell you how important whatever that test is to the future of my students.
11 On a grand scale of 1-10, I would say it hovers around a .5 in terms of any sort of relevance, and probably to them it is more like a .001. It measures how well I hit standards, which is of course, the most important thing in the Creator of the Universe's concept of learning.
12 Anyway, it meant that whatever I had planned for this week was immediately deemed irrelevant and useless, which is how most of us feel most of the time anyway, not to be negative.
13 Fortunately, my students are still struggling with the projects I gave, so nobody really noticed that my entire plan for the end of the year went up in flames yesterday morning.
14 We're still going to do my annual tribute to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Taming of the Shrew, but somewhere in there, all of the rest of the planning crashed into a brick wall.
15 All in all, that is.
16 Ah, who cares?
17 I decided when I got home that the rest of the year, and possibly every year from now on would be split between things the school wants and my own needs.
18 I decided to devote every other night to school, and every other night to my own personal stuff.
19 I know.
20 How selfish.
21 Just decided that I need time for meself, and I really don't give a care about what anyone else has to say about it.
22 So Irish, don'tcha think?
23 I think everyone should do that. Fer cryin' out loud, we could all be gone in a whisper, and who'd really care anyway?
24 So I spent the night making a wonderful stroganoff, and loved every minute of ignoring all the demands that daily catch my interest, as well as my time and life.
25 I threw all of it over me shoulders and cooked a nice meal fer everyone.
26 I then hit the sofa and napped, which didn't do much for today's lessons, but certainly gave meself peace of mind.
27 Every now and agin you have to fight back against these murderin' fools.
28 Ya just has ta.
29 I did that last night.
30 Oh, I'll pay, down the road, I guarantee it.
31 Meanwhile, my daughters came in and we laughed, goofed off, and enjoyed a brief moment of fun.
32 Shem on us!
33 Ah, yes indeed.
34 Live life.
35 Love life.
36 Peace.
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