Memorial Day

Fancy how this day was established to those who gave their lives for this here country. Yet I have decided to spend it by cleaning the scum that was forming under the rim of my toilet and that awkward space around the fake platinum faucet of my bathroom sink.

Think of all the bacteria that gave their lives today in my bathroom for that there...bacterial colony?

Regardless, today is the final installment of the three day weekend. In not to long I am to shuffle off to a BarbBQ / housewarming party, and tomorrow will be the first installment of the final three days of my first year of teaching. Yet, all I can think about right now is the massive collection of dust that hangs atop the blades of my bedroom ceiling fan. Maybe part of the colony lives there. I'll give them a Memorial day to remember.

I do beg your pardon (to the .73 people who might actually read this) about the delay in writing about nothing in particular, but maybe it does give an indication about the teacher side of the end of the school year. WAY MORE CRAZY THAN THE STUDENT SIDE. It is pretty hilarious though how this past Thursday I had my students go all out for their science fair project, seeing them stress out, write the longest reports (well, any actual document) of their entire lives, create these elaborate powerPoints, poster boards, projects and even videos, and I just sat there and mused over some ASU work and other things to catch up on. Well, at least when I was a student it wasn't all too bad, I just like to make sure that my students are going to catch a break come the end of the year. Builds character for a 7th grader, or something like that.

My bird feeder is doing FANTASTIC, though there is now little white spots all over my patio.

As of now it looks like I will be shifting from 7th grade science and language arts to 7th and 8th grade science, as I will be the science teacher at my school next year. To complement, I am hoping on an ASU fellowship this year that will allow me to focus on creating curriculum for sustainable systems, which would be sawheet, though this is so far PLAN D for the summer as of yet, and don't rest all my hopes on getting it. I did splurge some $400 on camping gear to go back backing in parks across the country, which was actually plan C. Any thoughts for a plan E? Let's just make one up for Z while we're at it. I do ultimatly want to go to Antartica.

Well, I think I am going to go develop an underwater camera now. I took some pictars at Discovery Cove in Orlando a little less than a month ago, where I SWAM WITH DOLPHINS. Touristy to the max, but I had to spend my tax rebate check somehow.