Whoo!

Well, we got through graduation and the party. Bam! Finals! Then we could finally look at Christmas.

Christmas was good. And when it ended, we still had almost two weeks left of break. I like this schedule. I've spent two half days on grading. One more and I'll be finished. We've seen 2 movies in the last 2 days and we're going to see another this afternoon. And I bought a guitar. I'll start lessons next week with our former guitar teacher/music dept. chair from school. If he can work with teenagers, I'll be cake.

Next week, I also get down to serious with my Professional Dossier, so I can submit during the February window. Level 2, here I come!

She Did It!

My step-daughter graduated from college last Friday. It's been a long, hard seven years since she dropped out of high school. Apartments, boyfriends, minimum wage jobs, it didn't look good. Then 5 1/2 years ago, she had her son & quickly realized she couldn't do much for either of them on $6.50 an hour & no diploma. Her adviser called her "amazing." She is. She has been.

Not to say it's been easy. Not for her, not for the rest of us. Like I said, it's been a long, hard seven years. And they ended on Friday. We threw her a party yesterday, all aunts & uncles & cousins & grandparents. My wife and I worked on it all weekend. We pulled it off. Then we had last night to rest.

Today, we start the last week of the semester. And we work on getting her into graduate school.

Rushing down the slope

I'm spending the rest of this week in computer labs while my classes work on their Final Projects. Next week they present, then we're done.

But before that...my daughter takes her last final Thursday evening and graduates from university Friday afternoon. We're throwing her a party on Sunday. Today, Christmas doesn't exist for us. It won't until Monday.

In the meantime, I've turned in copies of both my Final Projects to my asst principal, but I haven't turned in a weekly lesson plan in over a month. She knows, and I know, but she hasn't said anything. At this point, I'll start off next semester right.