Thank God it's Friday! Yes! I don't have much planned this weekend. I think that I'll see Courtney and Lesley tomorrow, but no conformation on that as of yet. Orchestra practice on Sunday. Otherwise, I'm resting all weekend. Here's why...

1. I had a kid give a teacher a loser-sign which he received a detetion with the principal.

2. The same kid stuck his tongue out at me and I called his mom. We discussed alternative disciplines for him. Ugh...

3. The pastor of my church resigned.

4. I met with a father who was wearing tappered jeans, a Guns & Roses T-shirt, with snake skin cowboy boots, and to top it off he had a mullet. He was really ticked about some of his sons grades. I think it was because of all the drinking he had been doing because he smelled like a bottle of beer. Ugh...

5. Parent Information Night... I three hour conference with half my classes parents in 95 degree heat. Not that fun or exciting.

6. At least three meeting with my principal because of the discipline in my class and other homework issues.

7. Grading, grading, and hum... more grading!

8. Can you tell I'm stressed... because I sure can't!

9. I miss the love of my life, David Andrew Pollock.

To all of you who have a life outside of school I envy you. I will be in school for the rest of my freaking life. I have to go... I have to write my plans now because there due to the principal at three, but I really need to vent and have a mental time out. Later friends.

School has been insane lately! I have tons of work to do. I'm especially overwhelmed with grading! Ugh... Although, I am finding that this year is going so much more smoothly then last. That is really a great joy for me. Today my class has really been enjoying the lesson I have prepared for them. Sometimes I just get these ideas that are fabulous, if I don't say so myself! Ha.... So that's work....

Davy came out to visit this past weekend. It was a bittersweet weekend for me. We tried to go apply picking, but there was an early frost this spring and there aren't any apples to pick in Illinois. Who knew? We did get to go to accouple of carnivals and out to dinner at this amazing Spanish Tapas place. Yum-O! (To put it in Rachel Ray's Words!) Lastly, we went to see "Skeleton Key" and practiced our golf swings! It was an incrediable weekend and I wish that it wouldn't have had to end. It's becoming progressively more difficult to be apart from David and each trip the distance seems to get a bit farther.

So that's an update from Chicago... My classroom is terribly hot! I think I'll go grade in air-conditioning for a while! Later!

The first day of school is offically over... Thank God! It went really well. I got almost everything planned done. As usual, their were a few kids who did not show up. What the heck? I mean the first days of school are the funniest! Why would you want to miss... It's the kids loss not mine, although I do feel bad that they miss the fun stuff. We played math games, did a continents puzzle, and read from one of my favorite childrens books "Frindle." It was a good day. Much better then my over emotional mind made it out to be. I'm such a dork...  

Anyway... I would just like to state that I miss my boyfriend desperately and I can't wait till Friday night when he gets here.

In closing... I'm leaving. I've been at this school far to much as of the past few days and I've really had enough. So..... later Robinson Elementary. I'm going to put my feet up. Yay!