if it weren't for hard luck . . .

Yay!

• My students/hundreds of hugs every week;
• My family;
• My friends;
• Mom having my enormous diploma framed;
• PAID on Tuesday (!!!!);
• Turning 25 = Straight Edge for 9 years;
• Gettin' mah grill fixed;
• Gettin' tattooed (?);
• Gettin' a pup;
• Losing weight;
• All the movies (coming) out;
• Champ touring with Have Heart/seeing Europe;
• Halloween in a month!!!!

Boo.

• Falling down the stairs (again) this morning;
• Irreparable damage being done to the right member of my most favorite pair of flips;
• http://www.scrabulous.com/ disappearing off the face of the internet;
• Living 20+ minutes away from everyone I love;
• My students' nutcase parents;
• Working at Love T. Nolan Germ Factory;
• FCSS suddenly cancelling Blue Cross/being forced to find a new health insurance provider ASAP;
• Bills of every sort;
• (I really don't even need to say it, but) Gas;
• My mom trying to set me up with her dentist's son . . . her dentist's accountant son;
• Turning 25;
• Best friend gone for three months/my birthday;
• 3,600 grades due in less than three weeks.

I am furiously writing lesson plans and assessments. I will be stuck at home grading for the next few weeks; come hang out with me. You can help me write mean notes to parents and I will make you din-din.

EDIT:

I watched the debates Friday and I have to admit I was not impressed. The only time I clapped was during Obama's explanation that a federal spending freeze is not, in fact, a good idea because there are too many smaller/fledgling but important government programs with limited funding now--like Early Childhood Education--that would be seriously negatively impacted by a cut in spending, especially one that significant.

Of course, the first debate was focused on foreign policy--although, domestic issues were brought up repeatedly. I'm looking forward to the remaining debates. Definitely interested to see what both candidates have to say about education reform--NCLB, in particular.

And you better believe I'll be watching the Vice Presidential debate this week. But almost strictly for its entertainment value; that mother fucker is a trainwreck waiting to happen. It totally has that so-horrible-but-can't-look-away-phenomenon written all over it. Hahaha. Weeee!

Back to work!