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how can it be that at the beginning of the week i thought the weekend would never come and now that it's here, i have no idea what happened to the week. i turned around and *poof* it was gone.

pleasantly busy - worked the auditorium monday night, covering for everyone so they could go to jack's mom's visitation. tuesday we painted emily ogle's room a lovely shade of pepto bismol pink for house church (she chose it, not us). last night, sarah martin called and invited me to pay-what-you-can night at footlighter's for seussical, so i skipped buying groceries for another night and went down. show was good, though the characters needed to be bigger and the lighting sucked. sarah was, as always, a high point. i even got invited up on stage at the beginning of act two - i thought sarah has set me up, but found out later it had just been coincidence. an evening well spent. good to see sarah and patrick again. and good to see some more theatre, especially at the price.

spent time in class today talking about america's preoccupation with sex and how it shapes how we view someone like chris mccandless who chose to be celibate. always enlightening to hear my student's opinions. my third bell was quite vocal - we ended up running out of time and having to continue the discussion tomorrow. my fifth bell heard me mention sex and i pretty much lost them to adolescent humor. why must my fifth bell always be the most challenging?

so there's a discussion on the dadl-ot, basically calling for the destruction of public schools, that we need to tear it down and start from scratch. i understand why they believe it, but it's also gets my hackles up to hear them say things like "Also public school do a lousy job of teaching how to think, they prefer teaching what to think" and "They dont teach critical thinking anymore. They teach all the other feel good crap. They dont have the foundation on fundamentals." nothing like generalizations to make your point. look, i know there are serious problems in the way we do education in this country and we ought to be looking at other options and possibilities, but i'm pretty sure dismantling they system will create far more chaos. but then i have a vested interest in seeing schools continue. just saddens me that the perception is so different from what i've experienced as a teacher. granted, mason's a bit unique, but i refuse to believe public education is irredeemable.

i'll put my soap box away now.

new bsg tomorrow night. was going to tape the episodes i missed from last year, but rachel has 2.5, so i think i'll just tape the premiere and watch it when i catch up.

my eharmony adventure continues....some new matches, trying to get to open communication with one that looks very promising. spent quite a bit of time answering her second questions - wanted to make sure i got them just right. now we wait to see how she answers mine. replied to susie and invited her to dinner next weekend - i'll be up in the columbus area for a mvnwhatever drama meeting, so thought that might be a good chance to actually meet. we'll see what she thinks.

ok, time to try to go to sleep. still haven't been able to drop off before midnight at all this week. but at least i'm not waking up at 3-4 AM anymore. maybe i'll get on a normal sleep schedule sometime before i take the big sleep. keeping my fingers crossed.
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