about time

so today i was interviewed by the school tv for a special they're running on teachers who blog. so i suppose i should, you know, actually do some of that.

new trimester has started and i'm back to teaching sophomores, with one final class of seniors. i feel bad for my sophomores who took their summer reading test last week and are now being subjected to four days of practice ohio graduation tests. they are going to hate me by the time the week is over. but there's no way around it. though i'm not sure it's going to get much better for them this trimester. i'll be interested to see how the class goes with the new way of doing things. i'm going to have to find some ways to keep them - and me - from burning out.

so much to catch up on...guess i should explain the last post. the one about the beautiful girl. you probably should begin looking for signs of the apocalypse because the rumours are true: i am actually dating someone. i know, i can't believe it either. completely unexpected. probably won't be too many details here - i've never been good at sharing this kind of stuff. but she really is quite amazing. lovely. intelligent. surprising. and, unfortunately, far, far away. God's got a great sense of humour. so much for my wanting to get away from long distance relationships. been hard being this far apart, but we're trying to make it work. i got to spend thanksgiving with her, which was wonderful. nothing like nearly twelve hours in car.

(funny moment: we got stuck for over an hour in an accident on I-70 - ok, that's not so funny - but i turned off the car so i didn't waste gas. only... i forgot to turn off my lights. so my battery died. luckily, i figured it out before traffic started to move again, so i asked the over-sized pickup next to me if he could give me a jump and got her restarted before lifeflight flew away)

advent starts this coming sunday. hard to believe it's already here. not sure if anything special is going on or not. i hope so. we started meeting in st. e's again during st. e's, so it will always hold a special place in my heart. really is one of my favourite times of the church year.

ok, so the new coupland book arrived at my house today - only, it needed proof of delivery, so i have to go and try to pick it up at the post office tomorrow. grrr. hopefully it was worth the wait - i ordered the special box set from amazon.ca. was a little worried with all the fluctuations with the loonie and the dollar, but i still think it ended up cheaper ordering it from there - 40.03 canadian as opposed to the 60 dollars at amazon. com. good week for it to arrive, while i'm giving the practice OGT. will give me something to keep me occupied. that and the student teacher i have right now.

ok, time for sleep. hopefully i'll be able to get back into the swing of things here now that my end of the trimester grading hell is over. later.

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