6:39 AM

this is what time i woke up this morning. i realized i cannot hear my alarm ring when it is in my coat pocket in another room.

*sigh*

walked into my classroom at 7:15, just as the bell rang for first bell. not bad considering it's usually a 20-25 minute drive with no traffic. i'll let you do the math. at least i woke up in time to make it, though.

and then i find out that ohio once again royally screws everything during an election. they have now given hillary every reason to continue to tear the democratic party apart with her negative campaigning and grandstanding. more power to her. even though she still trails in delegate count, she now feels the vote in ohio shows that everyone in the country wants her to be president. so like some demonic groundhog, ohio has said there will be three more long months of distortions and attacks from both sides so by the time the general election comes, all mccain will have to do is point to the negativity of the past six months and say, "see, i'm better than that." and so the democrats will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again.

my take: if hillary gets the nomination, i will "throw away" my vote and give it to nader. because really, both mccain and clinton will do little to fix what's wrong with our political system. not that i'm convinced obama could do any better, but at least he's pointed in that direction. the other two are the same old same old. of course, that might change if she takes obama as her vice president, but her campaign has left such a horrible taste in my mouth, it will be hard to vote for her. and no, it's not because i'm sexist, thankyouverymuch. it's not because she's female - it's because she's what i hate about politics.

you would think since i hate politics so much i would not talk about them, especially since most of the time i can't talk about them logically. but i get the feeling something else will fly in my craw and i'll be back. i promise, though, not to let it take over the blog. that i know i can do.

grades are done. wasn't too bad. now off to get all my ducks in a row for this trimester (funny aside: i tried to use this phrase last week and said "get all my eggs in a row." guess it's better than "all my ducks in one basket." God bless you malapropisms).

Now playing: Slaid Cleaves - Key Chain