Little Surprises
The cat threw up in my bed, in a sort of hair-ballish kind of way. This was bound to happen sooner or later, since that is where he spends most (if not all) of his time, getting my pillows all cat-haired up. In fact, it happened in the past as well. This is the second time Salem has left a digestive present in my bed. I’m not sure if that is a sign of things to come or not. I’m sure I could assign some sort of meaning to it.
Yesterday was unusually hellish. I’ve been stressing out where I’m going to be working next year. I’ve put in an interview for one school, I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to stay at my current school (which I found out today, I do have a spot at my current school should I choose to stay there). And on top of all that someone swiped/expunged my lunch from the teacher workroom, so I had nothing to eat all day but wheat saltines and applesauce. Needless to say, I was rather snarky. At least today I had lunch.
I exaggerate on how bad today was. All things considered it was not so bad at all. My kids are totally digging the mock trial. When they have fun, I have fun (Except for the Greek feast, which almost killed me). And I had a really good debate in my other class. Good times. TAKS test is coming up (boo), so there’s that to look foward to.
I’ve also taken up the habit of reading while I work out on the treadmill. I can’t run on the treadmill like I do the elliptical, so I have to jack the incline up to super heights to get the same workout. Turns out that’s more fun anyway. And reading makes it go by so much faster. I was reading some of Mitzie’s old Glamor and Self magazines, but there’s really only so much of that a person can take. Now I’ve taken to catching up on some of my personal reading. In the course of a couple of weeks I’ve finished to novels and started a third, all three of which are great…
The first is called Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. FANTASTIC book. Very funny. If you are a holier-than-thou Bible thumper, you won’t like this book. In fact, you’ll only have to read the title to decide you don’t like it. Everyone else: you will think it is funny. Read it.
The second is The Joy Luck Club. You might have seen the movie to this. Very good. Girls will probably like it better than guys, since it has that mother/daughter motif. It did make me tear up at the end, he first book to ever do so.
The last book, and the one I am currently reading is Wicked. I forgot that I even had this book. I’m about 1/4 of the way in, but so far very, very enjoyable. I’m to the part in the book where Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of West) and Galinda are college roommates. Very clever. I like it so far.