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4 september 2003
currently reading
the current issue of mother jones. this week, i'm getting a brief history of time to read. i read 20 pages at the bookstore one day, and now i'm hooked. must...read...
current listening
"All Things Considered". And Harry. He's fine, thanks.
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give me a tonsillectomy, or give me ice cream
When we last left our she-ro, she had just finished gargling tile cleaner and running sandpaper over her tonsils.
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. Double uuuuuuuugh. As in, I've got a substitute teacher coming in tomorrow. Ms. Holzer has left the building. My throat is shredded from mutant tonsillitis painfullus. When I yawn, I cough so hard my eyes nearly pop out. I can't swallow anything but ice cream, soup, and water. Today was my second doctor visit. I was previously resistant to the idea of staying home, but when she handed me the stern, "stay home, or else" this time, I barely blinked.
My students have a test tomorrow on subject-verb agreement. Today, they enjoyed (I hope) a Grammar Battle with team whiteboards, in which each team had to fix "broken" sentences and be the first to hold up winners. We went through about 30 sentences. They accumulated points for a free 100. Consolation 99s and 98s were also given to the top five. finishers. Everyone else got a 97. It was pretty fun, while I was there. I hope the relief teachers did an okay job with it.
Anyway, sub tomorrow. I hope that he/she is kind but firm, and that my students are kind and somewhat contained. I hope that everyone remembers their pens so that s/he doesn't need to take up any shoes. I mean, that's just too much to ask of a substitute, right? (Class procedure is, you forget your textbook or pen, Ms. Holzer is happy to loan you one. Just give her collateral in the form of your left shoe.) Because, you know, Ms. Holzer's not right.
Whatever.
And, really, the test isn't all that bad. It includes such sentences as, "You all that and a bag of Doritos" and "Don't be pick your nose in class. That so nasty."
Don't get too worked up over my unseemly test questions. They do plenty more respectable projects. But, come on...if you're going to tell someone to quit picking, do it right. Right?
See you in a couple of days. I'm going back to bed.
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