The Honeymoon is over

So, as all good things must come to an end, so too has my honeymoon period with my grade 10 class. Today was hellish. I partially blame the moon (why oh why must it be full?).

several teachers agreed that today was the day classes started to act up and fall apart, relatively speaking as compared to the way they have been for the first 2 weeks.
So, Honeymoon stage is over. My darling Angels are gone, here come the fallen ones. I say that tongue in cheek, because really they aren't that bad, but I did take 3 phones (have I mentioned how much i hate cell phones at school?) and hand out a couple detentions and send someone to the office today. All in one class. UGH. Little Monsters. Although my other classes werent too bad.

Hubbys new job is progressing well, so thats good news!

And finally, my fav site I Can Has Cheezburger (see links on the right hand side) has added a new section - LolCelebs, or ROFL Razzi.
And seeing as I have NO love for celeb drama and bs, I quite enjoy this site.

So I leave you with this one that made my night...

Why I like Mac... Just another Reason...

Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting..

I love this pic because it reminds me of my Kona! She jumps at toy mice just like this and fetches! She will actually play fetch for hours, and its normally when I am busy and dont have time to play that she will pester me for a while to play.... or late at night when its time for bed.

Tonight is a full moon, and my kids were pretty stir crazy, especially my grade 10 boys, man, they say the moon is feminine and affects the tides, blah blah, womanly things. I think its just as bad if not worse for the teenage boys.

I'm going to have to one day chart the behaviors of students according to the moon phases, because I swear they have a profound affect on teenage behavior and hormones. I'm not the only one on this theory, Daisy also feels that the moon affects her daycare kids, and generally the wild times with both her kids and mine line up ever so precisely.

Free Puppies!

This is totally true...



And whoever made this sign is brilliant. I would love to see this done at a local mall...


That's it for me. I'm done playing with my new toy. Good Night!

Stranger things have happened?

The post below is one that I started around 1:30 this afternoon. It was the 2nd attempt at making a post. The post you are reading is actually my 3rd attempt at posting today. Why you ask? Well, let me tell you a story...

I began a post about the weekend, and then my computer shut down. All by itself, it just shut down. How? Well, when we tried rebooting it there were some weird musical sounds and it said the processor was having a "thermal event". What is that you ask? Well, after consulting the techie hubby, we realized it was probably due to a mass of cat fur that tends to fly around the house (having 2 fuzzballs) and so we opened the computer up and sure enough, there was some cat fur in the fan and in the case. So, we pulled out the can of air and sprayed the fan, pulled out the fuzz, and cooled the processor. Then I restarted the computer, which worked great, and then began once again typing my blog. The post immediately below this one is said post from about 1:45 or so...

As I was working on this post, I was thinking and talking about Flexibility (and now dear reader, go read said post below this post in order to get the full irony of what is about to happen).

Go on... I will wait...



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Ok, now that you have read the post BELOW this one, I will continue...

I was looking for a fun clip to rant about and post and I found a delicious clip on youtube about Chocolate Coffee Marinade for Steaks... Talk about greatness, combining 3 of my favorite foods into one, and grilling it over a BBQ. Fabulous.



Just as I was thinking about "flexibility" and my classes upcoming for the week, and the yumminess of said Chocolate Coffee Steak, my computer once again experienced a "thermal event".
And died.
Totally.
Ka Put.

And so, the hubby and I had to become FLEXIBLE. I mean, what is a teacher these days without a computer of her own to work on? I plan, I email, I IM, I draw up lesson plans and worksheets and activities and search for resources and ... the list goes on and on. So here's where the flexibility comes in. I have long been drooling over a Mac Air. Like so.



For me its a perfect fit. Its small and sexy. I have had the big clunky laptops, and while they are totally functional I eventually get sick of lugging a huge bag around on top of whatever else I have for school with the laptop and various accessories etc. The smaller, the better for me. As for the performance, I'm not a heavy user in terms of high performance graphics (if I was ever to pick up a game seriously again I'd definately go with a desktop to game, not laptop, so thats not an issue) and what I really need it for is for work, and multimedia. I love my iTunes and my photos and my iPod, and I like to surf for internet videos (youtube etc), but otherwise I'm a pretty basic user. Word processing, email, web (blogging, reading, researching), and the odd flash game that catches my fancy, but otherwise thats it.
Pretty simple eh? So the Air appealed to me ever since I saw it on TV.
The Air doesnt have a DVD player, but honestly I can't remember the last time I ran a DVD on my computer. I don't burn disks as I live on my USB key for work. If I'm taking a bunch of pictures to Walmart to print, I have a flash card and a USB that are quicker to access and bigger than a CD and frankly I don't print enough pictures to warrant a DVD!
We have an external USB DVD burner that hubby carries place to place when needed so I have that at my disposal if I ever needed said burner. Combined, we have several external harddrives for backup and music sharing, so disk space isn't an issue.

I drooled over the Air when I saw it advertised, and I'm drooling over it sitting on my desk.
My small functional and sleek laptop is perfect for me. Plus, if I havent mentioned this already, its pretty damn sexy. You gotta see this thing in person to appreciate how sexy it really is. Plus the keys glow! And the mouse is wireless and doesnt need a big usb thing to communicate with. (gotta love Bluetooth!)

Fortunately, Hubby thinks he can recover the data from my Harddrive so I wont lose all my files from the beast. It was so old, I think its time to put it to a peaceful death. Rest in peace old desktop, I knew thee well.

Bring on a breath of fresh Air.

Week 3

Well, Here we are at the start of week 3 of school. Also the start of the 3rd week of my blogging relatively regularly... Yes I say relatively, because I realize it's been 4 days since the last post, but all I have to say in my defense is that its been a busy week!

This week begins the 2nd of the 5 day weeks. Next week is a 4 day week *YAY* due to a PA day on the Friday, and then there's 2 - 5 day weeks again followed by another 4 day week, which takes us to the week after Thanksgiving. Thinking of it that way makes it seem far away, but really it isn't.
Ah yes, this is the way a teacher thinks, in terms of how many days in the week, so that thinking of week long lesson plans is made easier. You just start thinking in multiples of 4 or 5, depending on the week, and then all your planning gets thwarted by the odd assembly or thing that comes up and you have to re-shift your plans. Flexibility is KEY.

Kitteh!

I'm tired and not much to say at this point. I'll post more tomorrow since I didnt get home until 10:30 at night.

So I leave you with these...


this one is in Honour of DaemonQ's Blog



TEEHEE!




I swear my cat thinks this all the time...