Winding Down

Papers stacked in piles

Overwhelmed with everything

I can't find my floor!

Canine Drinking Habits

In without knocking. 

Lapping from the porc'lain bowl.

Your food is downstairs.

I'm a bit perplexed that for the past three nights the dog has entered my room (always right around 10pm) helped himself to the water in the toilet, and left the room almost entirely without acknowledging me.  I hope he doesn't think he can get away with this forever!  

Aliens

Today we discuss:

UFO's and cropcircles.

E.T. can't phone home....

My debate class has selected "Aliens Exist" as their latest debate topic... I was hesitant to let them choose a "BS" topic, but then realized that 1. I ultimately don't care and 2. it's a great chance to work on research methods / credible source issues... I'm still waiting for overeager freshman boy to bring in his "legit alien book" which he claims will prove the existence of aliens... and this is why I love freshmen... *rolls eyes

That said, I wish I'd dropped the serious nature a long time ago; students are really into this topic, and I finally feel like I know what I'm doing... which is why we only have 5 weeks of school left... go figure.  

Fun Factoid

experts all agree

and science has proven that 

owls have no buttholes.

the last line is a true quote from a student in my speech class today.  It's hard not to laugh when stuff like this comes up!

Prom

expensive clothes and 

grinding abound.  the cops are

watching you closely.  

Hard to Handle...

This was on the news this evening: 

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7367195

I had a really difficult time watching it, and actually found myself in tears at the end in utter disbelief that children could be so insensitively cruel.  Having been around teenagers on a daily basis for a while now, I recognize that they often don't think before they speak or consider how someone else will hear what they say.  Furthermore, they see words like "gay" and "fag" as synonyms for "stupid" and "lame."  "Homo" is to 2009 what Loser was to 1999.  I continually strive to get students to see that they aren't saying what they mean - but this often falls on deaf ears.  

It's been a long week - and there's no rest until Sunday - lax all day tomorrow and potentially prom tomorrow night.  

And I'll get to see the movie earlier than you because I'll be in England!