if only it were so easy

If there is something to desire,
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.

– Vera Pavlova

an iPad for every teacher

Say what you want about an iPad.  Sure, it’s a little bourgeois.  It’s a play thing for wealthy people with too much time on planes sporting a big honking Y chromosome.  Whatever. I decided to get me one of these bad boys because it a light, portable, and pretty useful device.

Oh who am I kidding.  Dr. Icepick left it in my car, and I babysat for a few hours.  I fell in love.  I decided I really needed to have one.  The thing is, when you get such an extravagant object, there is a need to justify it as useful.  You can’t just have things because you want them anymore.  So for all of you teachers toying with the idea, let me give you the justification.

In this next series of posts, I will be going over the tools that I have been using.  I have done some trial and error with different ones, so my mistake amounts to your solution.  Okee doke?

my students, part 1

Okay, so you guys know I have been teaching for a good couple of months.

For those who are just catching up, my students are a little nuts.

On the plus side, they say ridiculous things on a regular basis.

In an argument today with the bickering duo (names have been changed to protect the ridiculous):

Kee:  Your fat ass is going to rip its way out of those pants.

Cay:  Well if these pants rip, I’m going to sit on your face.

Kee:  Um…  That’s a little gay.

Far be it for me to take sides, but Cay, that is a lot gay.

a to do list for this blog

You know, I just can’t seem to get things done in a timely fashion.  Just to kick my bum into gear, I am going to write up the things that I have been knocking off of my 101 list, starting with these things:

• Learn to tango.
• Learn to make excellent risotto.
• Find a hat that looks good on me.
• Visit a friend who is far away.
• Eat a mangosteen.
• Grant a wish.
• Write my Senator.
• Write my Congressman.
• Find a rockin’ pair of glasses.
• Go a week without wearing make-up.
• Storm out of a room, dramatically.
• Get to 400 blog entries.
• Learn the Presidents, Vice Presidents, and a few bizarre facts about each.
• Have a conversation with a stranger.
• Spend an entire day in my pajamas.
• Read 5 books that I own, but haven’t read.
• Finish 5 books that I have started.
• Watch five movies that I pretend I’ve already seen.

While some aren’t, most of them are completed.  And bitches, I’ve got the photographic evidence to prove it!  That is, on some of them.  So by the end of next week, I will have completed my list of things on another list that I am to document.

Yeesh.