I am a grading machine!

Turns out I wasn't exaggerating when I said I had an 8 inch stack of latework to grade. It was actually 13. And it is all but conquered! (Powerschool is down so I can't put it into the computer right now....)

Things I've done in the last 48 hours

In mildly chronological order:

Listened to a youth speaker talk on the Jonas Brothers (and chastity I think, but mostly just the Jonas Brothers)

Listened to her father give a talk on the Utah Utes football team (there is no gospel oriented 'and' here. It was really just on the Utes)

Traced my ancestry back to Clodius (Clodie) I who was born in around BC 10. Turns out I really am emperor for life!

Taught a 15 year old how to spell his own middle name (Dimitrius). When I showed him the correct spelling he said "Man I was way off! There's not even a ch in there!" Yup.

Walked out of my classroom door straight into a horse's derriere. There was literally a live horse in the hallway after school today, complete with both front end and backside.

Got my cute new rainboots in the mail and wore them around the house all evening. It turns out there's nothing like a little online shopping to make me feel better about living in Ely!

I think I just failed my performance review

For Reals. For starters, I stayed up too late last night making sure that everything was in perfect order for my second of three teaching evaluations this year. I even had my fourth period class all prepped to be awesome for the principal . . . not that they're not awesome everyday, just a little bit more ostentatiously awesome for the occasion. I met with the principal before school to go over today's plans so he would know what to expect, and he said he was coming to second period instead because he had to go to Vegas for a meeting. Okay. Fine. Second period are turds, but they'll be fine.

They were not fine. They followed zero directions, they totally tuned me out, and overall it was probably the least effective class period I have ever had. Rock on. Mixed in with the general student apathy were the part where the math department cancelled my computer lab reservation and didn't tell me so I showed up with my whole class to a full computer lab of students taking math tests, the part where the librarian told me I could get sued for bringing my class to the library when I found out the computer lab was full (?!?), and the part where I turned on our daily cnn.com news clip (which I had previewed and it was totally normal stuff about Israel and Hamas) to find a graphic content warning and the beginnings of a story about Hugh Heffner asking for a federal bailout for the porn industry. I mean really, it's hilarious enough that the porn industry thinks it deserves a bailout, but what are the odds of cnn.com accidentally switching my clip for it on the one day all semester that the principal is evaluating my performance?!?!? Thanks, universe!