Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Morning assembly, all the classes stand in straight lines and we salute the flag together, then we listen as the AP gives the morning announcements. He dismisses the students with the words, “If I don’t see you again today, enjoy your winter break, and I’ll see you next year.” Murmers [...]
Is it any wonder I want out of here? Actually, my original plan was only to leave Las Vegas, but this whole state is crazy! Just read this: Lawmaker Says Teachers Should Have Guns In Class 12-14-2006 7:31 AM (Carson City, NV) — If state Senator Bob Beers has his [...]
I am sitting in a straight-backed wooden chair, slumped over a side-table with my eyes closed. I can hear, down the hall behind curtain 6, a drunk yelling that he came to Vegas to gamble, not to sit in an emergency room and bleed to death. I also hear a [...]
This blog has been temporarily interrupted due to exhaustion. It will resume it’s regular fair (fare?) of silliness and nonsense after it’s perpetrator (proprietor?) has gotten some much needed sleep. Please, carry on without me. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz [...]
I am sitting in my classroom freezing. Once again there is no heat (second day in a row this time). My students are wrapped within their coats shivering, pencils clutched in sleeve-covered fingers. I just put a call in to the AP and told him we were all going home [...]