So.
I have 357 words so far. I've taken a third person omniscient perspective so far, which surprises me, but maybe after a day of teaching followed by students in my room at lunch, an evaluation post-observation conference, and students in my room after school, squeezing in 357 words isn't half bad before picking up the kids by 4:00. It was fun, anyway.
I'm completely exhausted by Halloween this year. (Photos... coming soon. I want to blog about each of our costumes a little.) Last year, working on National Boards, I bought both of the kids their costumes, and I didn't dress up, and neither did Rich. This year, we made all three costumes (Rich was in Phoenix). And then, Tuesday night after my two doctors' appointments and a book club meeting, the kids insisted we hadn't carved pumpkins AGH! So we did that on Tuesday. Then I finished costumes until 11:45.
Making the costumes together was so much fun, though, and they turned out awesome. Well, mine (Athena) and G's(Steamboat Willie) were awesome, L's (princess vampire) was fantastical... wild... out of control. A bit like Bertha Rochester from Jane Eyre, or at least how I imagine her to be. It did not turn out the right profile/ silhouette, but she did look pretty awesome walking down the street at night with yards of poorly-tailored tulle and organza streaming behind her.
Turns out our new neighborhood is a pretty sweet trick-or-treat spot compared to what I would have guessed.
Today I woke up with a sore throat, and then read Stephen King for three hours out loud to my juniors. and then the remainder went as above. I'm pooped.
Oh, and G needs a Civil War sailor uniform for his book report tomorrow. He has to speak from the perspective of the narrator in Avi's Iron Thunder, a character who, as a young teenager, sails and fights on the Monitor. Pretty cool... better get to it.
Onward.
I have 357 words so far. I've taken a third person omniscient perspective so far, which surprises me, but maybe after a day of teaching followed by students in my room at lunch, an evaluation post-observation conference, and students in my room after school, squeezing in 357 words isn't half bad before picking up the kids by 4:00. It was fun, anyway.
I'm completely exhausted by Halloween this year. (Photos... coming soon. I want to blog about each of our costumes a little.) Last year, working on National Boards, I bought both of the kids their costumes, and I didn't dress up, and neither did Rich. This year, we made all three costumes (Rich was in Phoenix). And then, Tuesday night after my two doctors' appointments and a book club meeting, the kids insisted we hadn't carved pumpkins AGH! So we did that on Tuesday. Then I finished costumes until 11:45.
Making the costumes together was so much fun, though, and they turned out awesome. Well, mine (Athena) and G's(Steamboat Willie) were awesome, L's (princess vampire) was fantastical... wild... out of control. A bit like Bertha Rochester from Jane Eyre, or at least how I imagine her to be. It did not turn out the right profile/ silhouette, but she did look pretty awesome walking down the street at night with yards of poorly-tailored tulle and organza streaming behind her.
Turns out our new neighborhood is a pretty sweet trick-or-treat spot compared to what I would have guessed.
Today I woke up with a sore throat, and then read Stephen King for three hours out loud to my juniors. and then the remainder went as above. I'm pooped.
Oh, and G needs a Civil War sailor uniform for his book report tomorrow. He has to speak from the perspective of the narrator in Avi's Iron Thunder, a character who, as a young teenager, sails and fights on the Monitor. Pretty cool... better get to it.
Onward.
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| I added this photo, obviously, later that evening... |
