The DN

1  At last.

2  Ah, the very beautiful Etta James. That song just played on the teevee. 

3  Where do I even begin?

4  Maybe with the NFL?

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6  Nah. Too creepy.

7  I'm reeling from an amazing weekend. 

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9   Cheshire moon. I'm reeling because I didn't think I could get done everything that needed to get done and I done done it!

10  Moving On, Part One: I can't believe I'm finally done upgrading school stuff.

11  This job becomes a grunt after a while.

12  Don't get me wrong. I LOVES me some teaching.

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14   But I haven't had a day off in two weeks. I'm completely exhausted. 

15   Anybody lookin'?

16   It's last night it occurred to me that today is September 22, and that Back-to-School Night is tomorrow night. 

17   I don't mind. 

18    In fact, I LOVE'S me some Back-to-School Night. 

19   It's just that I was WAY into grading LOTS of papers this weekend. . 

20   I knew the end of the grading period was Wednesday, so I put all my weekend power into that deadline. 

21   I lost track of time, which I don't usually do. For whatever reason I thought I had a little more time before Back-to-School Night. 

22   It seems so logical to the layperson.

23   Collide. I had almost forgotten BTSN. I was in a race to hit the grading deadline. 

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25   I forgot BTSN was tomorrow night even though I schlepped a bunch of magazine projects home to grade. 

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27   I give that specific assignment for a bazillion reasons, one of which is that they are always impressive at Back-to-School Night. 

28   This year a few of my students even made interactive digital magazines. WAY cool. 

29   So the project has been fun for a number of students. How do I know this? 

30   I asked. A lot of students felt it was a valuable lesson in writing, plus it became fun once it morphed into scrap booking.   

31   Anyway, if I could give an analogy it would be like the actor or actress who would look at me and say, "The Show opens this weekend???" And I would roll my eyes. 

32   My answer to myself on that one is, "No, the Show opens tomorrow night!"

33   I have one day to clean my room and set up over 125 magazines. 

34   There's only one way to do that: just go in and do it. 

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36   Deadlines.

37   Scary. 

38    Ah, it happens. 

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40   Ah, well. 

41   It is what it is. 

42   Sometimes we simply have no control. 

43   I certainly don't. 

44   I'm spinnin'.

45   Got the forgets once more. That's not senility forgets; that's multi-tasking forgets.There is little difference. 

46    Again: not altogether a bad thing. Sometimes getting the forgets is a nice defense mechanism. I keep telling myself that. 

47    I gottago. 

48    No, SERIOUSLY. 

49     I gottago. 

50     Monday.

51     I'm ready. 

52     I'm never ready for a Tuesday, but Mondays?

53     Right there. 

54    And magazines and my classroom?

55    I'll manage to rock it. I just needs must have Crystal Light and Nutella right before. 

56   The rest?

57    Cake. 

59    I gottago. 

60    Love you.

61    See you again.

62    Peace. 

~H~