The Mo

I've been pretty low mo these days (low motivation). I'm going to try to perk it up a little. By perking it up I mean that rather than sitting around looking at web sites and eating chex mix, I'm going to sit on my couch and read a book and drink a bevvie.

Today was a snow day, but I had a work meeting scheduled and I actually went to it. After that I was pretty low mo, as I've already stated. I spent the afternoon just reading cheap news and, again, eating chex mix. Tonight I may spend some energy cutting out paper dolls. I recently invested in a large collection of paper doll books because I have a plan to sit in the kinder room with a basket of paper dolls and some writing instruments. Maybe some good stories will magically appear. It will probably be fun either way.

The Who

It's 10 to 6 right now, so I'm a little nervous about this Super Bowl game. I would prefer a much larger lead.

The Who did a nice job tho.

The Game

We had fun visitors here this weekend. Janet and Alice came and we spent yesterday sledding, lunching at the Hob Nob, and taking photos in Brown County State Park. We ended the evening with some Guitar Hero. I pulled my score up from 22% to 34%, so that's good. Still on easy level, but I know what to work on.

Now I'm watching the Colts. And feeling quite a lot of Colts PRIDE!

The Snow

Man o maneschewitz. Yesterday was a bad ass day. A few people were okay, but there were several horrid incidents of other people being rude. Then more people being rude. And then a bit later, even more rudeness, coupled with a tinge of aggression.

That old adage about how no one likes change? Never doubt its veracity.

I told Husbandman last night, "I'm going to move away and no one will know where I am. And when the compound calls and asks where I am, you won't know. You'll just tell them all that I moved away." Husbandman said, "You're not going anywhere. Give me 30 minutes in there with a baseball bat and we'll get this situation under control."

Today's a snow day, (Thank you GOD!) so maybe I can put this all behind me and go on to the next right thought, the next right action.

The Meeting

Day long special meeting today. I helped a group of teachers get ready for a presentation. The teachers did such a great job. I felt so proud and happy. This job has a lot of ups and downs to it. Today was an up. Way to shine, peeps!

Our compound is # 1!!!!

The Mails

I send a lot of emails and I get a lot of complaints about that. I wish people could understand that when 30 people need to know about a new schedule or a school wide plan, it would be super difficult to walk up to each person and talk to them directly. Email is a way to communicate efficiently and effectively. And it saves quite a bit of paper and precious time. This will seem shocking but one person today actually said to me, "I deleted all your emails this weekend so I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing today."

"Good luck," I replied, unsympathetically.

Don't delete my vital emails people. I have no patience for that.

The Game

I drove #1 son and two of his HighSchoolHomeys up to Indy last night to play the wild sport of lacrosse. Lacrosse is a confusing game. I very much enjoy watching it, but I usually have no idea what's happening. I sat next to a gal who was filming the game with her flip. The entire game. Her son watches his mom's films in order to perfect his game. This gal knew everything about lacrosse. As she filmed she explained things that were happening whenever she wasn't screaming directions to her son and my son and the other players. The game ended in a tie, 16 to 16. Her son was our rep in an over time scrimmage kind of thing. He got the ball early and started running towards the goal. She held up her flip, filming, but kept her face buried in the crook of her other arm. Her son ended up scoring, giving us a fantastic victory. She missed it, but she can watch it later.

The Education

An Education is an odd movie. Tonight I've been reading on the internets about the episode from Barber's memoir on which this movie's based. I had some ideas about the movie that ended up being incorrect. It's kind of an unpleasant story either way. But the acting was quite good. And if you want to see it you probably should.