Since Friday, I have:
-watched 3 eps of Once Upon a Time (S3) and A Ballerina's Tale on Netflix
-washed 2 loads of laundry (who knows when they will be put away)
-slept A LOT
-went to Target (I was bored at home yesterday)
-started a rewatch of The Autobiography of Jane Eyre when I could not fall asleep last night
-graded a few papers, and avoided many others
-answered and sent a few work-related emails
-coughed
-changed the water in my bettas' homes
-looked online at homes for sale, cringing at the decor of most of them

I keep trying to get papers graded and work done, but my attention span on that is about 30 seconds. Still, I need to get this done before tomorrow, and also before Once Upon a Time comes on tonight. So I've heard on tumblr, we're going to get some Rumbelle tonight. Keeping fingers crossed.

It's amazing how I can not be hungry all day, and when I finally eat dinner I'm famished. Well, I was famished, and 3 hours later I'm content.

The smart thing to do was to go to bed early, but the need for a period movie fix won over. So, I watched half of Jane Eyre disc 2. I would have finished it but email beckoned me. Whenever I watch that movie, I always plug lines from the book in various scenes. No idea how many times I've watched it but I still get emotional. Fantastic book, fantastic movie.

holbytla will be proud - I'm thinking of buying M. Ward's album, "Hold Time."

Ok, really going soon. Oooooh, email!

I managed to grade one set of reading tests, which my students did surprisingly well on. This could be because it was a fiction story and not the non-fiction we've had for a while. What scares me a little is that they read the story over 3 days with the sub. I left directions to read and ask a lot of comprehension questions, and it took forever for them to read it. They also did Venn diagrams comparing the 2 main characters. With me they partner read the story then we did a story map. What made the difference this time on their tests? I guess I'll never know.

I still have a ton of grading to do but my head/sinuses are not cooperating. So, I think I'll pop another movie in (watched parts of N&S earlier) and try to not think about the pressure in my forehead.

P&P or Jane Eyre, I can't decide.

I hate being sick.

must post to keep up daily thing. think i'm fighting a stomach bug. my left arm is half useless. typing one handed atm. more details later. had to cut movie night short because felt ill. i hope it's eating too much dinner and not what's going around work.

Yesterday morning consisted of sleeping in, going to get sustinence at Starbucks (yum tuna wrap, I was craving it), getting gas and fighting boredom on the internet. Towards the afternoon people started calling me, which wasn't good for my voice but it seemed to be getting better. Since I hadn't seen Luis in a while, we decided to meet for coffee, picking a new place we hadn't been to yet. Vonn ended up joining us. Well, I was on my way there when Luis calls and says the place is out of business. I didn't believe him, since it had just opened within the last year, and nothing on their website said it had closed. However, Vonn and Luis know the signs of a vacant coffee shop from experience, so I finally believed them. After some hemming and hawing we went to Chili's.

After Chili's, Luis and I went to Target. I should have gone home but I was bored. Spent a bunch of money but it was either stuff I needed (new paper shredder, shoes for work) or things I'd been meaning to get (Little Mermaid on dvd).

I turned on the tv just in time to watch Michael Phelps win gold medal #7. After a while I just needed to sleep. This morning I woke up around 7, then snoozed and had dreams about school work and not being able to get out of bed. Right now I have no voice, hopefully the DayQuil helps. I think I also have pink eye, but I don't want to go to an urgent care for just that. I'll give it one more day with the eyewash. This cold is not fun. I need to be better soon, but I also need to get some work done today. Must call Susan and get the papers to grade from her. Problem is, I'm in no mood to grade.

I need coffee.

Yesterday I was off, and today was early release for staff development. Yay! Aaaaaaand I'm losing my voice. I don't get it. I usually get sick and then lose my voice, but this time the voice is going first. So, tomorrow will be minimal talking on my part, and my kids will have to really pay attention. Ha ha ha ha ha haha hahahahahahaha. No, usually when I can't talk my students have been good. I hope I don't actually start feeling sick.

11-12 hour days, ugh. Need to be more efficient after school.

This is me procrastinating :D
This me trying to work >_<
This is how my stomach is making me feel :P

My friend is coming over later to help me finish some grading and then we're gonna watch some chick flick, or maybe Happy Feet or something else animated. Depends on what she brings. End of the quarter/report card/conference time is not my favorite time of year, and the fact that my body is teasing me with illness doesn't help matters.

Ok, back to work now...

I am taking a day off. I'm a little disappointed about ending my streak of no days off since starting at my school, but I really need this. Today, I felt like crap, getting progressively worse as the day went on. Friday, I have to be observed and I hope to recuperate some before that. Also, I hope I have a voice, but even if I didn't, I'd still have to be observed. For some reason, all of us requiring second observations were told Tuesday they have to be done by Friday. Ok then, not even halfway through the year.

If it were not my friend subbing for me I may have forced myself to go in tomorrow. SHe can handle anything, and she can call me if absolutely necessary.

SO, I need to take some medicine and go to bed. I'm going to be so confused after a day off in the middle of the week.

Oh yeah, I hope I'm better so I can do dinner on my birthday Saturday.

Need to take some Advil, but when I tried to do that I got distracted. Ugh, achy.

Having an iTunes account is a test of willpower. I got an iTunes card so I could d/l CSI episodes since I don't have a VCR. $1.99, no commercials, not bad. Often on the radio I hear songs that I want to download, anything from classic rock (Eagles) to 80s/90s (Lenny Kravitz) to recent stuff (like that Gnarles Barkley song, Crazy). AOL radio has an all Dave Matthews channel, which I periodically check trying to hear my favorite song, Crush. In the past, it was one of my listen-to-on-repeat songs when I was depressed about guys/being single. Last weekend, I finally hear it, though I missed the beginning. So, I finally broke down and bought it, along with another song I love, Are You Gonna Be My Girl? by Jet. The Jet song I often search the radio for. If I hear that song in the car, I totally dance. It's so easy to buy through iTunes, which is why I bought the card instead of storing my credit card information online. That could be a disaster worse than my coffee addiction.