I'm spinning.

So I've been losing myself in books lately.  All sorts of books, latest reads:

1. Don't Sweat The Small Stuff: And It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
2. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
3. Don't Sweat The Small Stuff at Work by Richard Carlson
4. Jemima J by Jane Green
5. Eat, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation  by Lynne Truss


This is basically because my life is a little boring.  Boring in the sense that I'm swamped by boring books for school---who wants to read hundreds of pages on Assessment? I am more intrigued by books on punctuation and grammar.  I know this is sad...or maybe not so sad considering my profession, but it bothered me when I couldn't offhand define a predicate nominative.  In case you too forgot, the predicate nominative is the noun following a linking verb that restates or stands for the subject.


  I should be doing my SED 577 assignment, but I'm procrastinating.  Procrastination will be the end of me.  I'm going to see Alice in Wonderland with my family at 4pm.  I was tempted to bail out and stay home pseudo working, but instead I have opted for throwing on a baseball cap, sweats and a hoodie so I can finish this assignment.  


  I am going to teach a lesson on "Hamlet" next week at Chaparral--I have these fears about teaching that everyone will be going wild and I'll have no control.  Mrs. Anderson said it is one of my repressed anxieties coming out in my dreams (she is very into psychoanalysis and literary theory).  


  This week I am working from 7:15 AM-2 PM everyday and then going to class from 4 PM- 10:30 PM.  I am taking advice from Richard Carlson and not complaining or thinking how busy/tired I am going to be.  Nobody wants to hear it.  I figure this will give me a glimpse into the summer when I work everyday from 7-3 and then go to class from 4-10:30 PM.  I wanted to write how exhausted I am going to be...but I will not give in, I will master Carlson's not stressing techniques!!!!