Randoms:

still having lots of dreams. all so vivid but never sensical.

work-out update: the last time i went to step, was very, very sore 2 hours later. this past week, went to step and wasn't sore until 1.5 days later and much milder. yay!

teaching has got to be one of the worst professions in which to get strong cramps. gosh, nearly died - cannot leave the class by itself so i had to stay around. and while i can barely talk and stand and am nearly bent over clutching my tummy, 15 students all want to ask me questions about their project. this is with ~10 advil. sad.

a lesson never learned comes back to bite me: i don't think i ever really learned to estimate. doesn't seem like a very hard concept, i know, but for some reason, it's not intuitive to look at a crowd and know how many people are present. or to peer into a jar of jelly beans and know how many are inside. I guess i just didn't think it was a skill worth "practicing". well, a few months ago, i had my kids do flower dissections to look at all the reproductive parts of angiosperms. luckily, i got in contact with a florist who not only agreed to donate roses but also deliver them to the school! lo-and-behold, though, the roses were brought in a nice big plastic bag all bunched up together. i had to decide how many kids could be in each group - but to do that, i had to know how many flowers i had. ouch, ouch, ouch. could not estimate so counted one by one. thorns hurt. i should have known better - everything you need to know, you learn in kindergarten.

the sweetest little boy (from a special ed class that i've substituted for a couple of times) looked at me all shocked today when i was walking out of school in the afternoon. he asked me if i was going home. Jokingly, i replied, "Yes, teachers don't live at school, you know." and he frankly responded, "I didn't know that! i thought they did. they really don't?" i think i thought that at one time too.