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I came across THIS POST today from Natalie Hill, and ohhh it was good. Click thither; ye won't regret it.

ps. this little picture made me laugh out louuuud. 

Oh, adele. Oh, breakups. 

[What a joy to be ALIVE!!!!]

Early Leave

sometimes there are days
when you are so sick
that all indicators point you back to bed
but you think to yourself
"it'd be worse to plan a sub lesson than to just get up and go" --
to last those measly three and a half periods.
iron. woman.

totally doable.


and those are the days then
you might
find yourself
laying there on your school's cold linoleum floor (refreshing, really)
hallway
bathroom
feet up and down and up again.
hair everywhere. fuzzy eyes.


asking yourself, silently screaming to yourself:

WHAT do i DO with a classroom of 30 kids right now !!
how do i protect them from seeing their invincible teacher in this kryptonitic human state ??

...and how many people have walked here today and on a scale from 1to10
does this warrant another shower today?
(please, no. please.)



more rationally now:

and who should i call
if i can't drive the forty minutes home
and how do i get rid of the sadness that
i can't call who i would call
won't call who i would call
because i can't, and now ohdear myhead isfaintingalong withmy heart.


i forgot to eat
i forgot to take my multi-vitamin
i forgot everything but that which was worth forgetting


and
i guess sometimes
these are the glory days.

last year's sick-day poem HERE.

March Monday of Delight

Just a little jewel, a veritable gem, if you will, to start off your week right.
Dancedancedance.....

16 magical march moments

1. Make a homemade kite
2. Go to a party: dress up
3. read Jesus the Christ sixteen whole days in a row
4. poetry. compile a blend of sixteen poems that I love both personally written or that others wrote.
5. clean room: spring cleaning yo.
6. Bean Museum Live Show
7. do something i've never done before.
8. cook something new (and delicious, please)
9. get out of town! on an adventure of joy...
10. go to a concert
11. Hug someone that I love
12. Hug someone that I don't love (very much..or perhaps "yet"?)
13. create a blog for efy
14. save sixteen dollars to be spent on Morgan when she returns
15. laugh until i can't breathe very well, or until tears shake from my eyes
16. sit and think/meditate on all the blessings in my life for at least sixteen minutes

Bonus/Honourable Mentions: Exercise 16 times this merry month, finish the unfinished bulletin boards in my classroom, write SK, get a pie shake at Sammy's, hike a mountain top, hold a baby

another educational gem

 





 "Teachers are not tree huggers! Every time teachers give out homework, they kill trees. Although students always lose their homework, so I don't know why teachers give out homework, only to have it lost. Homework takes a long time for kids to do. We zone out and don't even care. So the next time teachers give out homework, think...'Should I kill another tree?'" 
-Kyrinn H., 7th grade

 sheesh..talk about knowing your audience! Hello, Granola Washington girl.
I do kill waaaay too many trees with all the copies and stuff, and stuff. And stuff. Sometimes it feels like i'm BURIED in papers. I wouldn't mind being buried underneath leafy trees, but processed trees?? No, thank you.

sooooo...I don't think I'll be giving out homework until I plant some new trees...ahh...

Winter 2012 Musique

What I've been Spinning January + February

1.) Only The Young - Brandon Flowers

2.) Bloom - The Paper Kites

3.) Runaway - Elle Lefant

4.) Fly - Nicki Minaj feat. Rhianna 

5.) Double Trouble - Jack and White

6.) Round and Round - Imagine Dragons

7.) Adele, just everything. Adele.

8.) Yellow (piano version) - Chris Martin

9.) I will always love you-Whitney Houston (spinning pre-death, btw..just sayin) 

10.) Ballad of the Metronome - Elle Lefant

11.) Demons - Imagine Dragons

12.) My Fault - Imagine Dragons

13.) Night after Night - Jack and White

14.) Wordsworth's Ridge - Sufjan Stevens

i love french people

Send it sistah ! from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

and people who live their life magically, just in general.