Friday evening, and my mind is dancing around in circles

It seems to want to be awake and asleep at the same time. Altogether not so helpful. So if this post is a random smattering of stuff...that's apparently all my mind could focus on at the time.



Funny cartoons my brother thought I needed to have as a teacher:

All from http://www.marriedtothesea.com. I haven't quite decided if I want to show the "Got to get paid" one to my class or not...I haven't sussed out if there are any real Shakespeare groupies there yet.

I'm actually fairly excited about planning my unit for Of Mice and Men at this point. I like the whole theme of the American Dream vs. the American reality. And teenagers are always concerned with fairness and justice and who's to blame, so they could get into that. Of course, the actual process of doing it in three weeks may cut that short real soon.

Getting nervous about the Education Career Fair on Wednesday... Do I really want to stay here and teach or go home? Or go somewhere else? What kind of place do I really want to teach in? Am I going to be one of those people who get offers right away? Interviews are so nervewracking.

Just finished reading: The Dark Tower, by Stephen King. It didn't end the way I thought it would...and not the way most people would want it to end, I imagine. Yet I can't say that it was wrong, or that I feel cheated. I don't think I could say that it was right, because it feels unfair...but maybe that's the point. Trust King to put an ending on this that would probably keep me from rereading the series.

Also recently read: The Adventures of Blue Avenger, by Norma Howe. I was supposed to be doing research into postmodern YA lit...I was supposed to just be glancing at the books to see if they really were...but somehow this one made me sit down and read it all the way through in probably 45 minutes. Not horrible, but still, not what I was supposed to be doing. A fun little story about David, a boy struggling with the age old debate between determinism and free will,who decides to change his name to Blue Avenger--the comic hero he'd been drawing. Subsequently, he saves the principal from a killer bee attack, invents the perfect lemon merangue pie recipe (no weeping, guaranteed!), and finds a friend with the same question burning in her mind in Omaha Nebraska Brown. This book rambles through stories, memories, and random facts without a clear sense of where it's going, yet somehow I think it all seemed to fit.

Total books read in January: 8