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Set up a website for the CHS Business Department.  Hopefully in the future our whole curriculum (or most of it at least) can be put on the web and so on…

My high school FBLA advisor inspired the Centralia FBLA chapter to trick-or-treat for canned good this evening.

It was a great success and if I had her number, which I might find and call her this weekend, I’d call Gay and let her know she inspired me to try trick-or-treating with my students like she did with her students for many years.

Thanks Gay!

Since it’s been almost 6 years since I’ve posted to this blog, here are some updates:

1.  I’ve got a new (used) vehicle.  A SWEET ‘07 Ford Escape (copper, or as Em likes to call it…rust colored).  I’ll post some pics up sometime.  Put a bike rack on top an a 7-inch touch screen DVD player head unit in it…so it better last me a while!

2.  I’m coaching cross country this coming school year.  Starting this past monday runners were supposed to be running on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 11am.  I was here today (Wednesday) at 11 and nobody left for a run.  Slackers.

3.  Just found out I was accepted into the University of Central Missouri’s (forever called CMSU by yours truly) Educational Technology program.
Classes started 2 days ago, and I officially go enrolled in a class today, so it’s time to get to work

I vividly remember an evening in high school when mom came home and I told her she had the wrong sleeping bag dry cleaned for me.

She said, "I just can’t do anything right can I?" with a quiver in her voice, went into her bedroom, shut the door and went to bed.

I believe I can understand how she felt.

Today was one of those days where I spent half of the day trying to figure out if it would be worth teaching another year.  Until school let out and I was able to vent a little bit to the other business teacher my answer was almost a loud "hell no, it’s not worth the shit you have to put up with from students and how little money you’re paid for it".

Today students were terrible, I got no break, and there was no network/internet connection in the Ag/Science Building.  Apparantly the head I.T. guy thinks a mouse chewed through the wires.  I highly doubt it….but there’s a good chance we won’t have any connection until after school is out…which means I have to figure out what to do for year end finals for six classes in the next day….everything I had planned means using a computer…which most likely will not be possible.

In the words of Sean Connery, suck it Trebek.

I’m ready for this first year of teaching to be over.

I don’t understand how, but it seems like I’ve got more stuff going on now than I did when I was coaching.

Overall, I’d say this year was a great success.  There’s tons to work on for next year, but I think I’m off to a good start.
I’ve also talked to a couple young ladies the past couple days about joining the cross country team next year and they just might do it!

On a different note, Grand Theft Auto IV rocks!

Having no break in a day is possibly the worst idea ever.

I’ve got much to grade, and no plan period today to do it.
For my plan period yesterday, I spend most of the time filling out an FV-4 (money for Vocational Education) trying to get a couple digital cameras, a couple video cameras, etc (including a digital rebel and a hi definition video camera).

When I wasn’t spending time researching prices for equipment I was also getting together FBLA materials for state, including a parent permission form and other stuff I can’t even think of right now.

In Entrepreneurship class [going on right now] I had the students research a section of the current chapter we’re on and develop a presentation that the other students will watch and takes notes from….instead of me taking the time to read the chapter and create the notes myself, which can take more than an hour depending on the topic/chapter.

Feeling a little slow today.   Didn’t get a whole lot of sleep last night, but at least it’s an “A” day today so I get a break here at school.

I’ve got a ton of grading to do…and I’m not looking forward to it.  It would be much easier if I didn’t have so many different subjects.  It’s hard to transition from grading Multimedia to Accounting, and then back to Advanced Computer Applications.

The Highway Patrol didn’t have any openings for a school bus driving test in time for FBLA State Contest so I’m going to wait until this summer to get certified.  Too bad, because I’m pretty sure I’d kick it’s butt.

Just now

leaving school

FBLA did

concession stand

very tired

bye…

At school on a Saturday….

I was thinking about coming in today instead of the usual Sunday trip and a student (actually a student’s mom) asked if they could work on some things today, so from 10am-2pm he is working in my room.

I got a bunch of grading done, no lesson plans, I tried but just couldn’t do it.  So those will have to get done at home tomorrow.

On tap for tonight:  going to see Leatherheads with Em, and then it’s xbox time