What the hell?

Friday friday.

So the self-prescribed cocktail of equate (the generic brand of nyquil) has been working wonders to let me sleep soundly at night. A big deal in the fact that I wake refreshed and before 4pm.

Last night was frenzied, yet satisfying. I put a show and dance on for the students who I presume feel like they're getting their money's worth. Never mind that I spoon fed what was already in the content. Forget if you will, that I've said almost everything already in the bulletin boards. But hey, they hung around for the show.

Please.

I did give them insight into their big project and led them on a store visit (which translates to their homework). Whatever. If I ever teach this again, I've done enough grunt work to have the course set on cruise control going forward. (Well, after the six weeks are up. We're mid-hump now.)

So this morning I rise to more horrifying and senseless deaths, this time in RI. The tragedies over TX and in Korea and Chicago (separate but somehow related - not counting Staten Island) had already saddened, as have the continuing reports out of Colombia. CNN and the like have comingled worlds so far apart in an almost seamless effort to bring pain and suffering to my living room. I watch transfixed and wait for 'breaking news'. It can't be healthy as New York magazine, titled "Anxiety" tells me. (Somehow their system has overlooked my non-renewal. Yay. Small win for moi.)

I had a point when I started. Right. Got it now. So I tune into my friend's blog to see how the folks in NJ are doing. Deciding that "r.i...p" wasn't quite the tone I was in the mood to read, I clicked on an associated blog,quinnmacdonald. (My techology superior acquaintences score brownie points for knowing things that mush my brain; e.g. scripts.) Anyway. From this click trail I find an anthrax attack could easily present itself.

Feh.

Need more tea.
Going to grade papers (after I call about the goody bag event).

posted by irene @ 2/21/2003 01:25:00 PM