The summer of my content...

I'm trying to accomplish a literary reference to Shakespeare's "The winter of my discontent." This is the summer of my contentment. I haven't really done much of anything. I didn't take the pictures of my jewelry and put them on my etsy website. Why? It's too hot outside.

I've been staying up late and sleeping in until nine. Why? Because I can. Sometimes I don't even leave the house. Why? Because I don't have too. For the first time since I married and had children, I wasn't responsible and productive. I was unfocused and lazy, and it's been great.

The time is almost over. My baby comes back from college this week and the following week I go back to school so my summer's almost over. But what a summer it has been.

Why I'm Not Getting Anything Done This Summer

The reason that I'm not accomplishing anything this summer is FarmTown on Facebook. I'm a little bit addicted. I've been planting two crops a day in order to make coins to buy a house and pond.

Last night, I got the pond. Now I want a stone gate and a river.

It's better than real farming--no droughts, no hail storms, no fertilizer bills, no insect infestations.

In School Suspension

In School Suspension (ISS) is Christmas-come-early to beleagured teachers.  Students are assigned to ISS when they have been particularily naughty - like fights, death threats, porn etc.  Often, these same students are the ones that make a teacher's job, well, hell. 

This is the student that won't sit down, won't shut up, won't turn in any work, and probably won't go to the next grade without summer school.

Teachers get notification when students are assigned to ISS and teachers send seat work to be completed while the student serves his/her sentence in ISS.   These ISS notifications are often received with the same glee as a winning lottery ticket.   

Swine Flu Mania

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