It's Not Easy Being Green.

Dustin got this really great book that has quotes by and about Jim Henson. This one really spoke to me.

"Usually adolescence is a time when kids feel that the world is doing it to them, whether it's their parents doing it to them or their teachers doing it or their other friends doing it to them, and that they are the victim of all of this. Somewhere in here, you have to learn that you're not the victim, but instead you're the one that's doing it. That moment is sometimes a long slow realization or sometimes it's turning on a light switch. All of a sudden you realize that you are the person who has control of your life." -Jim

Boobie Zoo

This is one of my new favorite quotes from "How I Met Your Mother."

Robin: Bras suck. They're so confining and unnatural.
Lily: Yeah, they're like a boobie zoo.

Finished

Last night at about eleven o'clock, I uploaded my final research paper for my master's class. I am FINALLY done with this horrible class. All day I'll be singing,"I'm done with my class. I'm done with my class" to any Christmas tune I hear!

Working Woes

I had a pretty good week where I felt like my students were really learning. Then after school, right before the weekend was about to begin, my bi-polar, fun-sucking boss decided to have a meeting with some of the teachers that ruined my day. Immediately after the announcement of the meeting, I roll my eyes thinking, "Please, let me just have my weekend in peace." She proceeds to talk down to 9 teachers; 4 of which have more experience that she does. The whole stupid meeting was over our preferences in how we want to use laptops in our classroom. And when she asked our opinion, we were told we were wrong (I didn't know opinions could be wrong.) I wish she would just tell us what she wanted us to do and not asked us what we thought. Then our own opinions wouldn't have been belittled.

Now that I've vented, I'm going to have a wonderful school-free weekend (except for my own homework in my master's class, but that is a whole other vent.)