Today was: Good

It's 10:18pm and it's the first opportunity I've had to sit down and write today. Right after school, I went to a Business Meeting [basically, all of the teachers sitting around talking about school business...], then Miles and I got stuff together for tomorrow [including getting ready for the kids to meet Reggie Rooster - his song is the WORST YET - you'll get a taste of it tomorrow, I promise...], and then we got on a bus, went to Best Buy so that we could both buy the new Travis CD [which I haven't even gotten to listen to yet], and then walked over to PetCo so that we could buy some fish for the class fishtank [we read a couple of books about fish last week, and are going on a field trip to the aquarium next Tuesday]. The fish are cute and I hope they survive awhile. The kids are going to LOVE them.

We didn't get back to school until 6pm, by which time the school was all locked up. Luckily, a woman who works at the school was outside and she called one of the late night custodians to come and let us in. I left Miles to acclimate the fish to the tank, ran home, ate a hardboiled egg, and then got picked up by a woman in my program and driven to a School Board meeting. I really wasn't looking forward to the meeting [my seminar professor is requiring us to go to one], but, I must say, if it wasn't a school night and I hadn't had a long day, I could've stayed until the end. The woman that I went with and I both agreed that we felt very "civic" to be there, and it further reinforced our notions that teaching is SO what we want to do with our lives. As it was, though, we only stuck around for an hour and left. While we were there, it was decided, after a couple of tearful testimonials, that a local high school gym be renamed after a beloved teacher that worked there for 25 years. It was quite touching.

Not much more to talk about - it's late, and I'm tired. Oh, Miles is going to be gone on Thursday and he asked me if I wanted to make that day another one of my "Solo Days". I told him that it seems like my solo days should be days when he's there, so I think I'm just going to do HALF the day on my own. We'll make the substitute work a little bit for her money this week...