Emperor Norton's name may yet span the bay

News that makes Adam happy...

Emperor Norton's name may yet span the bay / S.F. board endorses plan to rename Bay Bridge after 19th century eccentric

Movie news that makes me happy

Chow Yun-Fat has apparently been signed for the second and third installments of Pirates of the Caribbean.

I do love Chow Yun-Fat...

Hiola Everyone

Sorry for my lack of posting lately, but I am just emerging froam a fog of work, school, children and exhaustion. The semester from hell is over. Praise all that is right and just. Had it lasted two more weeks, I think I might be dead now. Here is the short list of what I have done this semester

Until November 1st, I worked my telecom job from 11 pm to 7 am Monday through Friday. This job is so mindless and dull that it was slowly sucking away my soul. For some reason, the overnight shift began to grate me a lot more than normal, probably because I knew the end was near. I averaged about 4 hours of sleep a night, which made me cranky and unresponsive.

Until last week, I took 15 hours of online courses towards my teaching certificate. I knew that if I got all 15 hours over with, I could student teach in the spring and be employable by August. I decided to take all the hours at once (against the advice of the college) because I did not think I could afford an extra semester with no paycheck. To make matters worse, for the first time in my life, I actually cared about my grades, which forced me to actually do the ridiculous busy work teachers assign because they have nothing better to do. In my prior life, I wouldn't have given these assignments a second glance and taken a C in the class, but now that I want to be a teacher, I felt I had to make the grade. And I promise, you, some of the assignments I did for these classes rank as some of the dumbest things I have been asked to do ever.

In addition to the school work, I also had to observe 40 hours of high school classes over the course of the semester, which is one of the main factors for my 4 hours a night sleep. I observed a friend of mine's class, and probably was more trouble than I was worth, showing up dead on my feet and grumpy. I owe her BIG time. The worst part of the observation was the 16 one page papers I had to write about various topics related to my observation. This was not for a class, and these papers are not graded, but they have to be complete or else I do not student teach.

Finally, I attempted to be a decent Father and Husband, and I am not very happy with how I did here. The kids have been complaining about Merideth and I's school and lot and how much they miss us. Luckily, we will get loads of family time starting tomorrow. Christmas should be fun, and school does not start up until Jan 13th.

Next semester, I will be student teaching and that is it. No work, no additional classes, just student teaching. I will be broke, but I will be sane.

Hope all is well, and I now look forward to posting more of the idiotic musings of which I am so fond.