Wishes for a new year

"Be kind to yourself in the year ahead. 

Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It's too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand.

Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin.

Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them. 

Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love."   

                                                                                       New Year's wishes from Neil Gaiman

OK, maybe not so much with the meeting new people and hugging them. 
I'm more than fine with the rest.

Nu Year's Eva

Reason for the Season

Say hello to my little family in Union City, CA

The interwebs

Funniest thing I've read on the internet today:

bob gresham • 5 hours ago

come to think of it, I've never ever met an atheist at a funeral. 

I've also never been to a funeral where the dead person was going to hell.

Merry Little XMas

Happy Jewish Baby Birthday!

People Are Strange

While eating lunch in the Cafeteria today I jotted down a list of Types of teachers that I see walking around the school:

1. The Show-off
2. The Sick Puppy
3. The Whiner
4. The Zombie
5. The Know-it-all
6. The Clueless
7. The I-Don't-Give-a-Flying-Fig Veteran
8. The Smiler
9. The Boss Wanna-Be 
10. The Neat Freak
11. The Fashionista
12. The Robot
13. The Whisperer
14. The Ol' Yeller/ Screamer
15. The Sheep
16. The Debbie Downer
17. The Brown Noser
18. The Geekster
19. The Hipster
20. The Stalker
21. The Multi-tasker
22. The Sharp-Dresser
23. The Slob
24. The Roller Coaster
25. The BadAss
26. The Zen Master  

Of course you can be more than one single type of teacher. I am a hybrid of types number 19 & 26.  Maybe #25 too, but definitely not 20.  No, not a stalker at all!  Although one of my hobbies is observing and listening to people around me. I pay attention and watch them to see what they might do next when they think no one is looking.

Heathen's Greetings

I do not come to work at school on Saturdays because:

a) It's against my religion.
b) I'm allergic to nonsense.
c) I'm busy with reading homework.
d) I have to attend a Professional Learning Seminar in Maine.
e) I am going to Breakfast with Satan instead.
f) All of the above.
g) None of your business.