last day of summer school

I can only feel relief after three very long weeks at summer school. I now have exactly 46 days off. Woohoo! In those 46 days, I plan on creating good eating habits, exercising, reading lots of books, taking long walks in my neighborhood, playing with my cats, watching lots of movies, and doing a whole lot of NOTHING.
I got gifts from students - two in two days. That's right. Some expensive chocolates from a student that I think was concerned he was going to fail and from two of my newspaper editors. They brought me breakfast and a diet coke from Chick-Fil-A, a beautiful frame with a picture of them and a ginormous coffe mug and some super-sweet cards. My students definitely know of my coffee obsession! Every single time I feel burned out from teaching, something like that happens. It's not the gifts. It's that they know me because I interact with them on a daily basis.
Some observations from this week:

• Doesn't Jennifer Wilbanks (the runaway bride) suck big time? She came across on the interview with Katie Couric as stereotypically southern (and in a really bad way), naive, fake, dumb and a big 'ole liar. Visit this website: suejennifer.com. It's from one of our local djs at Q100 in Atlanta. Jeff wants to make sure that those damn fools can't profit from this whole event. She owes the city of Duluth (where I teach) $60,000 and only paid back $13,000 and this girl has money. After all, they were having 28 bridesmaids/groomsmen in their 600+ wedding. They're not hurting for money.
  
• Started watching "Team America" with Easton last night until we both got really tired. Damn hilarious! Can't wait to watch the rest of it.
• Discovered my cats both have fleas. Ugh. Esp. since I won't be buying Advantage until tomorrow. Ramsey sleeps in bed with us. Must not think about that right now or will start itching profusely.
  
• Made a budget spreadsheet to keep Easton and I on track financially. I love making Excel spreadsheets. Am I a dork or what?
• Getting my IT tech at work to install Dreamweaver on my laptop so that I can begin making my own website for the classroom. Had a cheesy one a few yrs. ago but let it go. Want to be very technologically oriented with students this year. Will be doing lots of Power Points.

That's all for now, folks. Like I said last time, leave a girl some comments, ya hear?