My last Sunday...

... this is the last Sunday I will have where I am not required to do anything for school, probably until xmas break, if not until next summer.

and what am i doing with my time?

slept 'till noon, made a late pancake breakfast, waiting for food to settle before hitting the gym. i straightened up my room a bit, hung up some school clothes, and in general have just been lazing about. tomorrow is labor day, so i have one more day to prepare for class on tuesday, but at this point, i am feeling a bit like i know so little about what this week will look like that there isn't much i can do at this point but try to relax and take a few deep breaths.

i plan on prepping materials for next week this week, so i am ahead of the game.
i do have to create a curriculum for my new elective that i was assigned to teach, a three-day-a-week school skills class for 10th graders. we're not giving homework in this class, so i believe that i'm going to focus on literacy and real-world topics in science. i am going to start them off with an excerpt from "the world without us" and go from there. i'd like for us to read "fast food nation" as a class and discuss the reading group topics suggested by the publisher. these kids have a very intimate relationship with fast food and i would like for our class to examine that a little deeper.

would also like to read "stiff" by mary roach, because kids like that gross stuff and its easy to read, and science-y. we'll see how that goes.

on another note:
sarah palin? really?
insulting.
its as if mccain thinks that any woman will do. this woman is the harriet miers of the 2008 election-- totally unqualified and wet behind the ears. mccain just took the reasoning out of any "obama isn't experienced enough" argument because your VP pick is supposed to be someone you believe to be ready to lead as president should you keel over and die, which is more likely to happen to mccain in the next four years than anyone else.

what an f-ing joke.