dizzy with busy!!!

Today was hectic! I sat down for a whopping five minutes. During my "planning period", we met with a parent and student for an hour. The student cried most of the time. It was odd. It will be successful if the Grandma follows through and gets the boy back into counseling. Our computers were down 1:30-6pm; we were alerted to the fact at noon. Super. A Social Studies curriculum specialist came by at lunch and sat in the first five minutes of class. We scheduled to meet on a work day. I've turned her down before. I think people in the county office forget how crazy busy we are. We don't have hours at a desk to ponder; we're on the move dealing with twenty different things.

I came home to a UPS package! I love friends! It was a package full of African goodies and an awesome Iowa Crew jacket. Divine Coincidence: curriculum specialist and goody package arrived same day after they were in the works for months? Of course. I got Ethiopian and Zambian money, a craft and lots of different teas. I'm so pumped for my kiddos! They'll know I'm not full of crap when I tell them all my friends' stories. And, hopefully it'll make all the "economy talk" more real to them.

I went to a class on Deuteronomy tonight. God help the poor teacher; I was in rare form. The teacher said that "It looks like God changed his mind, but he really didn't" regarding Deut 9. I raised my hand and asked, "If he wasn't changing his mind, then what exactly was He doing?" He waxed philosophical. I told him that his God sounded like a Greco-Roman ideal than the God of the Bible. I think my fiestiness encouraged some other people. We talked about God having emotion and being in relationship with us. Afterwards he said he "welcomed discussion." But, the class was thought-provoking and stoked a desire in me to read Deuternomy, which by my standards is a successful class.

I stopped at Auto Zone and got this poor dude to check all the fluids and my battery in my car for me at my mom's nagging persistence. Everything was A-Ok in my 249k mile car. Go, Toyota! And, the guy was very pleasant as he checked it in the dark and ended buying zilch.

Now I gots to read!