bullets…

• FINALLY received my Praxis III scores last night.  I passed.
• Survived Benchmark testing.  Still hate it, but at least I don’t have to worry about it for another year.
• At this point, the plan is for me to teach 7th Math and 8th Reading next year.  Have been thinking about teaching reading to 8th graders and thinking of books that I’d like to read with them.  Have been over the top excited since realizing I could buy a class set of Ender’s Game and read it with them!
• Spent $200 of the last of my mentoring money at Barnes and Noble on books for my classroom.  Finally got a copy of The Hunger Games which I’m half way through right now.  It’s pretty good.  It’s definitely got my attention.
• Currently teaching a chapter in Social Studies on the Rise of Christianity.  And I thought I was teaching Sunday school when we did the chapter on the Israelites….
• Signed up for ATT Uverse.  If everything comes out as planned, we won’t be paying any more money, but will have all the same services with faster internet + TV+DVR.  I’m certain that ATT will figure out some way to screw us over so that I have to spend another hour or two on the phone for less than satisfying results.
• Remembered a SciFi novel that I read around Jr. High.  It has little to nothing to do with the movies, but it’s called The Beastmaster by Andre Norton.  My friend, Tim was way into Native Americans and he turned me onto the book because the protagonist is a Native American/commando stationed on a newly colonized planet following the destruction of Terra and a war with an alien race.  I just got a copy of Beast Master’s Planet which is the first two books combined.  I’m way into The Hunger Games right now, but I’m anxious to revisit The Beast Master.
• It’s late.  The Hunger Games is calling and I have 5 Mondays left till summer break.