Friday, Another 15 Hour Day. Yahoo!

The alarm seemed to go off at 6:50 a.m., although it may have actually been set for 6:15 a.m. I just don't remember the snooze going off.

I had a meeting at 7:40 a.m. It takes 25 minutes to get to school. You do the math. I was rushing to get out the door on time.

I had my meeting and got back to the classroom with just enough time to turn on and log in all of the computers before a hoard of students hungering for knowledge came streaming in the door.

We worked for about 2/3s of the class period, as we usually do on Fridays. Then, we take the rest of the class off (about 30 minutes or so) to play games. It was fun, for the most part. I still have trouble with some of the kids, even in my best classes, getting squirrelly. 15 and 16 year old young men sometimes just act immature. Not much I appear to be able to do about it.

After my three morning classes, I had a quick lunch of chimichangas, one of the very best offerings at our school cafeteria. Then, I headed out to the local park adjacent to the school grounds for lunch duty. My job is to keep an eye on the kids and make sure nothing untoward goes on. Then I wave everyone in for the last period class at the appropriate time.

I had planning period in the last block of the day, followed by my personal favorite, Homeroom. Then, I had a meeting with a struggling kid after school, followed by a meeting with the kids of the Tech II class to discuss options for our electric car project and some fund raising/sponsorship ideas. By that time, it was pushing 5:00 p.m. I met Shannon and the kids at the pizza parlor up the street for a quick dinner. John Cochran, the Social Sciences teacher up the hall and my compadre in the announcer's booth at the football games, met us for dinner. I was bouyed by hearing one of my students in the pizza place telling his friends, "That's Mr. B. He's my Tech teacher. He's awesome!" That make most of the long day worth it!

Then, it was off to the game. We played hard, but got our hats handed to us by the local rival Eaton Reds, 41-12. It is getting pretty cold out there in the booth in the late evenings.

Game let out at about 9:45 p.m. By 10:00p.m., I was in my car on the way home.

Geez, what a long, long day.