The End is in Sight

Hard to do much when the day gets scrambled. Field day was actually a success, mainly because the kids who couldn't behave were not allowed to go. Sportsmanship, cheering but no booing, and fun. As a sort of reward I showed more movies in the afternoon and the kids did fine with that. Administration might frown, but who cares at this point. Friday should have been a "normal" day, but the homeroom (not mine) that won field day had to compete in the afternoon against the 7th and 8th grade winners, so we were back in homeroom again. I grabbed Akela and the Bee from the library, and again we had mostly well behaved little monsters.

At home we have a cardinal that has built a nest in the rose bush/tree next to the carport. The stem she built it on sags some, but is plenty high enough. I feel bad today, as it is raining, but I can see her tail feathers and bright orange beak in there. Of course, I am sure animals don't think of the rain like we do - they are adapted to shed water and maybe even welcome it for a drink while stuck in the nest. Rain is also good for the plants that have been put in the ground. The fig tree from last year is now about waist high and growing well. The two beautyberry trees are established and showing new growth (and no longer require daily or twice daily hosings), and the black raspberry went in yesterday morning and should do really well.

Yesterday was a nice change - teaching to a receptive audience. There were 25 people signed up but I only had 10 show up, and two were not on my original list, for the GRE GMAT prep. Naturally there was some sort of mixup and the classroom was double booked. Since I didn't book it, and it is the regular classroom for this session (AND because I had an email confirming it, that was also sent to the students) the other instructor moved to a different location.

Oh, and there was NO RAPTURE. Go figure.

There is part-time summer job in the offing, working with a cousin-in-law who is a lawyer, who has a company with a computer software techie. I will be writing a bunch of SBIR grant proposals and generally helping organize things. If things go well it could be the new job, but trying not to think about it too much at this early stage.