end of the month blog watch

Sigh. I'm never going to get caught up with AQ and the blogs in the ring. I am looking at all the blogs I read last month before they go into archive again, but I haven't ever looked at half of them at all! Mea culpa! Ack!

Anyway, that doesn't mean that I can't or won't waste time. Goofiness is a necessary part of my life, so here goes the latest I saw on other's sites:

Going Around The Web This is from Debra's blog, A Stitch in Time...

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you

Oh wow - of all of the cool books on my shelf, I managed to put my blind hand on an old journal of mine that I didn't even know was there. Poor you! Now you'll be subjected to my rambling writings twice in one day! Alas!

Oh. Nothing illuminating. (I went to page 12, btw, since this book doesn't have 123 pages.) "I get to meet Terry C. tomorrow." Wow. Powerful stuff, eh? Actually, she was the Ice Queen that I did my first student teaching with; she was such a completely lousy mentor that the university actually gave me a FREE semester of student teaching the following Spring to make up for placing me with such a b----. Secondary science, btw. I teach remedial HS biology every summer. I love it!

Also - my guilty pleasure of choice: I am so NOT ashamed of this that I actually keep a nice kitchen spoon in the jar at all times - I eat Ovaltine straight from the jar. I've been known to go through an entire jar in 3 days. Tons of B vitamins, but ONLY the chocolate kind. Now you know. ;)

And, I'm a Progressive Girl, with heavy hints of Academic, Girl Next Door and Granola. I drive a mini-van so I can pack all of my camping and medieval reenactment gear and help all of my friends when they need to move. Smudge stick? Check. Water filter? Check. American car? Check (but lords would I love an old-school Saab!) Life's ambitions? Have children and make folk's lives better. Gee shucks.