Yes, I'm still alive...I think

I haven't updated this thing in a looooong time, mainly because I don't think anyone reads it.  Oh well.

I just finished with one of the longest weeks of my academic life.  I've written six papers since Monday, and if I have to write another one anytime soon, I am positively going to pull out all of my hair and run around screaming like a crazy woman.  I didn't realize when I accepted my place in this grad program that I was signing my life away for three years, but that's what it has turned into.  I'm done next Thursday, with a three week break until I start again for the summer.  I shouldn't complain, really, because this is a good opportunity and I'll be glad someday (in the very distant future) that I did it.  But right now, burn-out has set in, and I'm ready to be done.

Anyway.  My life is boring.  I haven't done anything exciting in a while, except I saw Wicked in Dallas last weekend.  Amazing...not quite the same caliber at Phantom or LesMis, but pretty awesome.  Makes me miss performing...although I know that my arthritic old lady knees couldn't hold up to it now.

I guess that's all for now.  I'm off to be boring and clean my kitchen.  Tomorrow is Friday!!!!!

You know you're a pre-k teacher when...

...the Wiggles are on the View, and not only do you know all of the songs...but you dance along by yourself in your living room.

:sigh:

What do you think?

I read an article yesterday about people wanting to genetically engineer their babies to have certain disabilities.  For instance, deaf parents might want a deaf child, so doctors create an embryo in a lab that will be deaf.  As a special ed teacher, I don't have a definition of normal (a "normal" child as compared to a "special" child)...but this just doesn't seem right to me. On one hand, I can see how people would want children who were 'like them' (although this is not important to me personally)...however, I think after a couple billion years, God's pretty much got baby-making down...who are we to mess with it?  What do you think?  Here's a link to the article. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16299656/

Also, speaking of babies, I was watching Adoption Stories today on the Discovery Channel, and that particular episode was about a gay couple who were adopting two little boys.  I'm very interested in domestic adoption , and things like this intrigue me.   Typically, these couples tend to adopt older or minority children, which are two areas in which there is a huge need for adoptive families.  The men on the program seemed to care for and interact with the two little boys very much like a traditional couple; they were even taking steps to expose the boys to their culture (the men were white and the boys were African-American) and make sure they had female influences in their lives. What do you think about homosexual couples adopting children? Why do you think they tend to gravitate more to the children who are passed up by the majority of adoptive couples (who tend to want healthy white babies)?

Almost done...

I'm two essay finals and one 5-minute presentation away from being done with the semester.  I absolutely cannot wait...I just wish the professor that requires the 40-page essay would hurry up and send us the questions!

I think it's just because it's that time of year, but I'm absolutely sick of Waco.  I guess living here for 23 years will do that to a girl.  I'm going to see the wonderful Katie Wade on the 14th in Dallas, and I'm TRYING to convince Tracey Fields to let me squeeze myself into her busy schedule at some point .  We'll see.

I might get to see this little guy next week. Let me tell you, if you're ever having a bad day, he can turn it around for you.  I heard yesterday that he's doing great in his new kindergarten class, except he keeps falling down.  Why, you ask?  He likes to dance with his walker.

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