I am sitting in my car with the AC blasting me into the artic circle. The weather is taking my head off today. And allergies have my throat stuck in such a whirl its not funny. I cannot wait for this weekend and next week in cool, chilly Door County. I spoke with Laurie and I am so excited to see her, John and the baby. I am also excited to finally park my body, brain and beauty in neutral. I have been going nonstop since last year.

Here at 7am

I am doing a school program today at the most uncreative time in the world. I think I now know why kids are not pleased with the schools today - they are starting too darn early. Who in their right mind would be doing any school learning at this time. Wow... I can barely stay focused while typing this email blog.

Oh the kids
I just left what I would call a cluster )&@#? ! The kids I worked with were just not all present. I was doing another afterschool program in north county and the thing was disappointing from the word go. The kids just didn't have focus. They had tons of presence but no skeleton - no structure. I watched teachers and aids get there attention way before my class by screaming, yelling and shouting sarcasm and other snide remarks. So it wasn't surprising to hear them (kids) use them on each other and me. They so wanted to PLAY but they didn't know how.
No!
They knew how-it was just different. It was rules of the olded days where brute force wins. Volume is the god with them.
What did I do?
Not much- it was hard not to go crazy myself. I was almost ready to snap but I couldn't. I just didn't think it would help.
These kids are so used to being heightened already.
Wow it was hard.
Very hard.
Reggi

Chicago traffic

It suck. I really hate traffic. I especially hate it when I am trying to get somewhere. Anything that can happen - will when driving in Chicago.

Emo and me

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