Well, there are about six weeks remaining in the semester. I'm trying to find out what to do in the upcoming weekends (besides lesson planning)...
Dunn - NC Cotton Festival - November 3-4
Chapel Hill - 19th Annual Sculpture in the Garden - through November 17
Plus, there's Veterans Day (Remembrance Day in Canada) and Thanksgiving. Wow!
21.10.06
Connections to my seemingly isolated life in the past few days...people thought of me. How nice of them!
Telephone calls from
1) Yanceyville, NC (a VIF teacher from the Philippines)
2) Greenwood, SC (a former teaching colleague who moved back home to start a new job)
3) Edmonton, AB (family, o' course)
Text messages and emails from
1) San Bernardino, CA (a great friend)
2) Fayetteville, NC (a fellow VIF teacher who teaches in Hoke County)
3) Edmonton, AB (a great friend)
4) Coquitlam, BC (my sister's friend, with whom we lived for a month in Montreal this summer)
Telephone calls from
1) Yanceyville, NC (a VIF teacher from the Philippines)
2) Greenwood, SC (a former teaching colleague who moved back home to start a new job)
3) Edmonton, AB (family, o' course)
Text messages and emails from
1) San Bernardino, CA (a great friend)
2) Fayetteville, NC (a fellow VIF teacher who teaches in Hoke County)
3) Edmonton, AB (a great friend)
4) Coquitlam, BC (my sister's friend, with whom we lived for a month in Montreal this summer)
12.10.06
In case you've been counting (and I hope you haven't), this is post #200 of my blog. Not much to say except that I am ready for the weekend, and I have only taught two days this week (Monday was a teacher workday and Tuesday was parent-teacher conference day).
Last Saturday, I was driving on U.S. 74 to Charlotte (again, this time for a VIF workshop) and I might have gotten a ticket of some sort. I hope not, since I was only going about 5 mph over the speed limit in Marshville (the home of Randy Travis). In fact, the deputy sheriff's car passed mine as we crossed the county line. I was suspicious because the line of cars in front of me (four or five cars) were driving through the town (and through many traffic lights) alongside the police cruiser (pretty courteously, it seems), but then all of a sudden (a couple of miles down the road) the line pulled into the gas station with the police cruiser, as did the car behind me. If only I had taken N.C. 218 from Polkton instead...but I still arrived about 15 minutes late.
Anyway, I am so tired, but I have so much work to do!
Last Saturday, I was driving on U.S. 74 to Charlotte (again, this time for a VIF workshop) and I might have gotten a ticket of some sort. I hope not, since I was only going about 5 mph over the speed limit in Marshville (the home of Randy Travis). In fact, the deputy sheriff's car passed mine as we crossed the county line. I was suspicious because the line of cars in front of me (four or five cars) were driving through the town (and through many traffic lights) alongside the police cruiser (pretty courteously, it seems), but then all of a sudden (a couple of miles down the road) the line pulled into the gas station with the police cruiser, as did the car behind me. If only I had taken N.C. 218 from Polkton instead...but I still arrived about 15 minutes late.
Anyway, I am so tired, but I have so much work to do!
5.10.06
I was just thinking about how I have $1.13 left in my wallet until tomorrow. So that means no eating out, and no Dollar Menu from McDonald's since they haven't gotten out of their trans-fat food preparations yet.
I fixed myself a great big plate of spaghetti and meatballs for supper once I got home (at 5 p.m. today, since this is midterm week and no more tutoring) and thought how it might cost about $10 at a restaurant. Cooking at home is definitely cheaper.
1/3 of 1 lb. (=150 g) box of thin spaghetti: about 17 cents
1/4 of 10 oz. jar (=184 mL) of spaghetti sauce: about 26 cents
1/5 of 8 oz. bag (= 45 g) of shredded cheese: about 25 cents
5 Italian-style meatballs (1 oz. each): about 32 cents
Deluxe dinner for about a dollar. Healthier and tastier than Kraft Dinner, McDonald's or Chef Boyardee. And more filling than any Hungry-Man XXL dinner.
I fixed myself a great big plate of spaghetti and meatballs for supper once I got home (at 5 p.m. today, since this is midterm week and no more tutoring) and thought how it might cost about $10 at a restaurant. Cooking at home is definitely cheaper.
1/3 of 1 lb. (=150 g) box of thin spaghetti: about 17 cents
1/4 of 10 oz. jar (=184 mL) of spaghetti sauce: about 26 cents
1/5 of 8 oz. bag (= 45 g) of shredded cheese: about 25 cents
5 Italian-style meatballs (1 oz. each): about 32 cents
Deluxe dinner for about a dollar. Healthier and tastier than Kraft Dinner, McDonald's or Chef Boyardee. And more filling than any Hungry-Man XXL dinner.
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