Well.... today was an okay day. It started with a bit of drama at staff worship. After prayer Jermey reminded Vicki that he would be taking his class on a field trip, and she didn't remember about it, but said she'd figure something out. Then she left the room before I could ask her what time I could bring my boys down for her to talk to them. I guess Jermey misinteruppeted her leaving as leaving in a huff, and he became upset and slammed his fist on the table. Everybody in the room just about jumped out of their skin.

Later, Vicki came by my room and asked me if I still needed her to talk to my boys. I told her that she didn't, because for worship I had laid into the whole class about treating each other right, and showing God's love, etc etc. Then she asked me if I had a problem with her that I hadn't told her about. I was very surprised, and told her that I didn't know what she was talking about. She told me that Jermey had mentioned that I had said something to him about her. I told her that I had explained to the Bible study group about some of the reasons/frustrations which led me to my decision, but had tried to make it clear that it had nothing whatsoever to do with her. If I had a problem with her, which was fixable, I would go directly to her and try to resolve it! I really hope she believed me.I saw her talking to Susie later - a pretty deep conversation. I hope everything's alright, because after school was over and I was awalking out to my car, I saw our vice principal sitting in the van of one of our superintendants talking with him - and there wasn't a board meeting.

got a lot of grading done after school today. Everything since the last time I graded, up till today's is now graded, sorted, and ready to be stuffed into the folders. Tomorrow we're going to have Choir Practice in the morning, so that will in effect make tomorrow a half day.

Near the end of ER Scott called me. **I WANT TIVO!!!*** We talked for a little over an hour, and then he had to go into work. During our conversation I got a major leg cramp and pretty much shouted into the phone. He asked me what I was doing when he called, and I told him I was watching ER. He asked me if it was a re-run, and I told him that no, it was a new one. He offered to call me back and I gritted my teeth and told him that there are more important things in life than a tv show. *Wail!* There's also such a thing as closed captioning.

I got an email from my hs friend Charity today. She told me a couple of things that really surprised me. We first met my jr year. I was moving to NJ ahead of my parents so I could start school, and on registration day my family was sitting in the cafeteria eating lunch, and this girl stops by our table and asks if she could sit with us. That's where our friendship began - the three muskateers. Anyway, she told me in today's email that the year before we met, she had been 40 pounds heavier, and that the students had really been quite mean to her. And that her senior year (when we met) most of them were just superficially nice to her, except for me and Alex (the other part of our muskateers) and a few others. She'd never said anything about that before -at least not that I remember. I also don't remember her not having very many friends, I thought of her as fairly popular. But maybe my perception was skewed because I hung around with her and Alex and Ella, etc all the time we werent' in class or at work.
She also gave me some more insights into why our alma mater is actually closing, which were quite interesting, because they prove my dad was right.

Ok, it's really way too late, especially if I'm going to get up to do exercise in the morning.

Daily Goals:
Exercise: Nope - Day off today
Water: 1 liter
Food/Soda: Fudged a little bit over 7;no soda

Spending Log: None

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura