What are you doing now? (don't say posting)

...or reading threads.

I'm peeling 'taties.

multi-talented Mr A!

I'm watching the old Larwence Welk show on PBS

I'm getting ready to go out and....buy a new universal tv remote...since mine broke (I know! Wild night) :D

ET: change a verb...

it's important to change your verbs before you go out. You never know, you could get run over and you wouldn't want the ambulance drivers to see your old verbs.

I should have said, peeling 'taties slowly. Now i've moved on to the snowpeas. Also slowly.

I'm taking a break from watching Sabrina -- Sophie wanted to go out. No idea why she would want to do that, as it's cold and windy out there, but you know how dogs are. And while I was up, I thought I'd check in here!

I'm listening to my daughter serenade me with drinking straws. Although it sounds like a...different kind of music...

Procrastinating... I should be studying! But it's a chilly day so it feels like I should just get back in bed with a book (not textbook) or a movie...

Posting (you're not the boss of me) p~

Scanning book covers. Listening to music.

watching Barney with Adara.

Reading threads; see post 8.

At work, with nothing to do... feeling mopey. (And before you ask, Mopey is just fine about it).

Finishing my morning coffee, putting up out of office messages since I'm home sick, and thinking about driving to Target to buy a copy of DH1 to watch today while I'm home...

Just finished weeding a bunch more books from the school library (big books, which no teacher has used in the 3 years I've been here. I am covered with dust). Waiting for the bell to ring so I can escort kindergartners to the mommies.

>#12: hah!

>#8, 11: :P

threading Reads.

Wondering why MrA never told us he's a bookbinder.

Well now I'm wondering that, too!

That is a cool idea. I'm showing it to Cat.

I'm planning out first vlog, and writing on my book

I want one of those necklaces!

I'm watching Ally McBeal reruns on Netflix and posting =P

Trying to build a schedule that will work for me and my mother-in-law so I can hopefully get my book finished by the end of my summer break. Because right now it's not working. I can't get anything done.

I'm relaxing after blowing up seventy balloons (with a balloon pump) for a balloon sculpting workshop tomorrow. My fingers are sore from tying knots in balloon necks.

Watching here comes Polly

I am resting and catching up on online stuff after moving lots of furniture and boxes.

really? Where am I coming from? sorry bad joke

Let's see what am I doing right now?

- Watching You Tube Videos
- Planning out my writing session schedule
- checking my email
- Making a list of things that I'll need for Monday's adventure

I'm finishing up tomorrow's powerpoint for church. I also have a puppy laying on my lap, which is making it hard to type.

Next up: playing with puppy or checking email. I hate to disturb him since I just got him to be still. Maybe I'll check my email first and then play.

Not writing the reports for work that I should be writing...and getting lost in speculation about what Pottermore will prove to be!

Procrastinating on an application paper. My head hurts and I need to get this 5 page paper done, but done well. I really need the scholarship for this next year or I will not be able to do what I want to do.

I'm having a lazy day, as much as I need to write to stay on track, I just don't feel like writing today. So I'll have to make up for it tomorrow...But I did get some reading done that I needed to get done.

I'm going to bed...yeah, that's right, it's early friday night (at least where I am) and I'm going to bed. How lame is that???

#33 - Nah, that's not lame. I go to bed really early sometimes too. It just depends on what I did during the day. Sometimes when I write ALL day long, I'm passing out at 8-8:30 pm (that's really early considering I usually don't go to sleep until about 2 am)

#33 -- I'm feeling a little under the weather, so I may just follow your excellent example in a little while!

I also went to bed early last night but thats not unusual for me on Friday night

nine month old baby in this house. Yeah, not unsual for me either.

Resting. Granddaughter Charlotte just went home with her parents after a 4 1/2 day visit. Holy cow, I forgot how much work 2 year olds are! (But we had a lot of fun!)

#38 - Wow you have a Charlotte in your family too! I have a cousin named Charlotte who is just about 2 years old. (turns 2 in July)...They are so cute at that age.

Me...i'm surfing the net;)

I'm going to bed after writing a chapter on my book and 5 letters to people. Goodnight!

Hmm..It's almost midnight and I have to leave the house in 7 hours. Perhaps I should go to bed. I got distracted by the computer, but now my battery is almost gone. It must be a sign.

Should be working...Don't wanna work.

watching TV

Putting ice on my head.

I'll bite: what happened to your head, JP?

Ummm...I thought I was 20 again?

I was trying to do a second backbend into a bridge and my arms decided that one was my limit. Bonked my head into the grass.

Do you have a pain from juggling?

LOL, comp-twin! Posting when I'm posting, are we? :oD

Playing with the new "What should you borrow" feature. With both parents, two sisters and a cousin on LT, I've got a decent chance of actually borrowing some of this stuff!

Isn't it great! Even if I can't borrow from friends, it still gives good ideas for reading.

There is a borrow feature? I'll have to go look!

After I do what I'm doing now, which is making diapers. Unless I decide I need lunch first. Work can always wait a couple more minutes, right?

Watching "It Came From Beneath The Sea" and playing on LibraryThing.

Watching "The Universe" on The History Channel and developing plans to make child muzzles, so maybe....just maybe I can watch an entire show in peace & quiet.....when I'm finished checking up on posts here, I'm going to try to finish one of the Horcruxes I'm making for a Ravelry group.

I don't know if i'm more alarmed by knitted horcruxes or It Came From Beneath The Sea.

What about knitted horcruxes that come from beneath the sea?

...And now I'm thinking about how cuddly a knitted horcrux would be.

I don't know. Wouldn't you have to murder a ball of yarn to make it a true knitted horcrux?

Murdering any old ball of yarn wouldn't do it. You'd need to do something truly horrible, like mangling cashmere, or, even worse, burning a ball of quiviut yarn. *shivers at the awfulness of those acts*

I'm planning my video blogs that will be filmed shortly, once I motivate myself to straighten my hair again, oh and writing down a new story idea that just came to me. Then back to my writing.

#55-58...lol =P Actually they are crocheted horcruxes ( We had to choose between hallows & horcruxes) b/c I don't know how to knit. It's for the Harry Potter Knit & Crochet House Cup group. *Shudders at the thought of mangling or burning a ball of high quality yarn* I'll post pictures later =)

surfing the web anb responding with bored mmhhhs and really? to my husband who is watching glenn beck on fox and has many comments

#61 Polly, lol! I love the mental picture of the situation you described. I've had those moments when husband is exclaiming about some baseball thing and I try to act interested while reading or internet-playing.

Getting ready to enter a hoard of books that I have bought over the last 2 months. Then I need to decide which 2 I'm going to take on my trip.

Lefty> (giggle) Sometimes he realizes that I'm not really listening and gets exasperated!

I'm catching up online after work and some housework. I'm also silently celebrating getting the next two days off work.

Thinking about actually eating breakfast this mornig instead of just my regular coke. I'm scheduled to give blood platelets today, and really need to eat...but nothing sounds good. Suggestions?

yogurt

Our family always has eggs for breakfast when we give blood. And orange juice. And I have coffee because if I don't, my blood pressure tends to drop dangerously close to the low end for giving blood, like 90/70 range.

Let's see what am I doing?

FINALLY getting some writing done. It's raining and the sound is soothing, so I tried to write and I've gotten a chapter an half done so far...taking a break at the current moment since I've been writing all morning. Yay.

#68 jp:
I have a phlebotomist for a mother and a nursing student for a sister, but neither's explained to me which number's for what. What does each represent? Mine's normally at 90/60 when they check, I believe.

I'm carefully planning what I should read next on LT since I don't have time to read as many books anymore.

Back from giving platelets. I always feel blah afterwards, which gives me an excellent excuse to just sit around and read. So that will be my plan for the rest of the day.

#70: Top number is systolic (point of greatest pressure), bottom number is diastolic (point of lowest pressure). 90/60 happens to be the lowest you blood pressure can be, otherwise you can't give blood. At one point when I was pregnant with my youngest, I register something like 60/40. The nurse redid it, but I couldn't really get into a normal range. Not surprising that I ended up being diagnosed with hypothyroid after she was born.

I am singing the praises of Amazon (after cursing them for a time) for fixing their error. When combining Kindle and paperback edition of my book, they accidentally axed all the reviews.

After a few hours, all 27 are back... relatively, their support team was pretty helpful.

Just got finished dying my hair. Now I'm going to work on a few things for summer school.

Just got back from a long day of work...catching up on LT and Facebook.

Just finished lunch and am on my way back to a meeting.

Trying to make it through a full day at work. I was doing well this morning, but the nerve pain is starting up again now.

#72 jp:
Thanks, jp. Oh, my! : /

#77 bib:
Sorry you're still hurting. I hope the time passes quickly for you.

I'm checking to see if an audio book of The Lost Gate that I got from PaperBackSwap is working before marking that it's been received and thanking the sender for book.

I'm waiting for my hamburger to cook

Sitting in a nice coffeehouse with my husband and a friend of ours, enjoying NOT studying. I passed my National Certification Exam, so I'm going to enjoy a break.

Careful, Polly. Any time I leave food to cook on its own, I invariably get distracted and remember the cooking food by the smell of it burning! ;)

LOL! thanks Lefty, luckily my hamburger cooked to perfection!

I'm staring at my computer screen in shock. When I got home, I went to check sales of Progeny before starting editing.

I blinked a few times when I saw it, thinking I was crazy. But, sure enough: Top Rated in Fantasy for Kindle.

Granted... I'm number 17... but I'll take it (for now ;) ).

I just finished adding the 9 books I got over the weekend in New Orleans to my library. I should now go to bed, as I'm still weary from conference travel, but while my body is tired my mind is not. Might go read...

#83: Congratulations! What a great accomplishment!

Editing Chapter 17 of book 2.

baking heart-shaped strawberry jam tarts for a strange woman.

ETA jam. Wouldn't want any misunderstandings.

Finished up editing Chapter 18 and managed to actually cut words this time around (a rarity for me). Somehow I've managed to only add 3k words over the span of 117k.

have you tried deleting every third word? Seriously trims that bloated word count, and adds a delightful air of piquant mystery to the storyline. Post-modern masterpiece, anyone?

Finished baking the heart-shaped tarts, and made shortbread. Made some in mini-muffin pans, turned out quite well. Also made a standard pan of shortbread and attempted to cut heart-shaped biscuits (cookies) out of it. Got six full hearts and a pile of delicious broken hearts. Om nom nom nom.

Broken hearts are better. You don't feel guilty about eating them. ;o)

I'm trying to decide whether the weather will cooperate for fireworks tonight, or if we will have to use Plan B and join the (bigger) crowds for fireworks tomorrow. My choice would be to stay home and watch them on TV, but alas, I have children who like the full sensory experience.

Right now I'm watching Catbastet perform spinal surgery on the poppet she's making. It's delicate work. She told me to stop making beep sounds (like a heart monitor) because it makes her laugh.

#90, MrA - I've never thought of using mini muffin pans for shortbread - great idea!

I'm drinking my first cup of coffee this morning and trying to wake up while waiting for the cinnamon rolls to finish baking. Nothing says happy birthday America better than cinnamon rolls for breakfast, right?!

#92 jp:
That's hilarious. :)

I'm catching upon LT, then checking out different cell phone companies online because I'm thinking of getting a new phone. I've been watching my family being able to have apps and have been wishing I could, too. Metro doesn't have apps, so neither do I.

Getting ready to watch the Harbor fireworks out our hotel window. We just got back from a long lunch/dinner cookout at my SIL's family's house.

I've just got up, made pack lunches for my daughters, now going to wake them up for school! :)

Doing a book inventory, and writing blogs/reviews.

eating cucumbers, texting....

can't you wait until they finish texting before you eat them?

talented cucumbers, i must say...

texting without thumbs is an amazing feat!

do cucumbers have feet?

#99- yes, they were very talented, but i had to end their short existence.

#100- i can do it, just slowly lol

#101- i dont think so, unless someone carved a cucumber to look like a foot, which is technically possible.

I couldn't find a cucumber foot, but I did find this:

http://recipes-book.org/images/Cucumber-Race-Car-with-Radish-Driver_1.jpg

cute... that radish looks like a peep!

what if the cucumber was 12 inches long? Then it would be a...

...ruler. Which is why it doesn't need feet. Give it an inch...

it'll take ranch dressing on the side??

I would really like to take a vacation to an actual place instead of just inside my head :)

#107 - Laray - Heck yeah, me too!

I am sitting at my desk at work. There is absolutely no work to do. It is silent because no-one talks to each other. I have run out of things to google. *sigh*

That's why they invented Librarything. :-)

True!!

I am also at my desk at work. I actually have work to do, but really don't feel like doing it :)

I too am at work, at my desk. I spent my morning looking for 77 missing files in a repository I manage, and am now waiting on my tech guys to find them for me. I am also procrastinating on starting a book chapter draft...

#112....... that sounds, um, innnteresting.....

Let's see what am I doing? I'm doing to bed after writing 2 chapters today (with some distractions throughout the day of course). Off to bed so I can write more tomorrow after my workout session.

I wish I could write. My DH tells me I should, but I work and have a home and kid...honestly I feel I do well to string two uninterupted thoughts together. :)

What do you write Alishamb08? Fiction, Non-Fiction...?

LaRay, you should try what I'm doing. It's much more manageable. Someone blogged about writing for fifteen minutes a day in August. I'm not a fast typist...or thinker...but I've got about 6 pages of a story that has been niggling my brain for years and I've been tweaking a collection of comic strips and articles that I plan to eventually publish, because friends keep bugging me to do it. :oP

The main challenge to writing fifteen minutes a day is finding a chance to sit uninterrupted. I hadn't had a chance all day yesterday, so I did it at night. My nine year old doesn't understand that if my fingers are tapping the keys, she shouldn't come to me every two minutes to report on other things happening in the house, like what happened in the episode of Sailor Moon that she watched with her sister, or that the cat had managed to eat (the cat has been having mouth problems.) Then she took out the karaoke machine and started making echo sounds through the mike. Typing to simulated whale song. Never thought that would happen.

#115 LaRay - I write fiction. I want to be a YA author. I love reading it so why not. My current work in progress (through almost finished with rough draft) is about teenagers living in a life of street racing (after their father died), and my second project I'm plotting out is a vampire story. (I had to at least one write to get it out of my system before moving onto another 5 ideas that I have)

And #116 is right, as long as you write on a daily basis, the story will get done. Even if you don't have 15 minutes a day, take 5-10 minutes. However much time is available to you. I usually try to write for hours at a time, but sometimes that's not always feasible. I take what I can get.

I have a story idea that has been with me for years. Lately I've been trying to write down plot points as they occur to me. That's about all I can get time for right now. But I am more defanitly determined to try! Thanks for the words of advice.

I would also probably be more geared to YA. It's my prefered genre along with scifi/fantasy.

I have just finished writing my review of The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. I did not like it. Now I will be wondering what to read next.

I am very pleased that I have finally managed to finish a book this year, even if I hated it.

power to ya! lol

I just saw Deathly Hallows, Part II for the fourth time.
I used italics for emphasis to show that, yes, you read that correctly.

#121 - I'm jealous! I'd really like to make it back for a second time, but I don't see that happening.

I'm currently drinking my *fourth* cup of coffee of the morning, trying to gear myself up for the day. I've got two rather intense meetings, one by phone, and unfortunately I have a bad case of the TGIFs which usually means I have difficulty focusing :)

Mmmm....coffee. Still on my first cup, but I'm sure I'll catch up.

hehehe caffine :) i love it

I wanna day off!

posting! hahahahahahahahaha

school starts tuesday ugh :p

Waiting on my Sonic drink. Then off to church to fill 350 water balloons.

#128 - OK, kirby, I'm curious: what's with the balloons??

I'm sitting in my favorite chair, drinking a beer, and reveling in my birthday present to myself: a custom made elf coat!!! (See the GN/BN thread for explanation if you're confused...)

Doesn't everyone fill water balloons at church? *nudges bag of water balloons behind door with foot.*

I am procrastinating....I should be in bed since it is almost midnight.....

130--ooohhhh, I know I know! It's a baptism, right???

kik! No not a baptism. I promised my Wednesday night kids (30 of them from ages 3-13) that we would do water games on our last Wednesday night of the summer. That was last week, and we had to move it back a week because of lightning. So this week we went ahead and did it. My fingers were numb about 200 balloons in.

I'm currently trying to catch up on email, group posting here, and in my other group, and getting ready for my classes on Monday.

school.....nooooooooooo!!!!!

new grdbaby! YYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSS!

Congrats, Polly! Glad all went well.

College homework...ugh

Right now? Wishing I was in bed.... (mid-week post-show parties are never a good idea, except at the time...)

Watching the rain, no one is exercising now. Hopefully when it lets up that will change.

getting ready to go to a picnic in the rain at our senior citizen apartment building! I'm really excited!

Just came in after racing to finish mowing before the rain. I didn't quite make it.

Home with some sort of stomach thing. Woke me up in the middle of the night and hasn't let go since. :(

hey, it isn't raining here! :) Kinda wish it was tho'. It's freakin' HOT!!!!!

wishing for my welcome email to the Pottermore website, and making a list of homework that I need to do this weekend

i hate ap classes too much reading!!!!!!!

#146 - That's how I'm feeling right now about my college classes, I have tons of reading to do this weekend, and some Spanish homework and reviewing to do. We are only in the first week, it's insane.

Oh yeah, what am I doing? reading

Getting ready take home kits for my kiddos next week. All books are stapled, math games made, materials sorted, and parent letter written. I'm waiting on a translation, and need to make a parent checklist. I have a few volunteers coming tomorrow morning to put them all together. Next I'm going to work on our class buddies journal. This year's buddy is an iguana. The boys named him Spike.

getting ready to twirl at the first football game of the season!!! :)

Seriously thinking about going to bed... Thinking about it even harder now that I can't even tell if seriously is spelled right or not... :)

Sitting in the carwash. I just filled up the tank, and got a discount on the carwash. Tomorrow early I'll vacuum it out. I'm getting ready for a teacher trip to Tulsa. We need a break from all the stress, and a shopping trip to an educational store will help. We're going to hang out and eat while we're there. It seems like I haven't seen any of the other teachers on my hallway for 2 weeks.

Apparently I can't spell on my BlackBerry. I'll have to edit that post later.

I have a new job with a company that goes to schools and does a music program and a Kindergarten wrap-around program. Thats the part I'm involved with. Its cool because we have a kindergarten room thats just for us! Our company is the actual music program for this school so we want to make a good impression so they will keep us.

I'm enjoying noodling around online while watching Hurricane Irene coverage on t.v. while Rex naps and my husband is reading in another room. I'll probably turn off the t.v. and get off the computer soon to read myself, but I didn't get much sleep last night so I'm not positive I can concentrate for sustained reading!

Congratulations polly! Good luck with the new job, and have fun with the little ones!

Thank you

Yeah, congrats Polly!

thanks all!

About to catalog some books after a final trip to Borders. I'm so sad they're closing, but I also just got $230 worth of books for less than $50. So conflicted.

hoping for a speedy recovery. I hate being sick.

does anyone know what they are going to put in the place of the borders stores? in my home town borders was the only good book store in town.

We've had two Borders stores closed in our area. One of them was one of the first closed, years ago, the other closed in March of this year. Neither has ever had anything move in to its place. Which is sad. The economy is not favorable for opening stores right now.

I have to drive about an hour to get to the nearest "good" bookstore. I'm feeling lucky that I'm in an area where it's a BAM not a Borders or I really would be SOL.

we have a B&N not far away along with a HPbooks so we are lucky!

we are lucky to have B&N too!

my nearest B&N is almost a two hour drive! I sometimes think I should open a book store, but don't think it would survive where I live

I'm watching a Friends marathon, though I should be sleeping.
So, they're in their early to mid-twenties at this point. I'm in my mid-twenties. It's funnier now than it was the last time I watched it (about ten years ago), but I'm really nothing like them. On the bright side, when my dad comments on the sexiness of any of the women, I can say, "She's 25 in this episode," and watch him blanche.

I'm helping catbastet get onto the @#%#@&^*%# college website. Which seems to be broken. Again.

#168 That reminds me of this!

I'm really wishing I had stayed home with my daughter on her birthday.

#169: LOL! Sadly, that is pretty accurate. :o)

LaRay, I'm sorry you didn't get to stay home with your daughter on her birthday. {{hugs}}

>169 justjukka: @Rozax Well-played!

I am finishing up my second mug of coffee, trying to find the will to work on a beautiful Saturday morning. Rex is at his grandparents, and I've got some big work deadlines later this month, so I really should take advantage of today to work. However, it's lovely out - sunny, bright blue sky, high of only 82 - and there are multiple fun things to go do today: annual book festival (my husband is there right now introducing an author), annual air show, church festival, gem & mineral show. And I'm at home, needing to work...

Can you work outside? Hook the laptop up to a long extension and set yourself up under a tree outside? It's what I would do...

I worked inside, but I did open my dining room drapes and raise the blinds so I could enjoy the sunshine. I got a lot of work done, which was good, and am glad I stuck with my plan. Thankfully today is almost as nice...and I'm not working!!

RE: bookstores
None of the closed bookstores near me have new businesses in them yet, either. I did recently have a fun day checking out a few bookstores across the bay and was happy with the stores I could find, though.

Right now I'm procrastinating finishing up on some cleaning. I've been cleaning all day. It must be contagious, too, because someone I live with who never cleans spent several hours cleaning as well. ;)

I am currently wishing I was at home back in bed.

Killing time before school Open House tonight. I live too far away to go home. Plus side...after school I had time to catalog a bunch of books. Unfortunately, I can't find spine labels to complete processing them. Third week of school, and I still don't have library shelves, so all my books and most of my stuff is in storage. Stopping now before I get into a serious rant...if you want to see my rant, though, hop over to "Librarians Who LibraryThing" and you'll see the whole sad, miserable, comedy-of-errors, craziness which has been my school year thus far. :)

I am procrastinating studying for my science test tomorrow. =|

I am reading blogs, wandering aimlessly through LibraryThing and putting off my Italian homework. :P

I'm taking a break from redecorating my friend's badge for work. She saw that I have Snoopy dancing on mine and made the request. I'm thinking Harry Potter theme, perhaps. ;)

Wondering if the promise of rain will actually be fulfilled this week. That would be lovely.

HEY, if you have an overabundance of rain in your corner of the world, try sending it to TX, would ya? Almost the entire state is under a "burn ban".

*waves to meg and K*

#182: You can have some of our rain if you like. We're feeling a bit waterlogged in NY. Thunderstorms predicted today and tomorrow.

I'm getting my notes together for my biannual storytelling workshop at the library. I've done this for years and I still get butterflies before it. Breathe in. Breathe out. Don't panic.

I WANNA BE A LIBRARIAN!!! I really do, but, alas, it will probably remain an unfulfilled dream... :(

#184 - Why? If you really want to be one, do! I am and I love it!! (Just don't read what I write below... ;o) )

I'm kicking myself for failing to make sure that the files I needed from my work laptop actually copied to my flash drive. It was *pouring* rain when I left this evening (meg, I'll try to send it down your way!), so I didn't want to lug my laptop across campus and risk it getting wet, as I only have a small umbrella. So I figured I'd copy 'em and work at home tonight my little netbook. FAIL. Didn't copy, and I cannot start from scratch, as these my are promotion dossier files and I'm far enough into the ones I need to work on that it isn't worth it. So I'm debating a second beer, since I don't need the same mental faculties tonight...

Never debate beer! It always wins.

If my rich uncled ever gets out of the poor house I might manage to become a librarian, but it isn't likly at this stage of my life. I wouldn't have the time to take the classes even if I had the money to go...

i am regretting the decision to take apush and ap bio at the same time

Drinking a NeuroSleep.

reading posts and wishing I had a job. Nice as it is to sleep in and all, I'd rather be working

190> You can have my job and I'll sleep if you will still pay my bills :-)

I was doing Geometry, until now. :)

I'm killing time before field hockey practice.

I'm looking up the State Fair of Texas, which opens this weekend. Can't wait!

OMG just submitted my first article to be published!! i'm excited & scared and and ahhhhhhhhh (at a loss for words) :D D: :O

I got a job! yaaaaaaaaay! Start next week in preschool

Congratulations, Polly! I hope you enjoy it!

thank you!

#195 - Veta, what type of article and where? Regardless, congrats!

#196 - Yay, Polly!

I'm waiting for my mom to drop off my son, whom she and my dad took home with them last night since my husband had to work this morning and I co-hosted a brunch baby shower for a dear friend. I'm also drinking pumpkin beer, and relishing the fact that while I worked on cleaning up the kitchen, my husband vacuumed and dusted the rest of the house, so we have a clean house!!!

I'm wasting my time on LibraryThing - that's not the same as posting!

Is time spent on LibraryThing wasted? I find it therapeutic. ;-P

I know it is - but since I should be doing schoolwork, my teachers would qualify it as 'wasting.' :P

Yes I'm at work too, so it probably would be considered time wasted...You have a valid point :) I'm really wishing I wasn't at work.

procrastinating my homework....again lol

glad to be home. Its raining cats and dogs out there and I'm glad to be home

I love the rain! I went for a run and it felt absolutely amazing.

Rain is awesome. I don't mind running half so much when I run in it!

Showering while you run - what's not to like?

I know right! Then you just feel wet instead of sweaty.

Hm. My rain-loving family would say you'd miss out on it if doing anything but walking in it. ;)

I've just gotten home from work and am sitting before going out again, for birthday giftwrap.

Right now I'm just soooo happy cause today I was selected for yearbook editor AND my coach elected me to an all-star team sort of thing!!! =D

Trying to get motivated to write my lesson plans for the next 6 weeks period. Unmotivated b/c the lesson I want to teach 3rd grade, "how to use the OPAC", I can't do b/c there are not enough computers (there are 3, but only 2 actually work). Usually I teach it in the computer lab w/ the computer teacher, but that time slot has been taken for tutoring. We have a mobile lab now with laptops, but I have to wait until the PTB decide it's ok to load the OPAC program on them. Which of course, I don't have administrative rights to do, and must wait for someone else to do. So in the meantime, b/c of construction issues, no library books for the first 6 weeks of school, budget cuts, etc etc, I'm about 8 weeks behind in what has normally been taught by this time. So....guess we'll delay that lesson another 6 weeks. How does 6 weeks of "Silent Sustained Reading" on my lesson plans sound?

Oh dear. I just realized this turned into something of a rant.

6 weeks of "Silent Sustained Reading" sounds good to me. I believe kids learn more when they read, anyway. Schools assign kids too much homework, in my opinion. They should leave more time for reading, not writing stupid essays that will never matter again in your life! Hmph. I realize that I just ranted too. :)

Lessons plans done for next 6 weeks for all grade levels except 3rd. Two weeks ahead of schedule. Feeling righteous now.

Good for you! Now I gotta go work on schoolwork or I'm dead.

*mentally pushing myself away from LibraryThing, because it's so difficult*

Sitting in the San Francisco Airport munching chips/crisps. The connection will time out in 45 minutes, and then I'll continue reading Dragonsinger.

Getting ready to make chocolate sheet cake with the leftover buttermilk in the fridge.

waitin to munch on my burger n get glued to karin slaughter's fractured

I made a chocolate sheet cake with buttermilk today, too!

Filling out paperwork for my professional license, and gloating a little over having won a Lunette Cup from a drawing. ^_^

I have chocolate sheets on my bed. Not as sticky as you would expect.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... chocolate.

my dream! A chocolate river!

Right now we're watching the ABC version of Titanic.

I'm not posting, I'm reading

I'm waiting impatiently for my confimation e-mail from Pottermore!

I'm taking a homework break!