This was never intended to be a weekly blog, but I have been so busy the past week that I have had virtually no computer time. Monday night I got home 9:30 from our monthly Target Teach seminar. Tuesday we all stayed late doing the Target Teach grades for the first marking period. Wednesday was the Morris Area Math Allianc e workshop at which I spoke about preparing students to take the state-mandated graduation requirement HSPA (which I am definitely not an expert on). I spent Thursday and Friday nights catching up on schoolwork and wading through some of the pile of mail which had accumulated all week. *sigh*

This weekend will be a bit better, devoted to such chores as writing a tests, finalizing first marking period grades, and writing recommendations and nominations for several people. My hope is to finish all my work today, so that I can have Sunday relatively free. But you know what the fate of such dreams usually is.


Currently Reading: The Skull Mantra, by Eliot Pattison, a detective novel set in contemporary Tibet, which is more concerned with Tibetan culture and history, and its relationship with China, with the mystery as more of a framework than the book’s raison d’etre. It is fascinating reading and, at least in my amateur opinion, very authentic.

Currently Listening: Gryphon was an acclaimed progressive rock group of the 1970s, known for making “medieval” music. They finally have a two-cd anthology Crossing the Styles and it runs the gamut from music that indeed resembles 1,000 year old folk music to pure progressive rock. Very interesting stuff.