Are there any good songs about Friday?

It's Friday, and I'm super stoked that I have two more bunches of hooligans before I have two glorious days away from this building.  I'm trying to come up with a song I can sing in my head for the rest of the school day, but I can't think of any about Friday. 

Sunday -- "Easy Like Sunday Morning", "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"



Monday - "Rainy Days and Mondays", "Manic Monday", "Monday, Monday"



Tuesday -- "Tuesday Afternoon", "Ruby Tuesday"



Wednesday --



Thursday --



Friday--  Okay, "Friday, I'm in Love."  I just thought of it.



Saturday -- "Saturday, in the Park", "Another Saturday Night", "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"



Alright, Friday is covered, but I guess I'm going to have to google Wednesday and Thursday.

I Can Blog From School!?

I was positive that there would be no blog updating from my school computer.  The firewall gods of DISD manage to find new websites to block daily, it seems.  In the past it was only Youtube and truly inappropriate websites, and now anything that could possibly be deemed too fun for kids is "RESTRICTED".  I cannot play any music from my computer, students don't have access to even educational gaming sites, and anything with video?  In the words of Jonathan Loar, "Fogedabaaadit."  In the midst of all of this censorship, my little blog has been overlooked!  Now I can perpetuate the failure of one resolution (grading papers in a timely manner) through the success of another.  Woohoo!  Okay, I REALLY need to enter grades...reaaaally.

Following Ben Franklin's Virtues

In 1726, Benjamin Franklin developed a plan for regulating his conduct.  He based his plan on a chart of thirteen virtues, committing himself to one virtue per week.  I have decided to use Ben's list of virtues to monitor my own behavior and attempt to cut down on my many daily transgressions.

Last week was temperance, which was not extremely difficult, because I don't generally drink or eat a lot.  I visited no buffets and avoided all opportunities to over-indulge, which had the potential to be difficult considering I am married to Mr. Chinese buffet .  Temperance ended up being a piece of cake (not multiple pieces of cake).

This week's virtue is silence. -- Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.--
This may prove to be slightly more difficult, seeing as I can't usually make it through a day without being drawn into at least one trifling conversation about a student or co-worker.  It really is the nature of my job, but this is the reason I am trying to lead a more virtuous existence.  I want to live a life as close to the one that I would choose for my daughter.  She deserves only the best role model and I want to be that for her. 

Lazy Sunday

Hazel is napping in her swing, Scott is cutting onions in the kitchen, and I am starting a blog. I usually don’t have time to read a paragraph in a book (the kind with more than twenty pages and no pictures), and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep up with this, but it’s a resolution, so here we go. I remember how cathartic it felt to write when I was in high school and had all the normal teen angst and at one point when I was much younger, I considered becoming a writer. In theory, this should be more fun than chore-like. Almost everything I do these days feels chore-like, so doing something because I WANT to can only do good things for me, right?

I have a lot of interesting things to write about. I teach sixth graders in an inner-city school, which provides enough fodder for its own blog. I am a new mother to a five month old, who is providing more anecdotal material by the day. I live in Mesquite, TX…Well, I AM a middle school teacher with a funny baby.

Scott just brought me a hamburger, which means Hazel will inevitably be waking up before I take my second bite. How does she know when it’s time for me to eat? How does she KNOW??? Wait, shhhh. I hear a squeal, and unless Sunny has figured out how to make baby noises, I must go.