July 4th Roundup

Like I’ve said before, the part of teaching I dislike the most isn’t the classroom management–it’s the preparation and lesson planning.  I used to think that I had it tougher as a biology teacher than teachers of other subjects do, but after participating in the summer school literacy workshop I witnessed the amount of legwork English and Language Arts teachers need to do in advance of their classes.  Math teachers still have it easy, though.  I bring this up because I’ve had 4 wonderful days off (6 if you count the weekend) from school, yet I’m scrambling and lesson planning for tomorrow writing a late-night blog as usual.

It’s worth it, though.  I’ll get the work done and I had a pretty nice holiday over at Cassandra’s BBQ.  I’ve got to think of a nickname for her.  She kinda reminds me of the wife in 300.  Good food, good friends, basketball, a swimming pool, some Playstation 2 and some of the most head-turning conversations about oral sex that I’ve certainly ever heard.  For a variety of reasons, it’s nice to know men and women who are unabashed and frank (unabashedly frank?) about their sex lives.  I mean, it’s riveting and informational and it keeps the shyest of us from having to ‘fess up.