School, house, rock

The house hunt progresses slowly (if it progresses at all), and time rushes by as if Kronos himself were being prodded in the tush by Zeus. At least it feels like it when I think about school starting up in less than 3 weeks. Before I whine about that, it seems that negotiations fell through with the house in Collierville that we'd really liked. That and when we learned that a nearby street (that ours feeds into) will soon undergo construction to double it in size... well, what with the unfruitful negotiations and this news, the house has lost that loving feeling (Now it's gone, gone, gone... whoooa). We checked out a few houses this evening and were additionally bummed out when two of the houses that we were really hopefuly about just couldn't live up to expectations. Aaron and I both refuse to spend more on a house than it's worth or settle on a house if we're not completely happy with it... but we're starting to be a little bummed about the whole process. Not pessimistic, but not gung-ho or optimistic, either.

Back to school... now there's a phrase to strike fear into many kids' and teachers' hearts. Tomorrow is the first day I'll be able to take control of my room - finally! What with my few remaining days taken up by Aaron's family visiting, new teacher induction, workshops, etc.... I have no days after tomorrow to sit down and just work on lesson plans. I've got the first week mostly mapped out, although I still have to create two review tests (two full days worth) to give me a sort of preliminary assessment as to what the kids know, etc. So much to do... but the hard part is figuring what to do in the first place! Ugh... wish me luck.

On a sort of not so depressing note, I got a complete listing of all my thousands of mp3s on my old Dell and have no begun downloading those songs to the iMac. Of those thousands, I got 107 downloaded so far. Woo hoo!