Tear It Up!

I am alive, and well.

We are reading Julius Caesar right now. The following conversation occurred in my 7th hour class today:

B: Miss Cook. What would you do if I ripped four pages out of this textbook?

Me: I would charge you 80 bucks.

B: For four pages?!

Me: Yep.

B: It's almost worth it... (he is seriously contemplating)

Me: Here. Let me give you something else to rip.

I walked to my cupboard and pulled out an old textbook, one that is musty and nasty and 22 years old.

Me: Go for it!

B: Really?

Me: Yep.

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(A conversation overheard a few minutes later)

B: How much will you pay me for tearing out a page?

C: A dollar.

RIP!

B: How much will you pay me for tearing out a page?

J: 50 cents.

RIP!

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B then went out in the hall to see if anyone else would pay him for ruining a book.

He ended the day, frustration over Caesar released, $2 richer, thinking I am a loon.

And I had an amusing 7th hour.

Kisses!

I am fairly sure that I should not be allowed to blog right now because at present I am surviving on a mixture of liquid Lortab, IB 800 and herbal teas.

I am ill; in fact, I am suffering from the oh-so-glamorous mono, also known as the kissing disease. Yep. I am so proud. This is something that apparently is going around the high school, and is typically something mostly passed around 16 and 17 year- old hoodlums.

My throat is swollen to a point of extreme discomfort. I sleep and then wake up and have no concept of how much time has passed.

I am posting this in an attempt to get sympathy from the masses. Please! Send your good wishes my way.

KISSES!

My 2009

Choose Your Own Adventure

If given the choice between two submarines, which would you choose?

A) This submarine can travel only east to west. It does not have the capability to turn and travel north to south, nor can it travel west to east. You travel in one direction. Should a current snap you up, you will still travel east to west but will also drift a bit without your consent, perhaps to the north or the south. Your destination is unknown, but the submarine will pretty much move forward in the same direction, and will make it to the destination safely.

B) This submarine can travel east and west and north and south, but only with the help of powerful magnets. The over use of these magnets has made the submarine a little less reliable. In fact, while on the journey there is a chance that this submarine will split in half and sink because the magnets have weakened the ship so much. But, you are not at the mercy of currents. You are mostly in control of your travels, with the small exception of the danger that you are in while on this submarine.

I had to choose between these two in a dream I had this afternoon. What do you suppose my choice to be?

I also welcome any comments offering dream analysis.

Kisses!

On Silence

"But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart."

-Luke 2:19

This statement has been rolling around in my brain lately, one that is both meant for the season, and profound. I am not Mary by any means; I am not the sacred and special lady that she was. But I, too, am a woman of God, one who understands this concept of pondering within one's heart.

I have faced a great deal of feelings lately, and a few challenges. I find myself fast becoming the woman that I want to be; I am able to feel more joy than I ever expected to feel.

I am also racked with thoughts of despair, thoughts of sadness and loneliness that I cannot express.

More than anything, I sit on my thoughts. I ponder the life that I lead and the life that I want to lead and sometimes find it better to not say anything at all.

It is contrary to this post to even blog about this, but the moral of the story is this: sometimes silent pondering is okay, is more valuable than proclaiming one's thoughts to the world.

Happy almost Christmas!