I am CURSED

Okay--my modem is apparently fried as a result of a lightning storm on Tuesday night.  I was on it until midnight Tuesday night...it was fine.  The storm came and went.  My connection was fine.

Wednesday morning--nothing. 

I thought, ah--just like with Prairie Lakes (*spit*).  Everytime the wind blew that worthless service went down.  I fully expected it would be back up and fine on Wednesday night.  NOPE.  I tried to reset it--no effect.  DeAnn came over to reset it--no better luck.  Being without my internet connection is JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE. 

I'm at school now--brought my laptop in with me it works off the school's wireless connection.

The other bit of unhappy news is my knee.  It is damaged.  I have done horrible things to both my knees in the past.  The time that I tripped over the strip of metal on the door frame is one of the worst.  It was swollen and purple for weeks.  I could barely walk.  It was god-awful.  But this is the first time I've ever been told it might require surgery.  Jeff (my chiropractor) said my knee had a lot of "laxity"--apparently that means it is loose.  He adjusted it--along with my hip, my back, and my neck.  It hurt like hell. 

My knee does feel somewhat better today.  At least it isn't making that "clicky" feeling and noise.  And I can put my weight on it again.

Further evidence that I am cursed--I have attempted to write this entry three times today--each time something has happened to wipe it away and I have had to start it over again.

*GRRRR*

I'm feeling a bit weary and depressed.

The radio just said that we could have thunderstorms again tonight.

Whoopie.

I've accomplished basically NOTHING today at school.

I had two meetings--one with the whole staff where we got some information about stuff Jay needs from us and what we need to do before we are done for the summer.  The other was an English department meeting with Robin and Mary.  We talked about what classes we were going to offer in the fall.

It looks like my schedule will be :

(1)  Homeroom

(2)  Children's Lit (section 1)

(3)  Children's Lit (section 2)

(4) Prep

(5)  Senior Seminar

(6)  BST Writing Seminar/Writing Skills (section 1)

(7)  BST Writing Seminar/Writing Skills (section 2)

It is good to have an idea of what I'll be doing next fall.  I can work on this during the summer--especially the senior seminar.  I want to really hammer down on that next year.

I want to have a GREAT year next year.

This year was like a C average year.  I want at least a B+ next year--and I'd prefer an A.

I guess I will post this before I lose it again.

bleah.

 

 

YAY!!!!

I am back on line at home!!!!

RAAAAAHHHHHH!

It was not a fried modem as I had feared.  It was some kind of inconsistency in my modem.  I called tech support just before I left school, and lo and behold, when I got home, I called them again and it took about 15 seconds to fix.

  And thus, I celebrate the joy of being reconnected to my world of choice.

 

I called DeAnn to tell her the happy news--and she asked if I had any desire to bring home some Chinese food.  My first inclination was to groan and decline as I was totally knackered and in need of some rest.  But then I thought, screw it.  I need to eat anyway.  So I picked up some Chinese food (house special egg fu yung, beef and broccoli, sesame chicken).  The little container of gravy for the egg fu yung self-destructed in transit.  It looked like a weapon of mass destruction had hit the cover dead center.  I'm lucky it didn't destroy the bag and get all over my car seat on the way home.

When I got home it took just seconds to put it all to rights.  So I am extremely joyous.

It is getting close to 10 pm and I am still worn out, so I think I'll be sleeping here shortly.

Tired....bleah.

I've got to go to school tomorrow and ATTEMPT to get some more work done.

There is sooooo much to do.

And I want to get the majority of it done so I can get on to my other projects at home, and most of all I want to put some serious focus into getting that novel FINISHED.  Even if it is terrible and sucks the mega weinie of all time, I want to have ONE piece of my fiction completed.

Then, I want to dig into the next one immediately.

Something with dragons in it, I think--or pixies.

I like pixies.