Snow Day

Tomorrow is a snow day.  School is off, and I have a pretty good plan for the day.  I bought some fire wood today.  I have a half of a bottle of wine in my possession, and a lot of planning to do for the next little chunk of school.  My Distinguished Teacher Recognition evaluation should take place sometime in the ten day window of the week directly before and directly after spring break.  Pretty much the worst time to do an observation, if you ask me.  Those two weeks are the ones in which students are the most highly distracted, and the times during which I will be evaluated by a team of people who will determine my worth as a professional.  Yippee.  I guess I am pretty happy for the unexpected day off, because I really should plan something impressive.

The Dallas ISD Twitter account made the day off official at around 6:30 tonight.

Yesterday, I was over with Jeanne and Dave.  Apparently, Dave's birthday was earlier in February.  Becky's birthday is today, in fact.  The dual-birthday celebration was last night.  

Cas may be starting to realize the upside of dating someone who is organized about gift-giving and keeping track of things like this.  I showed up at his place at the pre-appointed time with Becky's gift and a selection of cards to give.  We were going to pick up Dave's gift on the way.  As I was getting all ready for the evening and running all of the necessary errands, I saw a vehicle in front of me with a rather amusing bumper sticker.  It said. "If you're reading this, then at least you're not looking at your smartphone.  Thank you."

For a little snippet of irony, when I saw that sticker, I immediately pulled out my smartphone, looked at it long enough to open the camera app and took a photo.  Whatever the opposite of Mission Accomplished is, that's what the result of the sticker was.  Mission un-accomplished.  I was reading it and not looking at my phone, but it caused me to pull out my phone and use it to take a photo.  No worries- I was stopped at a red light when this all went down.  Here's the sticker...

Anyhow, that's all for now.  I think it's time to do one of two things- I'm either going to wrap up this evening super-early or get out a pencil and map out the lesson ideas I have to knock the evaluation crew's socks clean off their feet and into the washer.  The first option is sounding pretty appealing...