Let us go then, you and I.

I had a really happy song to post with this but then I thought, 'Ah, screw it' and put this one up instead because I LIKE IT. Listen to it. Now. Please?

I'm almost on my way to Korea! The countdown has dropped to days (not weeks) and then I'll be flying for days (not weeks) and then staying for weeks (not days) and did I mention it's monsoon season? That's going to be fun. One of the first items on the agenda of mine will be to go and done get my hair done did 'cause it's going to need some permanent straightening and then I'll always wake up with fabulous, glamorous, not wavy hair. Excitement pervades my very being, ya'll.

On a separate note, I can't believe it's already July. School starts soon and then I'll be all stressed and not sleep a lot and drink tons of coffee and think about the Crucible and the Transcendentalists and the Lovesong of Alfred J. Prufrock and the Harlem Renaissance and whoa. What the heck, that sounds awesome, I'm going to stop complaining now. I probably shouldn't say this just in case a student reads the next few words, but I live life dangerously so here goes.

My class next year will be more rigorous and more exacting than this year. I required so much more out of my kids this year and they met and exceeded so many of those expectations that I couldn't in good conscience not expect more this coming school year. Yes, it's more work for me and yes, that idea is daunting because I worked a heckofa lot last year and this year will have more responsibilities in store for me in addition to my English classes but asfihodsigh, it makes it all worthwhile at the end of the year when you see how much the students have learned and improved. Okay, the sappy teaching moment is over.

Other than that, things are goooood.