Whew! A lot has transpired in the past few days....

This may wind up being a one year thing....if it lasts that long.

And it was inevitable I fear. Things were going too well.  Nothing serious has happened, nothing big...just a bunch of little things.

I've grown used to having chalkboards; first time since 1984.  Never mind that there is no pencil sharpened in my room and I have an antiquated projector mounted on a table and no smart board. If the bulb burns out, there are no replacement bulbs in the school.  The roaches I find in my classroom, some mornings, are big enough to put saddles on.  I have to sweep them up because if I don't the ants will come in and carry them away.  I've accepted that I am limited to 1500 copies.  They did give us consumable science books, but they are huge and heavy.

All that I have just kind of accepted in course.

But after a science meeting where the other sixth grade science teacher and I were subjected to the third degree by our science department chair, I am wondering about some things.  It was intense. Right now I feel a little hemmed in.  You see, the science test scores fell from last year and now there is a full court press on getting them back up.  She wants things done just so and I don't feel comfortable about that.

Not sure where to do with this.  Don't want to overreact.  I do that enough.

The solar eclipse was an inspiring event.  We watched on NASA TV.  We didn't have any of those eclipse  glasses and I didn't trust them no way.

They say they'll be another in 2024.

I am left to wonder if I will still be here. Yeah, I am to that stage in life where that's a wonder. I'd be 75.
















Meantime, back here in the USA, crazy is running amuck!

Trump held another campaign like rally in Phoenix and said and did some more crazy things, belittling the press.

Hitler did that.

There's more talk of alt right violence.  Truly, they aren't the only ones. I am hearing chatter from the radical left about the same thing.

Are we headed for another civil war, the kind with bullets? Each day that passes, there is more and more discussion of that.

Mad.  Utterly mad.







This is the way the world ends?  This is the way the world ends?  Pooofff, with both a bang and a whimper.....

How did we ever end up here?  How could we, as a nation, have become so delusional, so foolish? Wish I knew...