This past week was incredibly EXHAUSTING. I started physical therapy to try to break up the calcium deposit in my right shoulder, so two afternoons were devoted to that. I went back to Phoenix in Harleysville -- the therapists are really good. However, I'm not used to going right from school to another activity, so I was really tired on those days.
On Wednesday afternoon, I drove down to Maris Grove for the quarterly meeting about my dad's care. We talked about the upcoming move and also about his sleepiness, which seems to be just another stage in his decline. I also had dinner at Iron Hill in Media with Nicole. We discussed the possibility of turning off Dad's pacemaker. In hindsight, getting him the pacemaker was probably the wrong thing to do - it just prolongs his really unfortunate quality of life. But what did we know? I read an article about the topic just after he had the surgery, but even if I had read it before, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have brought it up with my sisters...
In school, my kids were working on note cards and expanded outlines, both of which involve a lot of back and forth with each student, so every period was busy, busy, busy. That alone was pretty exhausting. Oh, and there were wretched benchmarks essays to grade - administration gives a "standardized" test, but guess who has to grade the essays!!
Yesterday, my fifth period made me laugh yet again. At the beginning of the period, this was the exchange between two rather eccentric students:
Student #1: I'm disappointed in the level of intelligence in the hallways.
Student #2: I'm disappointed in your lack of social skills.
I just shook my head...
Later in the period, I gave student #1, who is always raising his hand to comment with some random fact that has nothing to do with the discussion at hand, the opportunity to make a random comment of his choice.
Student #1: Searing meat sealing in the juices is a myth (He then went on to expound at length on this topic.)
Student #2: But you're talking about a vocab word we just discussed, so that's not random!
Student #1 then goes on a lengthy discourse about an interesting way in which ice is formed.
Student #2: But that's really the opposite of the vocab word we just discussed, so that's not random either! I guess you can't be discursive (yet another vocab word) on demand!
At that moment the bell rang....
I had to drop off paperwork at Barry Hayes auto body for my upcoming car repair - Progressive Insurance agreed that it was their client's fault for last week's accident in the Giant parking lot. Just another thing to remember... I met Nancy for dinner at the Joseph Ambler Inn -- I don't know what it is about that place, but every time it's been good, the next time we go, it's really bad. This time the bartender was really inattentive, chatting right in front of us with a just-arrived bartender -- and then walking to the other end of the bar -- all the while I was trying to get her attention because she hadn't brought the water we'd requested. Yikes!
Bob was in Canada two days this past week, so last night was really the first time in a while we could talk at length. He's traveled 3000 miles in seven days...wow!
I finished the Hunger Games trilogy and a David Sedaris book with corduroy and denim in the title; now I'm reading Imperium by Robert Harris - it's about Cicero.
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