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The best after-Quinn part of each evening at our house is when Andy zips over to Wendy's and gets us big drinks. He has a Diet Coke and I have an iced tea with lemon. It's like a reward for making it to 8:00 p.m. each day.

I love you, Wendy's iced tea with lemon.

I'm having a really great time at school. None of my students are trouble, the day goes smoothly, and the work load is bearable. I spent about 5 hours down in our basement yesterday doing planning, which is the hardest part of the job intellectually, I think. But it makes such a difference to have weeks and weeks of classes planned....it makes the job so much more enjoyable.

Another good thing about school is bumping into the best teacher I never had, Brother Tom. I wish I could take one of his classes. From what Erin has told me, and from what I've seen on his web site and heard from his own self, he's the best in the west.

I'm sure he was pleased when he entered our department meeting this afternoon to me bellowing, to the tune of Elton John's "Daniel's Song", "THOMAS MY BROTHER! YOU ARE...OLDER THAN ME!" Because I'm all kinds of classy in official meetings. I told the department chair that I was unaccustomed to being in such a professional setting and may make inappropriate noises or remarks.

Anyway.

The teacher I'm subbing for isn't having her surgery until October 7 (it was supposed to be a week ago) so my stay at school is looking to be longer than I first thought. I talked to my assistant principal today and even though I could stop at the quarter break (in about 3 weeks) or even stop teaching English and just teach journalism in the afternoon, I think I want to finish the whole thing out. And stay as long as they need me.

For one, I am doing this not only for money, but to help someone battling a serious illness. I'm probably not going to go on any breast cancer walks anytime soon, but in doing this job and in doing it to the best of my ability I am directly helping someone who is suffering from this disease.

And for another, yeah...the money part helps too. Especially with Quinn's birthday and the holidays coming up.

All this means I have to figure out what to do with Quinn during the days that she isn't in school...my mom can't watch her forever, and I don't want her to. I am fully planning on returning to my job as a stay-at-home mom as soon as this episode is over, but until then she's going to have to ... go ... somewhere. But where?

Posted by Amy at September 27, 2004 08:46 PM