Weather induced head cold

Woke up this morning feeling like crap. 

This weather has caught up with me. The heat wore me out and my sinuses are miserable. 

I called my boss and I said there is no way I can teach tonight, and I'll notify all my students. 

I texted the ones I could and emailed the other. So I did my Due Diligence. 

I am so tired. Just feeling worn out today. 

A Happy Woman's Life Book Page 103

A Happy Woman's Life Book Page 103

By Amulbunny   

October 22,2017

Outside my window… 81, sunny and windy

I am thinking…  Achy, tired and sore

I am thankful for…  food in the house

From the learning rooms …  I learn more every day

I can't believe . . .  we still have rats  

From the kitchen . . . maybe soup and a sandwich

I am wearing…  Tee shirt and shorts

I am creating . .  . Nothing today

I am going. . .  to go to bed early

I am reading. . . A Janet Daily trilogy

I am hoping…  the pain level drops

I am hearing…  Guardians 2 and dog looking for rat

Around the house… 2 dogs and boy and husband

One of my favorite things… Thanksgiving

A few plans for the rest of the week…

1.  Look for power points about essays

2.  Watch A. Malcolm again

3.  Endure the heat and wind

Here is a picture for thought I am sharing:

Baseball and an unexpected death

My daughter lives in another state. She decided several years ago that she was feeling stifled in CA. So we packed her up and moved her cross country. She lived with family friends, then a roommate, and now has her own place. She has a good job and they are pleased with her. She is close enough to walk to work and she does.

Friday she called me right before my class was to start and said "don't be alarmed if you get some alerts about a shooting in -XX"  where she lives and works. She said there was a shooting and she thought everything was ok. 

15 minutes later, while I'm talking about the new class, there's an urgent text message. Her friend, who was walking with her husband to the train to meet friends for dinner, was dead. She was shot through the face by some gang members who were aiming at a group of men standing near a store. Evidently, the aim of the shooter was poor, and he sprayed the bullets and several of them hit her friend. An automatic weapon. Took 1 life there and a half hour previously shot a 13-year-old boy, the same shooters. NO REGARD FOR ANYONE.  Yesterday about 11 miles from here, a 14-year-old was shot and killed. The newspaper didn't have much information. He was shot, paramedics came, took him to the hospital and he was DOA.  

Do the mothers of these young men know what they did that night? Do they know that owing allegiance to their gang, they went out and killed people? How do they live with themselves? Do they rationalize their moves? Do they high five each other and say, hey we got one of them tonight? 

Once many years ago I was trying to calm down a rowdy class, made primarily of young black men. I was at the end of my rope, and I asked them, would you treat your Mother or Grandmother with the same disrespect you seem to dole out to me daily? Why would you act like that towards me? I'm a mom and I can tell that my children would not dream of saying the things you're saying. That seemed to work, finally, they saw me as a person and not just a teacher. 

This is now a rant. 

There is no reason in the world for people to own automatic weapons. Las Vegas proves that, Orlando proves that, Sandy Hook proves that. 

BUT THE CHICKEN SHITS IN CONGRESS WHO ARE BEHOLDING TO THE NRA AND GUN MANUFACTURERS CAN'T SEE BEYOND THEIR WALLETS!NOT TO MENTION THE CHEETO WHO CHEERFULLY SMILES WHEN TALKING ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE. HE DOESN'T CARE. HE NEVER WILL. 

But you say, Bunny, people who hunt need powerful guns. Yeah, I know. Grew up with them. But they need a single shot rifle that will shoot one bullet at a time at game animals.If you shot a deer, elk, moose, bear or buffalo with an automatic gun, you'd tear up the insides and ruin the meat. What's the point of hunting if you don't get to use the meat? 

I'm done for now. 

bunny

A Happy Woman's Life Book Page 102

A Happy Woman's Life Book Page 102

By Amulbunny   

October 10,2017

Outside my window… 72, clear and windy

I am thinking…  Feeling better than before

I am thankful for…  fall coming soon

From the learning rooms …  10 new classes ahead

I can't believe . . .  what an ass Pence is.

From the kitchen . . . nothing sounds good today.

I am wearing…  Green Bay Packer tee shirt and shorts

I am creating . .  . The lesson plan for this Friday

I am going. . .  crazy but that’s normal

I am reading. . . the newest book by Follett

I am hoping…  my shoulder stops hurting a bit

I am hearing…  that damn bird screeching

Around the house… 2 dogs and boy

3 of my favorite things… steak, baked potatoes, green beans

A few plans for the rest of the week…

1.  Make a new folder for the new class

2.  Sort all my handouts for the class

3.  Take the cat food sample I got to Moms.

Here is a picture for thought I am sharing:

Fire season

There are fires burning in wine country and there are fires burning in Orange County. Both are devasting to watch. The wine country fires as of now have 13 dead, over 110 missing and nearly 1500 structures burned. Horrible.

Yesterday my son and I were driving out to campus to drop off the graded finals and the grade sheets and we went down the 405 to the 605. As we got closer to the 605 the sky darkened and smoke was in the air. My son said it looks like the end of the world. 4 miles later down the freeway and the sky is blue again. The wind was fierce. We got hit by a pine cone as we drove towards school because the trees were shaking. Last night the sky was pink with the smoke from the fires. It makes it very hard to breathe because of the particulates in the air.

Good news:
I'm teaching English this module. Have been getting handouts ready and am going to work very hard with this class. It will be 10 weeks and there will be a couple of weeks off. I am looking forward to it.

Life goes on, I worry about things that I can't control.

Peace
da bunny

A down day

This has been a pretty crappy few days.

I have a chest cold that doesn't want to end.

Last Friday, the 2nd to last class, only 2 students showed up. That was the night they were supposed to get their takehome finals. I had lots of stuff planned, videos, power points, and a lecture. We had an abbreviated class and I sent them home. I sent an email to the director of the school expressing my displeasure at the disrespect that was shown by none of them notifying me that they would be gone. It should be unsaid that common courtesy says you notify your teacher of your absence.

No reply. No nothing.I will go tomorrow. Collect their finals. Send them home. I will grade their finals, email them their grades, fill out the paperwork and walk away. I don't know if I'm going to teach for him again, I'd like to, but I'd be pretty vocal to the new class about notifications.

Yesterday a large table that my spouse put in front of a window fell over and it hit me. It was very painful. I took a muscle relaxer last night and slept ok, but now the pain is coming back. Why he couldn't take it out the garage is beyond me. That will be a project for this weekend. I don't need any more aches and pains, believe me.  

da bunny

To the victims of the 

horrific tragedy 

in 

Las Vegas

May you be escorted into paradise by flights of angels into the gates of heaven.

To those who were injured in the worst massacre in American history,

may your wounds be tended and may your recovery be eased.