Update

Last week was perhaps the longest week of my life! Thankfully it is over, and even more thankfully this week is spring break. Wahoo! I need it, the kids need it, or else one of us will kill the other one. It's a gamble as to who will make the first move.

That being said, there are only 30 more school days. It's kind of crazy to think that I've taught 150 days (well, okay, really only 147 because I've not been there for three). And, really, I only have to teach 25 more school days because I will be gone to ISEF for five days. Truthfully, though, planning lessons for a sub is almost more work than actually being there. Thankfully my bio kids will be taking the state core for two of the days. They are quite sad that I am abandoning them "in their time of need," but I feel okay about it.

I will be in New Mexico a month from now. I'm super excited, mostly because it will be my only vacation this summer (if the girls' thing doesn't work out), and because I'll be there with my favorite person (Dr. Gardner), and all of the other science fair folks. It will be a learning experience, and it will be interesting to be a chaperon for my three boys. I'm sure I'll have lots of adventures to talk about when I get back.

On Friday, I awoke at 3:30 in the morning scratching the heck out of my left hand. A week earlier I had a bee sting, but nothing really happened. So, I kind of panicked because, hello, it was one week later. So, I went to the doctor, and he said it wasn't unusual to have a reaction later on. He was also worried that I introduced an infection to my hand by scratching it so much. I left the doctor's office with an anti-histamine and an antibiotic. Yes, I am helping contribute to antibiotic resistance by taking an antibiotic when I probably don't need one.

This past week I found a new apartment. A girl in my ward named Tara called me and said she's getting kicked out of her apartment at the end of this month because the landlord is selling it, and she wanted to know if I'd like to get an apartment with her. I was leery at first because my roommate experience hasn't been the greatest, but I felt good about it and it's a go. Tara is super cute, social, outgoing, and willing to do her part around the apartment. She and I have actually had the same horrible roommate experiences, and we understand each other. The place we'll be living is actually a condo off of University Parkway and Geneva Road (away from all of the student housing). I'm excited about it, and it's time for a change anyway.

I think that's all for now. I hope you are all noticing the fantastic flowering plants around this time of year. Pyrus calleryana (Bradford Pear) is particularly beautiful and fragrant right now, as are all of the Malus spp. (crabapple) and Forsythia suspensa (forsythia--it's the big yellow bushes you're seeing around). Take a minute to look around you--the plants are awesome. Especially you, Jo, because they have some gorgeous stuff on campus.

Loves, etc.