Gotta Get Down On Fri-daeyyy

A heat wave?!?!?

Our apartment has some fantastic central air.  But everywhere else that I go?  Sticky and yucky and gross!

To day I went for a meeting at Central Schools to collect materials necessary to being a teacher in Brockton!  I feel as though a good measure of weight has been lifted off me.  I have been so very anxious about how to approach teaching ELA, and this meeting has gone a long way in making me relax, de-stress, and begin to feel productive, rather than overwhelmed.

I was given many "bibles".  A Vocabulary bible, a poetry bible, a non-fiction writing bible, a curriculum bible, and the biggest of all: The MCAS bible.  Sad that the MCAS bible was bigger than the entire curriculum bible.  But I'm a resource whore!  Give me materials upon materials, I can't get enough!!  I'm the type to salivate over well-stocked bookshelves; and I ADORE reference materials.

So now the trouble is that I have my 'starting kit' and nowhere to start!  I mean literally.  I have no physical space, no 'office space' as it were.  I realize that I need to get organized in a major, major way, and am committed to doing it.  But getting that ball rolling?  Sheesh.

I mentioned before, I think, that Aaron has planned to design and build this fabulous workstation for me.  It really is something awesome.  It will be a desk\kitchen island.  See, I will have a desk, and file space and a good size surface area, too, just for me, and THEN when company is coming over or we need a surface for kitchen work or other such things, well, instead of being left with the unenviable task of clearing off my desk (a miserable prospect, as I know I will almost always be Mid-project and will have papers stacked in certain ways and have materials strewn about!)  Well, there is a HINGED island top that flips up and into place and conceals my desk and all it's messy glory beneath.

It will be fabulous.  It will be GREEN (painted, not especially eco-friendly, though of course we strive for that in all projects...)!  It will be a high bar-top type kitchen island and a regular height desk.  It is brills.  Like a secretary desk or a roll top in the way it conceals my chaos, but so much better because it is FUNCTIONAL while closed, not merely decorative.

Now the trouble is getting it built.  We have SO LITTLE TIME!  And we also have another few critical projects to complete; The secret wardrobe\door\bookcase.  The Craft Loft.  Then the Tetris Shelves and the Couch re-upholstery!  So much to do, so little time, so little funding.

I've said it before, and others echo my chorus: If only I could clone Aaron.  Cloning me would be less useful.  And having more than one Aaron around the house would be ideal for some fun nocturnal activities too ;)

Anyway.  Now I'm hot under the collar as well as hot everywhere else!  Stay cool, stay hydrated, stay well :)

Dinner at my parents' tonight, but good news: it's take-out!