It's Official

All 4 of the new teachers to this campus/school will be gone at the end of the year. Two last year and two this year. This is a difficult staff and campus/school to integrate. This year I felt like I finally making some headway.

I used to live in Vallejo in 77 for a year. At that time I subbed in the Vallejo and Benicia public schools. One of the Vallejo schools, The kids set a fire in the trash can. Fortunately it was raining so I ran to the end of the hall and dragged the big trash can out in the rain. Probably left a good opportunity to take my wallet. After school that day when the kids left the history class I was in and had been asked to fill in until the end of the year I was sitting at the teachers desk with my hands covering my face when a kid tried to climb in the window from the outside!. No way. I took other schools but never that one again.

I tell you this because a little further up the road nearer to Benicia and Fairfield where I used to attend Community College there is an English teaching position
posted for next year.

When I got home last night I discovered Lacey had thrown up on the bed. I put on a new cotton sheet because it was so hot and washed the bedspread. Then I did a load with the sheet. I need to get her settled on the new food. It does not make me happy to be cleaning up puke before school or after. Since I don't go into the living room every day I sometimes don't discover her deposit until it's had a chance to dry. One time she left some poop on the bathroom rug. I don't know what that was about. Maybe I wasn't scooping her waste out of the clumping litter fast enough or the liner also needed to be changed.

The weather changed again from very hot yesterday to cool. The fog rolled in again and the temps are back in the 60's.

How much of a carbon footprint do you leave. With garbage the size of Texas floating in the Pacific it makes me want to use my canvas bags in the supermarket. Besides, they are more sturdy. Like San Francisco, San Jose is contemplating charging for plastic bags .5 cents per bag. It takes more processing to make a paper bag. I ask for paper in plastic so they double as my trash bags. If they charge I will go to using cloth. I do now on occasion. I certainly have enough bags. Sometimes they are filled with other stuff though. That's why I only have a few in the car. I also ask baggers to bag heavy. Use the bag up. I need to turn down my water heater too.

We got a huge shipment of books to catalog. I am having the kids help stamp and barcode but some cant put the labels in the right place or stamp the right side up.
A lot of books and cataloging




I could rent my house out here.