Saturday, February 09, 2008

A List

These things happened today:

5 - hit snooze three times,
5:30 - shower, coffee, grading, no time for creative writing today,
6:30 - wake the kids up and start beating the drum: to the bus, to the bus...
7:30 - kids on bus, cram stuff in bag and race to school
8 - meet with Joe about his Senior Thesis Screenplay,
9 - teach media class about genre & ideology,
10 - mtg. to plan dept. chapel by Wed.,
11 - teach media class about genre & ideology (wait, have we been here before? a hundred times?),
12 - meet with Alyssa to find a communication theory to deconstruct U2charist
1 - teach speech class about listening,
2 - workout,
3 - race to post office to get family passports,
4 - back to office to pack up, then back home,
5 - go with family to El Rincon for dinner,
6 - go to see Timken High School Basketball Team post their 16th win (undefeated, and they haven't had a season this winning in more than 20 years) with the Bodenschatzes,
9:30 - cram kids into bed,
10 - review day with Lynn,
10:30 - chat with JBLeon,
11 - read four pages of The WOW Factor & drift into bizarre intertextual dreams, half lodged in the pages and half lodged in my creative subconscious.

Do we make our lists or do our lists make us?