Saturday, March 29, 2008

Three Beautiful Things 03/29/08: Ready for Spring, Slot Play, School Days

1. I finally finished my course calendars and each syllabus for my spring courses. I'm not teaching any of my courses the way I have in the past and it took a lot of concentration and imagination to figure out how to proceed this spring. I'm relieved. Figuring out these courses has weighed heavily on my mind ever since I got winter term grades submitted on Tuesday.

2. Having finished my calendars, I went on spring break this afternoon and drove with Snug to the Three Rivers casino near Florence and played and played and played and came out twenty bucks ahead. Things were hopping, especially when the karaoke contest started and it felt good to be in a place buzzing with so much fun.

3. I went to Silver King Elementary my first two years of school. Ponderosa Pinings posted a picture of our second grade class on her blog and today Wucky sent me pictures of each of his Silver King classes, minus the third grade. That was the year of a big strike at the Bunker Hill and his dad went to Wyoming to work until the strike ended. These pictures stir a lot of memory and feeling in me.

2 comments:

myrtle beached whale said...

I went through a bunch of old photos to scan some for my kids and found those old school photos. It was fun to look at them. I am glad you enjoyed them too. It is hard to believe that some of them were nearly 50 years old.

Christy Woolum said...

It would be great to see the pictues. I'll bet you recognized many of the students. You'll have to send me your spring quarter schedule.