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New desks. Fear the productivity of this past weekend.

I SO earned next Monday off.

Today is work until 2, then an hour to myself, then "Writing and the Young Writer," one of my core teaching prep classes. I hear the teacher is the next best thing to useless, but she was the only possible choice. *shrug* I've dealt with bad teachers before.

Incidentally, one of my coworkers took algebra with Mr. Martinez at Sac City College (as I did), and even though she's hispanic and grew up with accented English speakers, she says she could never understand his accent, either. In fact, she related to me that she checked into it, and fewer than 10% of his students pass his class. I don't feel so stupid, now.

Self-mocking entry

I just joined the SCTA, which is the student division of the California Teachers Association. Now, this is a student organization, and it does not make me a teacher, or anything like that. I could easily become a teacher without joining it.

But it makes me happy that I did so. As does the knowledge that I'll be receiving CTA and NEA publications from now on (so my friend Sally can stop handing hers off to me). For I am a sad, sad man (my enemies need not post agreement).

Heh -- I just realized that this afternoon (after 5pm) I can look up how I did on the CBEST (though only on the math and reading sections; the writing section I won't find out about until 9/6), and my heart started pounding.

Query

A pair of skis was left at my place on Saturday. Anyone care to tell me what to do with them?

CBEST Scores

To pass the CBEST, you need a scaled score of 41 or higher in each section. The sections are scored from 20 to 80 points.

My reading score: 79
My math score: 56

Now all I need is to hear that I passed the writing section!

Viral Marketing for Serenity

These were posted in various places by "John Dowses" (which is an anagram of Joss Whedon, so you do the math). None of them are clips from the actual movie, but they definately act nicely to drum up interest.

Clip 1
Clip 2
Clip 3

Warning: Clip 2 is CREEPY.