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Here is a really cool article about some inner city at risk high school kids who build this high performance sports car that goes 0-60 in less than five seconds and gets 50 miles per gallon. I don’t understand why some high school kids can do this and some car companies can’t.

I’ve been sick, my husband has been working late, and I’m covered up with school work so we went to Taco Bell. I haven’t been there in a long time since I decided not to eat out this year. I really love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there I always wish I worked there. Taco Bell is my favorite.

Why are maraschino cherries so special? I’ve mentioned before that Friday is family fun night and last week I made ice cream Sundays with brownies and bananas and hot fudge and cherries on top. The cherries don’t really taste that great, but they are very red and shiny. I think that’s what is so appealing.

Tuesday is Dare To Be You night. We had to stay late for a board meeting after the class so the kids were cranky and I suppose I was too. They were in the back of the van just really digging at each other and I said that they were being cruel and petty toward each other. Then I said that I didn’t know what to do about their attitudes. My five year old piped up with his plan for improving child behavior which is more ice cream with cherries on top. He might have something here so I told them that we would have this special desert on family fun night every week when they were good to each other. The catch is that when they were not good to each other during the week they would have to eat sauerkraut. They did great this past week and we had ice cream with cherries. But after ice cream they were playing games and started fighting so I opened the kraut. They’ve been pretty good since then.

I working on a research paper that was due yesterday. I can’t believe that I’m not done yet! Only two weeks left of school and one of those weeks will be finals. I’m so happy to be done with this semester. I almost have my summer schedule worked out. I want to take either 11 hours in July and 21 in the fall or 7 in July and 25 in the fall. Either plan makes me worry that I can’t do it all, but the then I would have three AA degrees in December and just have two blocks and student teaching left. I think I’ll do the 11 and 21, then I’ll just be torturing myself for a month and the fall might feel not so bad.

I miss everyone here. I get to look in every once in a while and read the blogs, but I end up not commenting on many of them for some reason. Sometimes I write a comment and then clear it out. I don’t know what’s in to me.