Sorry for the delay

Hello again,

What can I say? The past month flew by and now it is November. The past few weeks have been absolutely crazy. My long-term sub position is over halfway done. I had conferences the last 2 weeks. Tuesday and Thursday and then Tuesday. Needless to say they ended up being very long days. get to school around 630am and leave around 7pm. It was very fun meeting all the different families. They all went very well too. I think the best part was that the families viewed me as a teacher and not a sub. They actually took what I had to say about their child as legitimate. It was an experience that I will be able to put to use in my quest for a full-time position.

I have been pondering the ideal grade that I would enjoy teaching. So far I have taught (taught being longer than 1 month) 2nd grade and 4th grade. I am thinking I need a middle school long-term sub position to really nail down where I would like to end up. As of late I have been leaning more toward the older population because they can do more higher-order thinking and more in-depth projects. I do enjoy teaching the younglings, but I think I may be better suited for grades 3 and above.

Onto another subject! Cyclocross racing. That sport is fun. I love it. I did the Velo Cx race up in Blaine last Saturday with Mr. Jones. We did the cat 4 race together. I did it on my single speed crosscheck. I don't think I could own a bike that is more fun than that (ok, maybe I could but that's neither here nor there). The race was hard, but the course was very nice. We started in a pack of about 20ish? I am not totally sure on the numbers, but I started somewhere in the middle. Needless to say my starting position wasn't the greatest, but I just kept picking my way thought the crowd. There was a pack of about 4 or 5 guys that were stupid fast so catching them was out of the question. There was 3 guys in front of me that I was chasing hard to catch, but eventually the just kept pulling away and at that time I was in no-mans land. Either way I think I finished well and had a great time (did not crash this time either). They had free beer after the race and beer is always good after a race.

Well, for now that is all I have to say. I will put up another post soon. In the meantime I leave you all with this message: VOTE NO
Vote no for the marriage amendment and vote no for the voter ID law.
also: Go Obama!