The Flu Hits and an update

Donna called last night to tell me that Joey was down with the flu. When I arrived home he was severely suffering. I went into his room just to say "hi". Donna and I are trying to remember to wash our hands and are longing to get a flu shot. "They should be ready early next week." I heard on the news today. That is too far away.

A meeting in Santa Clara all weekend, Sunday Donna and I went to hardly strictly bluegrass. Monday, I can hardly remember. But Tuesday, sixth period- our principal, Chris knocked on my door of my room to watch me teach I think. The class was very quiet because they were taking a test. This is my very difficult group with no fewer than 6 major behavior problems. He didn't come back, but I wonder if he has heard anything about them.

During the day between classes I was dealing with this class cap problem, aforementioned in my last blog. We think that it has been resolved. Bill, the mouth, wants to be included in the Rep Council emails. Helen said that I should look at past practice and I did. Past practice is the Rep Council is notified and as the courtesy, the head of the negotiating team. That leaves Bill out. But because I don't want a fight, I included him.

Susan, the VP and I were getting the agenda together for the Rep Council meeting on Thursday. I get a call from my retirement counselor to arrange a meeting for my neglected retirement details. The big question: "Will I get service credit for a teaching job that I had more than thrity years ago?" Then I got a call from Donna that Ben, the swing/ gypsy guitar player had called to get together. Saturday morning was his best time and ordinarily a good time for me, except for a CTA meeting from 9 AM till 2 PM this week. I missed my moment to call him back.

Also another meeting to look forward to tonight- My escape was a new Italian class that I am taking. This is an Italian class that I can relate too. I am the only male. And they pour wine and eat biscotti. "A little wine loosens the tongue." This is an Italian quote. Except for this week we will have a access to some good Italian wines to loosen our tongues. We practiced spitting our "gli" in class. I loved it. I have a couple of layers of French and Russian to dig through to bring Italian back to forfront. Marche here I come.