A True Disappointment

Spring Break for teachers is like a little bit of heaven. It's the time to catch up on sleep, mark things off the To Do list, and for me...catch up on some light reading. We can do these things without having to worry about school, students, papers, etc.

This is how my Spring Break was SUPPOSED to go:

Monday-Wednesday: Shopping with mom, and Kilzing the kitchen
Thursday: Painting/Reading
Friday: Reading
Saturday: Reading
Sunday: Reading/Checking Papers

This is how my Spring Break ACTUALLY went:

Sunday-present: sick/blowing nose/throwing away Kleenex/Blowing nose
Monday-Wednesday: Mom was here. I shopped, but without enthusiasm/blow nose
Thursday: Slept/nose/trash/nose
Friday: Did finish 30 pages of a book
Saturday: see Thursday
Sunday: see Thursday

It really wasn't the fact that I was sick. It was that I got NOTHING done. The biggest disappointment was the fact that I brought home two books, bought six more, and didn't even crack a spine. Screw painting and shopping....I want to READ BOOKS!!! My average for the month is totally blown.

What Question would you ask God?

Okay, so my students can obviously tell that I read....a lot. Every day, in every class, we read for 15 minutes. I love this! This new schedule, where as with the old we only read one class period a week for 45 minutes, lets me read so much more. Last week, I read three books! That doesn't even count my at home books. Those were just my school books. It is crazy!
Anyway, the kids ask questions like: Have I always been a reader? Did I like to read when I was little? How many books have a read in my lifetime? Stuff like that.

A few days ago I had a conversation that went like this:

Student: How many books have you read?

Me: I don't know...a thousand.

Student: How many words do you think you have read?

Me: A billion?

Student: When I get to heaven, I am going to ask God how many words/books you have read in your lifetime?

Me: Soooo, when you walk up to the pearly gates, the first thing you say is going to be: Hey God! I had this crazy 8th grade English teacher who read all the time....how many words/books do you think she read?

Student: YES!


With just my ability to read, and read, I have moved my way up on someone's list...Waaaay up! I am the subject of the first question that they would ask God. :o)

LIFO/FIFO: Book Cirulation on my Night Stand

Many, many years ago...I went to college with the the goal of becoming an Accountant. A few months into that I found my brain, and changed my mind. Sooo to make up for my life without numbers, I married a CPA. I CAN have my cake and eat it too!
Anyway....My husband comes home most nights and talks about his day and spouts off acronyms like IFRS, SOX, 10Q's. Although these mean nothing to me, I do believe that I can apply the accounting world to my reading pastime/hobby/second job.

LIFO: Last in First Out
FIFO: First in First Out

My nightstand is currently holding at a minimum....twenty books. So the struggle to decide what to read next is quite daunting. Do I read the classic Wuthering Heights that I have been deciphering one page at a time? Do I read the next book club book? What about a book for school? Or one of the three others that I have started, and put down. AND then what happens when I buy a new book, because I can't walk into B&N without buying something...for the good of the economy, of course.

Here is where an accounting degree would have been handy.
Inventory Evaluation Methods.
In my current plan, I am using LIFO. Last in First Out. So, books I buy at BN...I read first, because it was the last one on the table... Books that are loaned to me...I read next. Book Club books follow (depending on the next club meeting) and then Wuthering Heights and the others fall to a dead last. In the forseeable future I have no plan to change my inventory method...unless the classics really begin calling my name or my accountant believes that it would be in my best interest to change.

Is this insanity to want to apply accounting methods to my life of books? Or even crazier to know and understand how they are applicable and get a big kick out of writing this blog? Almost to the point of serious out loud laughing!