dear readers,
so i ran an 8k yesterday (that’s 4.8 miles for ye non-europeans and non-runners:)

i caught an old guy near the end – then he burst ahead of me – and then he collasped at the finish – and they told us to keep moving (well, it was just the two of us – small race – i promise we weren’t the very last ones:) but people with a job LOVE to issue orders – so they said “keep moving”) – so i went on and ripped my number tag off to go find momma – and the old guy raised his head enough to say “i was ahead of him” – i mean, like it was important and like i needed to follow him home so that he felt ahead the rest of the day… grrr… old people…

other than that marring, and leaving my nook home, it was a wonderful day in the state yesterday – unless you were at auburn – but who goes there anyway…

“how children succeed” by paul tough – wonderful book – i culled plenty of notes to use in class – what i liked most was the chapter on middle school – because the author’s case study was a 30-year-old punk teacher in the bronx who criticizes her chess team constantly – blogs incessantly – worries that she gets it all wrong – and the team superachieves – apparently, telling kids how “wonderful” they are isn’t always the best thing – sometimes, research apparently shows that it’s good to slap them around (okay, metaphorically – sigh…)

i’m now on a superlong book about lady bird johnson – please look up who she is before telling me i shouldn’t read about people named after birds – i’m rather excited about the book for several reasons – probably the primary one just that i’m very weak on female biographies – there aren’t as many of them as men – particularly when much of your reading is football/soccer/running biographies:)

(i do stay away from teacher biographies – because lots of times, those are about women and how much they “love” the kids:)

hope your week is a good one – ye nanowrimo people, have fun

sincerely,

mafeld