rus vanwestervelt

Updated 11:29 p.m. Late start to this entry today, but I’m writing, and that’s all that matters right now. I cannot express what it’s like to be a high school teacher in these waning hours with the senior class. Tomorrow they’ll have their Farewell Assembly, and then on Tuesday evening of next week, they graduate. [...]

Updated 5:37 p.m. 5:37 p.m. I can’t believe how unrelenting this week has been at school. It’s Wednesday, and we’re midway through senior exams, high school assessments, senior recognition assemblies, and deadlines for myriad publications. Unrelenting. Tomorrow’s another long day/night, where an end to senior exams means an evening of awards and accolades. Everything builds [...]

Updated 12:47 a.m., 5/20! 5:34 a.m. Gooooooooooooooooood Morning Blogosphere! (spoken in the distinctive roar of Adrian Kronauer from Good Morning, Vietnam) I begin with such an opening because I finally found the soundtrack to this movie on eBay, and I will be buying it later this evening. I’ve been looking for it for a few [...]

Updated 9:18 p.m. 6:06 a.m. Wow. What a difference a few hours make.I was able to get to sleep before midnight, which is an accomplishment any evening, especially on Sundays. However, it wasn’t long after Amy and I dozed off that both Madelyn and Braeden awoke–and they never really got back to sleep all night. [...]

Updated 5:45 p.m. 7:31 a.m. Good morning…It’s off to the gym in a few minutes, then back home to grade papers before we head out to Full Moon Farm for Madelyn’s riding lesson. It is a calm morning, where the rains have lifted long enough to allow the birdsongs to bring life in the Goucher [...]

Final update: 10:55 p.m. Awoke at 5:11 a.m. to make sure I had time to write, which I took full advantage of. This is what a typical morning is like for me when I’m able to get up early enough. I can only hope that getting in better shape (first workout today!) will give me [...]

I did a dry run today of the photo aspect of my3*6*5, and I’m realizing already that the logistics for uploading the photos are extremely simple. I did not think this, though, as I pondered actually doing it. Really….not a big deal at all. I was dreading all of the little steps that seemed like [...]