Adteacher

We are officially now 3/4 of the way through the 2011-2012 school year. Seniors are now at the point where the "senioritis" is beginning to show its face. Most of the reason for this is the warmer weather. They now sense that it is nearing summertime, and that means college is nearly within their grasp. For a few, that is tremendously exciting. For most, it is slightly intimidating. They ask questions like "am I ready?" or "oh my gosh, how can I get more money at the last minute?" or "will I pass the last courses I need to graduate?" and they begin to feel the inevitable joy-killer at the end of the senior year...STRESS. For adults, this may seem kind of silly. After all, having successfully passed through these years, they know that it isn't as dramatic as it may seem to these students - but when you are at the age of 17 or 18, it is very stressful. This is the time of the year when social stress and performance stress seem to collide l...

Thank goodness I am back at school. This past weekend was one of those very strange times when I felt like it started strange and kept getting stranger as the weekend went on. The way the weekend started, I should have known that I was gonna have a weird weekend. I had dinner at one of my regular favorite spots, Norma's Cafe. I thought it would be nice to have "breakfast for dinner" with a nice cup of coffee and some quiet time to sit in the booth and play "Words with Friends" and have some light conversation with my husband. It started that way, but it certainly ended differently. To make a long story tolerable, suffice it to say that I was "trapped" by the ABC show "What Would You Do?" http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/ The scenario we were placed in was this: We were sitting in the booth and in walked a couple who were on a pleasant date. The man happened to be black, the young lady he was with - white. I didn't even notice th...