this is going to sound like the most lame thing you may have ever read, but what the hell is up with the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince? I mean seriously i stayed up far too late last night to finish reading this book which i've been slugging through for the past month and a half and when i was finished i felt drained and couldn't sleep because of sheer disappointment.
i hate it when books get to me like this. i tell my students all the time that the imagination is much more powerful than simply watching a story play out on a screen but damn it i hate being left on the hook like this. i felt the same way when i finished Fellowship of the Ring (movie) for the first time...left wanting more. j.k. rowling certainly knows how to sell more books...too bad there won't be another one to sell for another year and a half.

i guess what i'm saying is that you should take the time to read this series if you haven't.

apart from that little drama however life is excellent. friday night was an interesting experience. I got roped into chaperoning a jr. high dance. not roped really, more like volunteered to help out a good friend. it's been at least 6 years since i've been in the climate that is a jr. high dance and i had forgotten that the major goal for 90 percent of the student there is to not dance, but to hang out and listen to music that is impossible to dance to...well most of it anyhow. the other thing that really caught my attention was not the girl/boy dancing (2 inch rule strictly enforced), but the girl/girl dancing. can someone tell me what the hell the lesbians in training are up to? i'm not kidding. these 13-14 year olds (at the max) were grinding on each other like i've never seen. i had to laugh because they were taking about this phenomenon happening at the clubs in scottsdale, but at a jr. high dance....DAMN.

so that has made up my weekend thus far, pretty lame. today i can only hope to gain solace when my colts take control of the AFC south.