Still no point
I didn’t bother to write yesterday because I was in such a bad mood and the day was so meaningless that there didn’t seem to be any point.
I’m not sure there’s any point in writing today either.
Yesterday I never even had the chance to teach. The whole day was testing and meetings. Mostly meetings. And of course the parent of the obstreperous child I’d been testing didn’t show up for the meeting, No surprise there I suppose.
I feel as if this has been the endless week. I have been absolutely exhausted each morning, and my first waking thought has been, "What time can I go back to bed?" Pretty sad.
Even sadder is the fact that the conversations in the teacher’s room all sound like that thought. I’m beginning to think that there is some sort of headache and exhaustion flu going around our building, as that seems to be the most common topic these days.
The cat is still sick off and on. I was up at two a.m. cleaning carpets last night. Then of course I couldn’t totally fall back to sleep. Which could explain the exhaustion.
It’s a worry and very draining.
So I ended up turning on the television and watching "The View" at 2:30. That’s a good show, and that’s a stupid time for them to air it. I think the local Boston channel airs Sally Jesse instead. How stupid is that? I hate those "confess your sins and air your dirty laundry in front of the world" talk shows. It’s the surest thing to make me turn to HGTV or put on a video.
Speaking of videos, I keep watching "You’ve Got Mail" over and over these evenings. I can recite the dialogue but I keep watching.
I’m sure that means something, but I’m not sure what.
it might indicate that I’m lonely and depressed these days and that movie makes me forget all that.
Or not.
Time for bed.
Listening to: Pippin
Reading: Once Upon A Star Nora Roberts
Weather: 20, sunny
Trivia: How does the Earth lose water?
Every day, more than 1,000 gallons of water are lost into space from the top of Earth's atmosphere. Most of the water is lost near the magnetic poles, where charged particles from the Sun split water molecules into electrically charged hydrogen and oxygen ions. The charged ions move in paths that follow the lines of Earth's magnetic field. Since that field points straight up near the poles, they can escape there. The amount lost can be much larger during solar storms when the solar wind becomes more powerful. If Earth had no magnetic field, the amount lost would be far greater and the oceans would have evaporated millions of years ago. Scientists suspect that a similar mechanism might have removed water from the atmospheres of Mars and Venus, both very dry planets today.
Cool word: solstice [n. SOL-stis]
In every year, there are two solstices. The June solstice happens when the Earth's north pole is tilted its maximum amount towards the Sun. The December solstice happens when the north pole is most tilted away from the Sun. In the north, the June solstice is the day with the most sunshine, and the December solstice has the longest night. The word came into Middle English from Old French, from the Latin solstitium. That's a compound of sol- (sun) and -stitium (a stoppage), so the root means "the Sun stands still," reflecting the time when the Sun stops moving north or south and begins moving in the opposite direction. In each year, there is also an equinox [n. EH-kwuh-noks] in March and another in September. These days are the times when the night is as
long as the day. This is reflected in the word's Latin root, aequinoctium, from aequi- (equal) and nox (night).
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