Today I had a long prep period and a long talk with a student who has run away from home.
Today we finished reading Othello in class, and the students acted out the last scene.
Today the sun came out for a while.

I presented “Multicultural Science Teaching Strategies” to science teachers around the district….and got paid for it!
I had a double Americano from Uptown Espresso.
I got my order of new products from Mary Kay, as well as my online order from Old Navy.

We walked in the rain to a nearby Pho noodle restaurant and shared tea and lemon wafer crackers while we waited for our food.
We ate take-out in front of the fireplace while watching the rest of Syriana.
We sloppily slurping our soup with noodles, beef brisket, lime, Thai basil, sprouts, jalapeno, and cilantro.

Lesley and I fawned over cute overload, looked at her jewelry creations, and inspected my new MK products–thoroughly girly things to do, I know.

Today was a satisfying day, and even though my house is kind of a mess and all of my papers aren’t graded, I will rest tonight and be happy that I am able to do all of these wonderful, beautiful, simple things*.

*caution: weasel words present!