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I feel like crap, and have for the past few days. Just a cold … a cough and a lot of thick snot. Kim and Alex seem to be coming down with the flu Amanda and Jacob had before Christmas; that’s probably in the future for me and Sara, too. Still, I had to go…

Has somebody gone and shortened the number of hours in a day? I swear there hasn’t been 24 hours in the past few days. So much to do, so little time for doing it! I’ve got three magazine articles to write, three lesson plans to write (yes, still!), a comic book script to finish and…

Well, yesterday was my last day teaching in Moore. It was also my last day of a five-day assignment teaching English at Westmoore High School. It was an interesting five days. I gave the End of Instruction test to a remedial group of juniors on Tuesday, then the semester test to English II students yesterday.…

My decision to leave ODOT and spend a semester working as a substitute teacher in Moore and Oklahoma City seems to have paid off. This morning I was offered a job teaching English at Western Heights High School, the high school of a small district within OKC. This is a new position at the school;…

Been a busy few days. I had magazine articles due (still have two to do), then a human resources newsletter yesterday. Here in a minute I have to send a press release about my upcoming signing (see below), and I’m sure there’s some HWA or Horror World something or other I need to do. Actually,…

Poor Jacob. He’s had a lingering cough for a long time now. The other day he started getting sick again, so yesterday I took him to see the doc. Early stage of pneumonia. So, he’s on a lot of dope. Right now he’s not acting much better, but he was up at 4:30 a.m. and…

On Tuesday we had temperatures of about 75 degrees F. Yesterday the temperature dropped into the 20s and brought sleet as night came on. Schools all over the state closed for today. Late this morning the snow moved in and it’s been coming down pretty hard ever since. Well, I assume it has, based on…

Yesterday, me and Amanda (age 6) went to the Oklahoma City Art Museum to catch the last weekend of Temples and Tombs, an Egyptian exhibit on loan from The British Museum. Mandy is a chatterbox, always talking about something. She asked repeatedly if the museum would have dinosaurs, like the Sam Noble Natural History Museum…

This morning I finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I long ago lost count of the number of times I’ve read this book. To my mind, it is one of the best pieces of literature ever written in America. It is far superior to the other novel about racism often taught in schools, Mark Twain’s…

I’m sure my old buddy Jana was happy to see Texas A&M beat Texas yesterday, seeing as how she’s an Aggie alum. But what really made it sweet was when the Soones squeaked by Oklahoma State today to earn a spot in the Big 12 Chamionship Game against our old rival, the Nebraska Cornholers. Err,…