Heritage pics

As busy and swamped I've been this past year and as much as I LOVE LOVE LOVE and APPRECIATE Spring Break, I miss my students. I send them the lyrics to "Brand New Colony" last night via the homework message on our school website.

Here are some pictures of the school. I sent them to our pen pals at Palo Alto High School recently:
The building is less than a year old.





Here's the view from the corner of the school at
Broadway Ave. & 101st.
Sometimes I have supervision here in the morning:









This is a view of the building
from the corner of Broadway & 101st.
Pretty, isn't it?

There is only an upstairs and downstairs hallway in our building & 500 students in total. I teach 160 sophomores.









Period 4









Some Period 4 boys. Adorable.









Some adorable Period 3 kids. My student teacher lent the kid on the right Tortilla Curtain & Catcher in the Rye, & he loved them! Then he transferred. :(









We're about six exits south of USC, so I hope on the 110 to get to class.

Robby is finishing his dissertation today! After reading some edits from a psychology colleague about his psycho-physiology data & after a talk with Omi, he will read the dissertation once through and send it to his committee members. He is very intent on completing it today.

I'm revising Chapter 2, which is getting longer and longer. But I am thinking about cutting one section of it. I have to complete most of Chapter 1 today. I think that our group is behind the other dissertation groups, but I think we doing a more thorough thinking job. I'm glad my committee chair isn't a dissertation-cranking machine. I want to write about something I care about.

I'll talk about my diss later.

Atticus is up & humming in his crib. He chills in his crib after a 6 o'clock bottle. Sometimes he goes back to sleep. With my being at the computer in the morning, he is usually unlikely to go back to sleep. He LOVES being outside, loves to explore the sidewalk. He'll pick up twigs and dried berries, touch all the leaves and tree trunks.

I should start my morning work now.

Ciao!