Its hot.

107 degrees. I just got nothing. Nothing to say. Too hot to think or do much of anything except wait for it to cool off. blech.

School meetings this week are getting me kind of ready for classes -

TAPPS meeting Tuesday (UIL for private/parochial schools).

Educators Trainings Wednesday and Thursday. Trying to work my way through Creation Regained by Albert Wolters before Wednesday. I'm taking notes just to try to follow his train of thought. Mostly I've got two pages of memorable one liners, without much connection between them going on in my brain. It is 107 degrees, remember.

Orientations next week and an SAT Prep class that bills itself as "The No Brainer Way to SAT Success". I know the class will be full of good information (that's available in prep books published by at least 5 different companies), but when these companies make statements like these:

• The four recurring tricks hidden in the answer choices
• How not to have to read the answer choices

And use the word "trick", well it just makes me think about diet pills. At some point you are going to have to put some effort into it, you can put some effort into learning tricks or you can put some effort into reviewing things you already know and practice taking the darned thing a few times. I know, there are those kids who are shooting for that 99.999th percentile and they are motivated enough to master these strategies... Ok, enough on that soapbox...

Got some tutoring things to look into...

Finished getting the schoolroom set up for another year. Lots of red, white and blue... maps, history card board set up, some posters that J. and I picked out together. I think we will be most happy in here when the weather gets cold and dreary. I could use some cold and dreary right now. The temperature is 107. Did I mention that?