Currently reading, GAMES, lesson plans, good news!

I'm reading Alas, Babylon and it's AMAZING! I started yesterday and I'm well past 100 pages...about halfway through the book already. It's so good. I like how cinematic it is. I think it would make a great movie and it could probably be adapted into a pretty good stage play (at least so far). I am thoroughly enjoying it.

I'm also reading The Freedom Writers Diary still. It's very good, but a little slow going for me. I understand and appreciate the need to respect the privacy of the writers, but I wish they had been identified with pseudonyms or something. I'm not trying to connect to characters from the movie, but I think it would follow better if I knew, for example, that Diaries 13 and 34 were written by the same person. I'm having a bit of a hard time following it and staying engaged. But I'm getting through it bit by bit.

I picked up a copy of GAMES magazine today. I LOVE this little puzzle and game magazine. I remember Daddy getting it when I was little and solving all the hard puzzles in just a few days. I don't know if this is a romanticized version of what really happened or not, but this has always been my favorite magazine. I have had a subscription to it before, but I don't currently because it's kind of expensive. I wanted the new one to take to the mountains this weekend as a diversion. Yay!

The previous post on Incantation by Alice Hoffman (which I'm taking to Greensboro for Mom to try) developed into the beginnings of a unit plan. It's something I'd like to try with an afterschool group, I think. Maybe I can volunteer with ACES if I teach at a middle school next year and go once a week to work with a group of girls and hammer out this idea of mine.

Finally, good news from the teaching portion of my life! My husband accepted a job in Greensboro! We are moving back! I am so excited. Greenville has been good to us, but I'm ready to go back closer to family and friends. Durham was the other option and it would've been good too, but I can't express how happy the idea of living in Greensboro makes me. We are going to live in the house where I grew up for awhile, which is another plus. I started making some phone calls today and the people I talked to were enthusiastic and supportive. I don't think finding a job will be the desperate struggle is has been the past two years. Which, for that matter, it wouldn't have been here either because I already had to turn down one job opportunity here after I found out for sure we were moving. Hooray! :)