The New Year

I am still unable to put up pictures, but here's a quick rundown of my sleep schedule for the last week. Why? Because I find it to be HILARIOUS.

Around here, we call it "getting our hours backwards," or simply, "Eskimo time." Since there's only two hours of daylight anyway, it doesn't really matter when one is up. I also worked at the kitchen from 7 pm until the games ended, sometimes around 1 am. Then came clean-up. A week of that would get anyone off. The problem now is getting back on.

A large number of the kids came to school today, having not slept all night. This should be fun.

Thursday Night: Didn't sleep. Slept from 10 am (the alarm went off) until 6 pm.

Friday Night: Midnight -2 am. Gave kids back I was baby-sitting. 2 am -10 am. Called in to church. Found out I was a day early.

Saturday: In bed by 2 am. Slept until 4. Got up until 8. Slept from 8 am - 5 pm.

Monday Night: 10 pm to 4 am. Got up and worked on my online class. Came over to school at 7:30.

The plan is to wear myself out today, and go to bed at a reasonable time, like 11, and sleep for nine hours. Wish me luck.

Sunshine, like 2 Liter bottles of Mountain Dew, is not available in Shishmaref

It's currently 1:10, I just took a picture of the sun peeking over the horizon, and would love to share it with you, except that I still can't make photo's work on here.

Copenhagen

Funding went through. I'm leaving on Thursday after school and taking two girls to Copenhagen with me for the climate change talks. Obama will be there.

My Intense Love/Hate relationship with my computer.

You may have noticed a lack of pictures on the blog lately. That's because I can't post them anymore. Also, I can't use the top row of letters on my keyboard, so I have a white plastic keyboard plugged in. Also, it rejects every disk I put into it at least six times.

There are also some red lines that keep showing up on the screen.

I don't think I've had this laptop very long. I can't really remember when I got it. It's maybe three years old. I did find out that the other teacher with this same brand is also having problems. In that her computer won't turn on. If that happens to me, I'm screwed. All of my presets are on this one, and my research for my masters class, and my student grades, and a lot of music. I think I'll go back some of this up on the server. Couldn't hurt.

Ugh. The bush.

Like a responsible coach, I ordered new uniforms for my team two months before I needed them. Two weeks before I needed them, I e-mailed the company to ask where they were.

Today, FOUR DAYS BEFORE WE LEAVE, the school got a phone call from the company, letting us know that they never sent them, since our school address and the district address (on the check) are not the same.

Did they tell us this two months ago, or two weeks ago? No, they waited until today.

I called them, and left a message telling them just to send them to Stebbins, where the meet is being held. Wonder if they'll be there by Tuesday.

Here is a picture of one of our current uniforms, and why we needed new ones so badly:

Temperature

Today, when I was getting ready for school, I looked at the indoor/outdoor thermometer my dad bought me. Yup, it was 10.5 degrees, F. That's -23* Celsius, for those interested. Winter is here.

The Mountain Dew Challenge

I feel a little bit like this should be written in the style of a marooned sailor: "Day 18 of my abandonment. Looked for fruit this morning, will go to the lookout fire this afternoon. . ."

So here it is: "Day 6 of my Mountain Dew deprivation. I worked at the student store today, and stared longingly at the glass front refrigerator."