So to quote America's Next Top Model, "She's got her eye coming out of one side of her head... it's like she's an antelope!"

I can't beat that.

So leaving work yesterday to go to this meeting was humbling and not a total trainwreck on the homefront, insofar as the kids got some work done, and actually purported to miss me upon my return. That's a lie, and they just wanted to go back to the computer lab, but the energy was pretty good, even if the day seemed super-long.

It's just sad--I've developed an adequate working relationship with this one math teacher, who's well on in years and seniority and deeply absent-minded, which has been a fruitful collaboration in that she's never met an idea that she hasn't liked, but of course the problem is that she's light on the followthrough and as much as I can sell a mathematically valid and rich approach to her, she'll fail to adopt it. It's this which I find so defeating in terms of my future program--even the willing pupils stubbornly resist, unswayed by any sort of mathematical argument--the Euclidean approach to the Pythagorean theorem absolutely fails to capture the point and be a valid proof for students. How many proofs will students ever see? There's some Emerson or Thoreau quote about this.

Anyway, it's foolishly still quite some time before I'm off with Wifey to go see the Ring Two. How good could that be?