Merry Un-Labor Day!

so i'll make this quick because my computer sounds like it is about to explode or implode or some type of "plode"...since i last wrote, what has happened...the russian school situation has been so difficult to deal with, sounds like the deaths could go up to 500...i pray for the survivors and their families and friends, how do you live with that experience?...another murder in the tri-city area, this time a teacher, so as a fellow teacher, it numbs my brain to think that teachers are so often targets for violence...don't want to go into many details as the investigation continues, but it was someone who graduated with my sister in 78, i do believe, and don't know what else to say except i put the whole kiona- benton city area in my prayers too...president clinton is having his surgery...and on a good note, the red sox are hopefully closing in on the yankees...i like the yankees, don't mind seeing them in the playoffs ever, but i love the sox and would like to see "it" happen- you know, the curse would end and the sox could win it all...or the cubbies...my mariners had an unexpectedly lousy season but they will be back...after years of futility we had 1995 then we got used to winning, then 2004 happened...all of this sports talk can't take my mind off the reality of this world...i can't get the faces of those russian school children out of my thoughts...i used to love sports as in i was obsessed with them...now they serve as a distraction, although i do think that the seahawks will have a good season...i am almost done reading "harry potter and the sorcerer's stone"...yeah, i know, everyone else in the world has read all 5 of rowling's books, and i, a teacher for goodness'sake, is just now finishing the first...what can i say?...hopefully i will be back to my usual schedule of teaching and working at kp...emotionally and financially i have to work that 9.5 hours a day just to barely break even...so it's just after 9 am here in the beautiful pacific northwest area of the usa (actually the southcentral part of washington state), hey but next weekend i'll be just south of mt. rainier, so i am excited, of course, unless it decides to pull a mt. st. helens act and explode on us...hey, whatever...okay, so maybe i'll write more later...