Some thoughts from the weekend

--My fifth graders at church are SO smart. I'm constantly surprised how intelligent the conversations we have some weeks during our small group time can become. It's been really great to be their teacher for the last four years and watch them grow up, and I'm enjoying having them now that they can carry on really complex conversations. This morning they asked me if I'm going to move up to sixth grade with them next year or not. I don't know yet if I will; I love them to pieces and would be happy to move up with them, but they're boys and it may be getting near the time when they need to have a guy teacher instead of me. Plus, the guy with the fourth grade boys this year seems to be looking forward to handing his group over to me at the end of the year.

--Jamie & I won second place at a 9-ball scotch doubles pool tournament yesterday. We won some money and we played well. Most of the people there are so nice that it would have been a good day even without the winnage, but winning was nice, too. :) I'm really glad to know all these people that I've met through the pool league -- they are awesome!

--I need to remember that if I end up having to take Excedrine Migraine (aka the Dark Banishing for Headaches), I need to make sure that I also eat and drink plenty between the time I take it and the time I plan to go to bed. I had a headache for the first few hours of the pool tournament yesterday and took E.M. around four in the afternoon or so, and never actually ate anything else for the day besides two granola bars, and didn't drink anything besides half a cup of diet coke and half of a peach Propell. Result (thanks to the caffeine in the E.M): me not being able to fall asleep until five am. Yes, this is the same night/morning in which we lose an hour with the time changing. ANd it was the second night in a row it took me forever to fall asleep (I didn't get to sleep till about three the night before) since it was my fourth day of battling headaches. The good news: no headaches today, and therefore no excedrine migraine to put caffeine in my system. I took a nap this afternoon and I'm going to try to go to sleep sometime before two. Thankfully there is no earliness required of me in the morning.

I think that's all for now. I finished Veronica Mars. It's not Buffy, but it's still an awesome show, and I'm going to be making a point of catching it on tv from now on.