YES! I passed all of my summer session courses. I was really worried about first session’s U.S. since 1945 and second session’s Mississippi history. Both required a lot more reading than I can do in a month. Thank the Lord they are over. And I passed.

Ken and I are planning a trip to Albuquerque, NM. Fourteen hours driving one way. If we get to do everything we have planned, it should be a lot of fun. I just hope we can figure everything out and make the trip. I’ve never been further west than Little Rock, AR, which is still the South, still the Bible-Belt. I’m prayin’ an’a hopin’.

Other than that, everything else is going good. Aug 18^th makes 8 years for us. Ken just celebrated his birthday this month. I’m due to start fall semester and student teaching on the 22^nd, the day after we return from vacation. Which is one reason our vacation is going to be so short. I need to make plans for working during this next semester. The courses require that I’m in school during the am hours. This means I have to find a way to switch my shift to nights. Someone else already works that shift and I don’t think she wants to change. Oh well. Truth be told, I’m the head of the dept. and get nearly all I want. We’ll see how it works out. I may end up going on the overnight shift. I could do more school work while at work, not have a huge number of customers to take care of, and I could probably get away with not doing some of the other work usually done on that shift. The problem lies in that when I got off work at 6am, I’d have to basically go straight to class. That could make me a little irritated while working in front of a group of 5^th or 6^th graders. Another pitfall with that shift is that it leaves les time for Ken and I to share. Granted….while I’m in school we have little time anyway but at least we get to sleep next to each other at night. If I switch to the overnight I’d sleep in the afternoon. OH !!!! Decisions.

It has been so freaking hot around here in the mid-South. 94+ with a heat index of over 100. And the humidity just makes it worse. I know heat is heat but, heat and humidity sucks.

That’s really everything for me here in MS. I could rant and rave about the stuff in the news but what’s the point. Maybe later. God Bless.