It's fixed!!

Hello devoted fans. Thanks for your patience while I was unable to load pictures. It turns out that all I had to do was go to "settings" and chose to use the new system for postings. It looked like this:

See how I was able to upload that picture to the post?


Here are some more things that have happened in my life:

The annual Christmas Eve cracker and cheese party. I hosted. Angie and I made a bunch of stuff. Life was good.

Baby Norman came over for the party, and we hung out a bit. He's getting to the point where he can almost stand on his own now. He just needs some support. He looks awfully small in this picture.

Here is my Christmas tree, all lit up and covered in seal skin Christ signs and red bells. It wasn't until I was thinking about taking it down that I realized I made a bunch of ornaments out of glass, and never bothered to put them on the tree. I know, I suck.

Everbody loves a good cheerleader slumber party. This was at 10 am, and they'd been woken up a couple times before I turned on the lights. I'd only been back from Copenhagen for three nights, and was still exhausted. We watched Clue, with Tim Curry, and I fell asleep before the first guest died. (In the movie. Not in real life. All the girls did just fine.) The apparently recorded me snoring. And played it for me. Apparently I was supposed to be mortified, or something. It's hard to be mortified when I'm on day six of minimal sleep.

And just in case you're curious, here's the sun rising. We are currently at -18* F, with a wind chill of -48* F. This means frostbite can begin to happen after 10 minutes.

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 p.m. and I just took this picture of the sun peeking over the horizon.

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.