This is the best I could do, considering the day I've had. Should have have taken a picture of the bus careening past the curb as I ran up the hill to catch it this morning? Or maybe a group shot of me, another teacher guy and a well-to-do middle school child riding up to the Bronx in a taxi, all to separate schools. Wait, wait, maybe it should have been a picture of me trying to coax Stephanie to not play with the tacks from the bulletin board in the back of her English class. Or, it could have been the picture of me scrambling to put in all the correct information into an online report of my ESL students today, one ear to my cell with the Bronx compliance coordinator (who knew there were SO many rules and mandates for English language learners??), flipping wildy through my binder of information, while trying to convince my friend Rachel that she should be get a later start on her errands because I needed her help on the computer data program. Perhaps I could have taken a photo when I went out to dinner with Kate tonight (that was actually a highlight). But really, I think the winner would actually have been a photo of me walking around the East AND West sides of Union Square in the freezing cold with my stinking roommate who dragged me out of my perfectly warm room to try to find the Revival Bar in order to hang out with Couchsurfers for a weekly meet up. It WOULD have been a good idea, had I not so immediately become miserable. We walked over a mile. We never found it. I took the subway home by myself and tried to ignore the smelly homeless man across from me, because even though he hasn't washed (not his fault really), he still deserves to get out of the cold.
No, no, no. None of those pictures will do. I'll settle for the still life of my most current book (it's worth a look if you like YA stuff) and my iPod Shuffle. Sigh. Must sleep now.
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That's Chasing Vermeer, isn't it? I read that one too! I thought it was a little slow starting off, but I enjoyed the end. Have you read Romiette and Julio? It's one of my recent favorite YA selections. There's a love story and some gang related drama, but nothing in it that would give parents or principals cause to complain. And Julio speaks Spanish, so that might interest your English Language Learners. It's by Sharon Draper.
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