Happy April Fool's Day!

This is my 90th posting in my blog! I can't believe I've made that many entries. I can't believe I've been in Farmington for almost 3 full months! The time has really flown by.

MRM sent the blog URL out to a bunch of her friends since she's talked about so much in here, it saves her having to write them all the tales of her new roommate. ;-) I knew she was going to do that, so I quickly added a "counter" and a map that keep track of visitors to this site. I'm being read in many different states between her friends, my friends, my family, Maggy's friends and family, and who knows who else is passing along this simple URL. I knew from my own experience that unless you've read a blog before, it's not intuitive how it works. Whenever I sent the URL to friends, I always included a little explanation of how to start in January, where the archives were, starting at the bottom of a page to go in chronological order, etc. But now that others were reading it that I wasn't telling, I decided to rearrange the page a little by changing the archives to weekly instead of monthly and adding an explanation of how to read the blog.

In several phone calls and emails from friends there are references to things that I know they would only know if they read the blog or talked to someone who did. How flattering! And of course, I've written in here about students that are reading the blog. In Classroom Management we talk about "being human" to your students (admit mistakes, apologize when you make one, share your passions, etc.) and establishing a professional yet friendly teacher-student relationship. I guess it's a good thing I never do anything I wouldn't want my students to know about 'cuz then there's nothing to worry about when I write. ;-)

This all started as an exercise to a) learn more about blogging so I could use it in my class, and b) save time by not having to write a bazillion emails to keep everyone posted, I could just refer them to the blog to find out what's going on. It has turned into an enjoyable journey into the blogosphere that I hope to continue.

And speaking of April Fool's Day . . . when you are going to pull an April Fool's Day joke on someone (of course in my case and Dr. Mari's that doesn't have to only be on April first . . . you should be doing those kinds of fun practical jokes all day, every day), you best not write about it in your blog or the recipient may read it and either find out about it in advance or figure out who pulled off that anonymous fun. So those who know me, know that there are many things I am not writing about because I can't in addition to all the things I'm not writing about because there isn't enough time.

So have some fun and think of me . . . I'd be having fun with you in person if you were here with me and the Mainiacs. ;-)