This week's high points

So it's been a very busy week so I'll hit the high points here for you:

1. School is going well. I have 90+ kids in my four classes. So far most of them are pretty scared/intimidated by me. I have a quiz to grade that I gave on Friday to see if they at least listened to me this week.
2. I'm undefeated as a high school volleyball coach! Note the Lincolnton papers link to the right where you'll find brief round-ups on the sports page about our games. You'll notice a difference if I ever start writing them for coach. We're starting to keep stats so it should be more informative soon.
3. I had the chance to talk to some of my Kings Mountain kids this week. They're liking 8th grade so far but wish I was teaching them instead of here at Lincolnton. I promised that I will see them when we play against each other in the various sports this year.
4. All of my Noogs who play volleyball made the JV team at East Burke. Several of my ABC Killers have made their school teams as well. I'm so proud I could pop.
5. Mini-Me is liking high school and even called to tell me about it. She has herself a new boyfriend in the first week of school. Let's just hope that he doesn't act all weird around her or she'll have her first break-up of the year in the second week of school.
6. My parents are safely in New York for my grandmother's 80th birthday party (which was today). I talked to them on Thursday night and really wished I could be with them. They are getting to spend time with parts of the family I haven't seen in years.
7. I've had emails from several friends from high school this week for various reasons. We are working on a "reunion" of volleyball players, managers, coaches, etc to help Coach Richards (from FTF) celebrate her 500th career victory. I need to sit down and count my victories over the years. I should be around 50 this season if not more. The question is how do I count the JO tournaments?
8. My counseling courses have arrived in the mail. Simply seeing the box sitting on my front porch made me very excited! They sent me the adult version when I requested the kid version, but I think I'll do the adult version anyways. I could very easily see me getting into the habit of doing these courses. I hope to start them soon.

There are probably several more things I'm forgetting but I thought I should post something to sum up this week before it escapes me completely. I'm very glad to have Monday off from school. We have volleyball practice because we have three matches this week. I'm heading down to GWU to visit Courtney and possibly swinging by Swoogers for some ice cream with the Kings Mountain gang. It should be a good end of summer celebration and hopefully I'll be ready to settle into the school/volleyball/church routine again. Have a great weekend!