When the mail arrived yesterday, I found that Beth had included both the Pi Fillings Goes to School and their regular Pi Fillings CDs. Rachel offers some beautiful photographs as freeware desktop downloads. While a lot of my columns lean more toward the primary and intermediate crowd, this column has a number of apps listed that could be valuable to middle or junior high school math teachers. They're all participating in the death watch for convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Oddly, I feel somehow detached from all of the hoopla.
Tomorrow is the kid's last day.
I'm really ready. I just received word today that a former student of mine was killed last night in a car accident involving a current student. This guy had just graduated a week ago. He was a great little guy who only wanted to help his dad with his OTR truck. I am ready for summer.