Relief

Woke up this morning to virtually no leg pain, and my throat is not sore. Still coughing some, but it is smaller chunks of oatmeal. No more gummy bears. I think biking helped burn out the cold fast. No clue about the other, except if I had a disk shift in my back, maybe muscles finally shifted it back.

This little news story made me laugh. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080910/D9342OE81.html

I don't think I will encounter a bear on my daily trip, but I have a max speed of 25. When I saw the name of the middle school, I laughed harder. Wouldn't fly in the south.

Fun doesn't encompass my day. Had a cell phone go off in my class today. Kids were in an uproar, nobody would fess up to having it. So I called an administrator with a handheld metal detector. He promised 3 days suspension if he had to use the wand. Still nothing. Finally a girl says she has one, but the battery is out. When asked where the phone is, a different girl says it is over there. Over there turns out to be on a shelf in a cubby, under a book laid horizontally over the books arranged there. Either she loaned her purse to these girls, or something, but they put the battery in it, caused a fuss, removed the battery, hid the phone (to avoid the metal detection) then lied in confidence. To top it off, one of the girls tried to vanish from where we told her to wait for consequences. Principal intervened, and I think a message was sent loud and clear to all those girls, plus the word got around to all our rooms.

Absence of pain feels pretty good after a couple of days. Good thing pain pills won't cut it for me usually, or I might get hooked. Nice to feel comfortable.