Student teaching is going pretty smoothly. My school is wonderful. Of course, like all schools nowadays, they're currently in the throes of standardized test preparation. We have a staff meeting tomorrow where we will all learn how to proctor the test and how to provide the appropriate accommodations for kids who get the test read to them, get a scribe for their answers, get extra time, etc. Starting a week from tomorrow, I'm going to be doing test-related things all day for eight days. What joy is mine.

I've been reading a lot, mostly chapter books from the classroom library. I've discovered a deep love of Roald Dahl; did you know that he wrote an anti-hunting story? Crazy stuff. I've also tried to read books from my very own bookshelf, but have found that there isn't much there that I want to read and haven't read already. I am now rereading A Sand County Almanac. I love reading books again. I liked this book so much that I dog-eared four pages on my first reading because those quotes were just so good. (I normally have a Leave No Trace policy with books.) Check this shit out:

"A hobby is a defiance of the contemporary. It is an assertion of those permanent values which the momentary eddies of social evolution have contravened or overlooked. If this is true, then we may also say that every hobbyist is inherently a radical..."

Oh, Aldo Leopold. You melt my little heart.

Speaking of hobbies, I haven't hooped lately. I've been quite busy and the weather was awful for a while, but I'm hoping that my schedule will figure itself out and that spring will progress quickly.