feeling guilty

... but not really.
More mundane to bad news, so I haven't been posting much. At least I have moved along a little in the resolution department. It turns out I need surgery on BOTH shoulders. I have a torn rotator cuff and a bone spur on the left shoulder (surgery in October) and a torn levator scapulae in the right (surgery in December) as well as arthritis and nerve impingement in my c-spine, with as-yet-undetermined treatment somewhere down the road. So in addition to beginning of the year stress, I've been a wee bit anxious over all this.
ON the bright side, I've been kicking ass at work in spite of the many Dr. appointments and the pains and fatigue that I've been experiencing. The project that I went to Mexico for a month ago is working out pretty well so far, and I am miles ahead of, oh, everybody (more than 20 schools and hundreds of teachers are participating!)
We're studying poverty, and using technology to collaborate, so what I am doing is using a wiki page (please don't leave comments if you check it out) to collaborate with our partner class in Monterrey Mexico. We've only posted our introductions so far, but I'm tying it in to our writing curriculum, as well as into our social studies curriculum, and it is just plain awesome. We're examining cultural relativism, economics, and reflexive writing as a doorway to personal growth, and so far it's been working perfectly. I'll go into the details of HOW and WHY it is awesome at some future date, but trust me, what I'm doing is just plain good, and sooner or later it's going to get me the recognition I deserve for making vision into reality. I know I probably sound conceited, but I'm just being honest.
I'm also kicking off a comics club tomorrow, where we will be studying the comic as a form of literature and art, and we will be creating comics (hopefully) by mid-year to sell to support our student council.
Anyway, it's past my bedtime. 'Nite.

T