I'm a Unitarian!

Didn't we all just see this coming?
Quiz is from Beliefnet.com and Carissa was the first person to post it. However, when I tried to take it after reading her blog, my computer wouldn't let me. But now it would. So I took it. I'm not surprised. However, after Ben's stories on how odd the Unitarians are, I think I'll keep up my spiritual apathy.

However, this is what put me in the Unitarian category (because on everything else they pretty much say "diverse beliefs" ranging from Christians to athiests, kharma, etc).

Contemporary Issues
The Unitarian Universalist Association’s stance is to protect the personal right to choose abortion. Other contemporary views include working for equality for homosexuals, gender equality, a secular approach to divorce and remarriage, working to end poverty, promoting peace and nonviolence, and environmental protection.

Really, doesn't that sound just like me a bit? Who says I'm not liberal!

1.	Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2.	Liberal Quakers (86%)
3.	Secular Humanism (84%)
4.	Theravada Buddhism (82%)
5.	Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (80%)
6.	Neo-Pagan (76%)
7.	New Age (65%)
8.	Nontheist (59%)
9.	Mahayana Buddhism (58%)
10.	Bahá'í Faith (49%)
11.	Reform Judaism (49%)
12.	Taoism (48%)
13.	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (42%)
14.	New Thought (40%)
15.	Orthodox Quaker (40%)
16.	Sikhism (40%)
17.	Jainism (39%)
18.	Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (39%)
19.	Jehovah's Witness (31%)
20.	Hinduism (30%)
21.	Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (29%)
22.	Scientology (27%)
23.	Orthodox Judaism (23%)
24.	Seventh Day Adventist (18%)
25.	Eastern Orthodox (13%)
26.	Islam (13%)
27.	Roman Catholic (13%)

Vermont and Spring Break

Brain no worky so good, so post will be written in phrases and bullets or run on sentences.

• Saturday - went to airport, National was uber crowded and people all around me were missing their planes. Took thirty minutes to get to the self serve kiosk. Once I got on the plane, things were fine. I had the row to myself and there really weren't that many people on the flight at all. It was funny because we had to take a shuttle to the runway to get to stairs to get on the plane. I felt like I was back at Monterey with it's rinky-dink airport. We went to Pizza Hut. It was bland. I put crushed red peppers on it and it was still bland. People in New England like bland. Even more than me. I like bland, but not that bland.
  


• Saturday with Kayla - went shopping. bought cute things. went to her apartment. went downtown to the only restaurant in town (SoRo is so small that Kayla knows like everyone there). Also, VT is so unpopulated that there are signs telling people not to backup on the highway because you, in fact, could because there are never any people around.


• Sunday - went to both the capital of Vermont (after being in New Hampshire's capital on Saturday) and the largest town in VT. They were both really tiny. However, they did have a nice Old Navy in Burlington. Also, VT is weird because all the restaurants closed at three and opened up again at five. Hello! I want to eat a three, or even four and they are denying me that opportunity. Also, people looked at us like we had the plague when we came in and tried to get something to eat at three. Hello! You have tourists! Many places do not close at all.
• Monday - I watched tv a lot. We also went to get Taco Bell and Wendy's. It took a while to get there. Sadly, it might take me that long to get to places like that near me only because traffic can be that bad. I don't know which is sadder.
• Tuesday - More tv and then a trip to the sugar house and then to the Olive Garden and then to airport. Getting to the flight was no problem. In fact, the flight was no problem. However, landing was a bit problematic. We had to fly in circles around National for about fifteen minutes of an hour and half flight because some dignitary or something pushed us out of landing order..
• Wednesday - Went to Whitman and did some photocopying and room cleaning. Not enough room cleaning, but much photocopying. Also, people came and cleaned the carpet (which was nice, but I would have liked to have known so I could have cleaned up all the stuff for them) but they didn't put my desks back like I had them. Are they telling me that my classroom arrangement is subpar? Or are they just too lazy to try to remember how I have things set up?
• Thursday - cleaning and gynecologist. The Beltway sucked and people couldn't drive. Trucks with oversized loads were setting the pace for us and U-Hauls in the left lane kept the rest of us under the speed limit. Gyno went okay. I'm still a bit sore.
• Friday - I'm going shopping with my mommy. I want to get my apartment presentable so that she isn't all grossed out. This is why I cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen today. Now I've just got to get the main room in order. It's really messy . I was also planning on cleaning up the bedroom and the office. I don't think there's enough cleaning to do to keep me busy for the rest of the week....It's so short! My spring break is almost over. Le sigh.
  

Post Work Out Glow and Exhaustion

Okay, so not all the exhaustion is from 20 minutes on the elliptical, I've had a freaking long day! Talk about doing dishes in the morning before going to school, planning for a sub, teaching for thirty minutes where my overhead bulb went out again. It went out in January.... Then I got to the cafeteria and took 21 hyper GT kids to see a play/collection of scenes at GMU. They seemed to enjoy it and were fairly well behaved. However, I was so exhausted by the experience that I wanted to sleep. Unfortunately, I had told kids that I was going to stay after today to work with kids on their book talks. Fortunately, only about nine of them showed up and really, I only had to listen to one book talk.
But my day didn't end. I came home, answered parent emails, and went to the gym. Then I came back and Ben's like, "Make me dinner, bitch. I'm hungry." Since he did make dinner last night, I guess it's my turn. I made dinner and even cooked a chicken breast for him. It's been done for like half an hour and he still hasn't come down from the loft to eat it. He's been playing with his freaking PDA for like an hour now. I made you dinner! It's getting cold!
Anyway, tomorrow I'm coming home early (I hope) and maybe get some packing done. Thursday is so busy with planning during planning and then Great Beginnings and dinner. Friday I've got to get everything nice and ready for starting The Diary of Anne Frank when we get back from spring break (and it probably wouldn't hurt to clean up my room a bit). I've got to get everything pack for Friday so I can go to sleep early and spend time with Ben and my cat before I go away. Also, I need to remember to print out my confirmation information at work tomorrow so that I can actually get my ticket... That would be good.

Vermont

I'm to go visit Kayla in Vermont the first weekend of my spring break. I am excited. I think going to Vermont is a great way to celebrate spring! I can prolong winter! Woo hoo! Because, really, who doesn't love snow and cold? I know I loved when it went from 60 degrees on Monday to snowing, 20, and 30+ mph gusts on Tuesday!

SOL Writing test is over! Woo hoo! Now it's just time to prepare them for what really matters; SOL Reading test and making AYP (annual yearly progress). Thank God for No Child Left Behind because now I need 73% of my kids to pass this test.

I'm so sleepy. I get tired at 7:00 pm every night. And I was going to grade today, oh well, the kids'll have to wait to know what they're getting on their interims. Too bad those are due on Monday.... I know what I've got to do this weekend.

When Dinner Goes Wrong

Ben was making dinner tonight, and he likes to be creative and make tasty things. Well, he decided to make stuffed hamburgers for himself, but the trick was, what to make me for dinner. I wanted stuffed veggie burgers so we had to think about what we could do with tofu to make them like ground beef. Ben mixed extra firm tofu with egg, blue cheese, Parmesan cheese, and assorted spices. Yeah, after we cooked them they were gross. Like I couldn't eat them and am planning on throwing them away gross. They were overcooked and tasteless and just plain nasty. Then I wanted to try to make this mashed potato thing I saw on 30 Minute Meals. Obviously I messed those up because I couldn't eat them, either. They were too salty and blue-cheesy. Anyway, our whole meal was gross except for the frozen peas. Those were tasty and I ate them all.