Hey, there, how you doin'?

 Hey all! Been a bit, sorry to not blog for awhile,hope you've been keeping yourselves out of trouble. I've been on summer vacation for two whole weeks now, and I'm just getting over the 'ahhh' of not working and into the 'I need to find something to do'. I have plenty to keep me busy: making Powerpoint slides for the Worldbuilding seminar I'm giving at a Teacher's workshop in August, trying to finish up the first draft of the next LoA book, which I'm pretty sure will keep the title THE SWORD OF DANU (Celtic mythology, in case you're wondering), and that's going well. Using Scrivener to work on new Steampunk book. I think I am in love with Scrivener. Their character sheets and the way they can keep everything together in one 'binder' is awesome. When my free trial is over I will pony up the money for it, I think.  Soon I will have to start thinking about two other things: next semester in grad school, and lesson plans for next year. Fortunately one of the classes I have is Materials and Services for Children, and the other is School Media Center Management, so both will fit nicely with my job, and I have hopes that I can kill multiple birds with one stone in the Fall. As far as curriculum, I have big plans for Kindergarten, teaching them about proper book care, how the library is set up, and getting them reading. Even though the library isn't ready for them to check out books, I can still get them taking books off the shelves and reading in class. Doing poetry in April for National Poetry Month. Pre-K, I'm still working on, but there will be cross over, like book care, but the thing about Pre-K is I need to do a whole group lesson and then some small group activity in every class. It's the curriculum, and I have 45 minutes, per class, which is an eternity with 3 &4  year olds. There's lots of things to do: coloring, the SMART board, felt board. The small group activity should go with the whole group activity. If anyone has any websites with lesson plans I could borrow, that'd be great.  And on the agent front... of the ten queries I sent in May, all but 2 have come back. Of those 8, 2 asked for fulls and 1 partial. One full already came back a R, which leaves 1 and 1. Plus the full that was requested if I didn't have an agent way back in March. I am following that agent on Twitter, and thank goodness because the full got lost in the internet, I found out through a DM,so I resent and she has it now. Crossing fingers. 
 Oh, and I'm on Google + now, if any of you are. My picture is up, so you'll know it's me. 

Happy weekend!