"But You Need The Rain," He Says. "How Else Will You Get the FWOWERS?"

Typically on a Tuesday morning, I drink my coffee and head to the streets for a long run. Why? Because I'm on campus until late at night.

Today, however, I'm likely to head indoors to the gym for my run because it looks like a total wash.

That is the way of water. It must fall, so it can move upon land to reach streams, rivers, lakes and oceans, only to be evaporated and recycled again.

Woot Woot! To the clouds.

I'm channeling all this because my graduate students read a little Moje in Smagorinsky's Content Area Literacy text and, tapping my environmental days, I am doing a mini-literacy project in the sciences to make the case for reading, writing, speaking, and thinking across the disciplines.

Let it rain. It will prove my case.

And, speaking of cycles (as the work-week is definitely a cycle), this week is pre-NCTE departure week and the stress, organizing, worry, and answering questions has circled my way once again. In January propose. In June, hear if accepted. In September, work with collaborators locally and nationally on conference sessions. In November, rampantly put the ideas into place. Then present.
Repeat in January.

It is amazing to predict where one's thinking will be so many months in advance, but it is always wonderful once at the conference location - so many wonder NCTE people in one location discussing literacy. Then, we'll evaporate back into the clouds until January when our first drops will trickle back down.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. - repeat. 1.2.3.4.5. - repeat.