Stop with the calling already

Bradley and I finished our New Media in the Classroom class today, and I'm happy and sad that our teaching is over for the summer.

Happy:

• It is exhausting.
• It is hard on the kids. (They are not used to having me gone.)
• It is harder on my sister, who watched all the kids.
• I miss my routine.

Sad:

• I got to talk to grownups.
• I got to spend all day with my husband.
• I got to teach about awesome technology.
• I got to eat out today for lunch. (Seriously. Raspberry cold soup, avocado-turkey-tomato on cheese bread, and turtle chocolate pie for lunch...swoon!)

But that's not what I came here to say today. No, what I came here to say was: STOP WITH THE PHONE CALLS ALREADY. We've been home from work for 2.5 hours, and have had SEVEN political calls, all about the senate primary next Tuesday. (I've already made up my mind who I'm voting for, which wasn't easy because the two candidates? Almost exactly the same.) Seriously, though, if the phone rings again...I may not vote at all, because I will have gone CRAZY, and I don't think they allow insane people to vote.

So. Candidates, a word of advice: Try to coordinate your phone calls so that I don't get three or four calls on your behalf in 2.5 hours. And count your blessings that your opponent chose the same night to call-spam me, because otherwise I would be voting for him.