<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680265.post-115518246918512179</id><published>2006-08-09T20:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T21:01:09.196-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Out of It</title><content type='html'>Out of steam.... out of commission.... out of the groove...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been months since I've written, and even that was "forced" out of me in a  writing seminar I was taking.  Today I started back to school and realized that the summer is truly over, with very little to show for it.  I joke with friends that I spent this summer perfecting my cat impersonation - napping daily in warm, sunny spots - but its kind of depressing to get to the end of two months off and not really have gotten much out of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm excited about the upcoming school year, and scared at the same time. Seems like every year, I start off with this kind of double-sided excitement/terror.  Lots has changed this year, but then how much can really change in one year in a middle school classroom?  Middle school is still and always a study in contradictions.  Maybe that's why I like it so much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I don't have much to say right now. I'm doing some studying for my final seminary course and want to share some of that soon. But not right now. It's still percolating.  And I've got nothing profound to say, tonight.  I guess I just thought I'd better check-in with my blog - and anybody else out there....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680265-115518246918512179?l=threehundred.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://threehundred.blogspot.com/feeds/115518246918512179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680265&amp;postID=115518246918512179' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680265/posts/default/115518246918512179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680265/posts/default/115518246918512179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://threehundred.blogspot.com/2006/08/out-of-it.html' title='Out of It'/><author><name>Beth Welge</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14045313682478103885</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='16232423435838447673'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>