The birthday was nice. We took over the back area of Joe Squared, which again impressed me with its thin, tasty pizza and beer. A lot of my friends showed up, including some nice suprises, and we had a good time. Afterwards, we headed up to O'Donnell's Pub near my house, so I could walk home after a few more drinks. That's what happened, and my night ended up at a pretty healthy 11:30pm before I got really tired and headed home.
I woke up just fine this morning, and the kids made my day a pleasant one - all really nice and many with clever senses of humor. Yesterday, a teacher got a group of about 40 kids to sing me Happy Birthday, so the kids were all abuzz with questions about what I did. That I hung out at a pizza place on North Avenue impressed them - I'll take the street cred where I can get it - and one too-astute-for-her-own-good little girl noticed me wearing my glasses (which I wear rarely, only when my eyes are giving me problems or they're really dry) and drinking water like a camel and asked if it was a late night. It was fine, really, and I just said I missed breakfast and was extra thirsty.
This afternoon, I plan on spending the fifty bucks my parents sent me for birthday on a bookcase for my classroom. I've had a dream for a longtime of having a classroom library, and think I'm going to take the plunge. I'm actually thinking of bringing in a slab of Ikea carpet and setting up the back corner of the room as a reading lounge or something like that. Not exactly sure yet, but I'm hopeful it could be a cool thing. I'll probably be forced to get rid of it because of fire code violations or something silly like that, but I'm going to do my best.
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IKEA'll probably have their winter sale in the next few months -- it's almost always more of an autumn sale (although my memory is rusty). If you're getting a traditional bookcase, go with BILLY -- they're pretty inexpensive, too. I've had a BILLY bookcase for about twelve years, and it stills holds up really well. I splurged for glass doors for it just last week.
I know Ikea's bookshelves well, and have a couple of BILLYs, but you know what place has cheap bookcases? I just realized it - Staples. They've got a clearance right now and I think I'm going to check it out tonight.
It might be worth it to check out craigslist for some cheap cozy chairs (think gold swivel rockers from your grandparents basement) and bookcases. I got my classroom bookcases there. They're nothing fancy, but they hold books just fine :)
Good luck!!
Just got back from Staples. Got two five-shelf bookcases for $24.90 each.
I've had the hardest time finding bookcases at garage sales. I'm always on the lookout. Finding this deal was great. Hopefully they won't be tough to build.
The chairs thing is an excellent idea, thanks!
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