I’ve basically avoided physically going into my classroom all summer. I brought home all my reading and prep and have been (lazily) chipping away at it. But today I had to go in. I needed to photocopy a few things, and I wanted to see if my room was ready for me to move things around and set some things up.
First things first, I went to my room.
Yeah. NOT READY FOR ANYTHING. They have half of my floor tiles removed and the contents of my closet are all over the rest of the floor.
That’s okay, I thought. This way I only had to stay for 10 minutes to make my copies.
That 10 minutes turned into 45, thanks to trusty old xerox phaser 8560. It usually works super-well, but I think it’s been sleeping all summer and doesn’t remember how to do its job. First it took about 10 minutes to warm up (usually it’s like, one). Then it made about 3 copies and… out of paper. Then it was out of ink. And I had to figure out how to change the ink thingie. So that took… forever. And I’m not quite sure I did it properly, since someone has moved the instruction manual from where it’s supposed to be… hopefully whoever else decides to come in and make copies won’t be too messed up by my shenanigans today.
I know this probably wasn’t even your intention when writing this, but … it made me feel like enrolling in college! Just, going back to school, in general. Weird? =]
You should do it. What are you going to take?