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One of my coworkers calls my student teacher my “work husband”. Which is funny but also kind of creepy to me because the guy is 8 years younger than I am. And while I have dated people 8 years older than me (okay one person), I don’t think I could handle the fact [...]
Today was yet another long day. Hah, do I ever do anything but complain?
First I had to give up my prep period to learn how to use the new (third program in four years!) software for entering grades. Then my student teacher (I have a student teacher coming! In November/December!) had asked if [...]
So I feel like I’ve been run over ten times and have left most of myself on various truck grills. I actually went to work today and about halfway through homeroom I realized that there was no way I was going to make it through the day. Luckily I had a prep first [...]
It’s been quite a week.
Back to work. Which is good – I’m enjoying it, but at the same time, I am exhausted at the end of each day. Although I basically woke up at the save time (6:30) all Summer, I could nap if I needed to – now I’m in bed by 8:30 because [...]
So I went to my parents’ the other day for a visit, and they are redoing their bathroom.
They are 62 years old. My Dad has had heart problems. My mom has back problems. And yet they insist on doing everything themselves – everything from laying down the ceramic tile floors to putting in the [...]
It’s been about 3 weeks since my surgery, and the bruises are gone. The incision in my belly button is fine, it just looks like a little x-shaped dent. The one that’s at my pubic bone, though… ugh. Now, it’s not infected, itchy, particularly painful, or anything like that. I don’t feel it when I’m [...]
This morning I went to the basement to put some laundry on, and saw something that broke my heart a little more.
Just before our wedding, this came up on Freecycle. I immediately emailed asking for it, thinking “We don’t need it this second, but we should soon enough, maybe”. We picked it up and [...]
Oh and!
Parts of the building where I work is about 50 years old. Some parts are new (they built some new classrooms 10 years ago) but other parts? Outdated. My classroom is in the older section. The foods, sewing, and one computer lab are in the old part. I think they’ve had some renovations, but [...]
A kind of weird day.
At the end of the day, I kind of take a peek through the desks in my classroom. Mainly because kids sometimes leave food in them (yes, 12, 13, 14 year olds) and the janitors don’t clean them out, ever. Also because sometimes they leave behind interesting notes and I like [...]
Did you guys know that I have a photoblog? I do.
Did you know that my report card marks are due on Monday morning at 9 am? They are.
Did you know that marking has driven me sufficiently crazy that I am now about ready to tear my (non-existent) hair out? It has, and I am.