I can't believe it's already year 3 of teaching and I'm still here! (knock on wood) I really wish I had written more during my first two years of teaching so I could have recorded how completely unprepared and inexperienced I was compared to how I am now and then gloat at my previous self for being so silly and making so many mistakes. I feel ( Read more... )

Xtina got all "Exceeds Expectations" on the second half of her job evaluation OH YEAH BABY YEAH I'm getting a beer

Watched Forbidden Kingdom. Jackie Chan vs Jet Li lights up the end of a very tense day. Kshaa--khsaa kshaa shaa shaa!

I was somehow convinced to sponsor the club "Students for Political and Global Awareness." Amazing group of seniors and juniors, all activists, all informed, all compassionate. I felt a little overwhelmed by how deeply committed some of the kids were to their causes. I watched "Invisible Children" with them and cried at the end because the ( Read more... )

Yelled at kids who needed ass-kicking. It felt good.

Me: "Spring Break! I won't have to think about school for 10 WHOLE DAYS ( Read more... )

I couldn't let poop be the last thing I ever talked about on this earth if I died five seconds from now, no matter how poopalicious that was. So I had to post something else. Like....taxes. Taxes are lovely. Numbers can be used in so many interestingly boring ways, and I have to pay for all of them.

Been playing with my new bathroom scale. I am five to six pounds heavier after I've eaten dinner. I am five to six pounds lighter right after waking up in the morning. And after I poop, I am two pounds lighter.

So there I was, minding my own business, locking myself indoors for the long weekend and generally being a hermit. I ordered out Chinese food (or is it ordered in?) and got the prerequisite fortune cookies. The first one I open says, "You create your own stage. The audience is waiting." OK, thanks for noticing and assuring me that I'm not ( Read more... )

The --correct-- answer on an assignment was, "Never contradict the ways of your guests." I received one answer on another assignment from a person within hearing distance of the first one went, "Never contradict the weights of your guests." Thus, on another assignment a couple desks over I found, "Don't tell fat people they're losers ( Read more... )