just when my days were starting to get so good (i got my penpal letters from Australia today!) my ex-roomate calls me and tells me that my ex-landlord is planning on keeping our entire security deposit (nearly $3,000) because of burns in the rug (not my room) and the wall paint (again, not my room ( Read more... )

for whatever reason i'm posting a lot, and i'm not quite sure why i even bother because hardly anyone reads this anymore, but i'm going to say this is a somewhat rhetorical question. if you want to answer, go ahead ( Read more... )

i like that my kids can make me laugh.
i had them writing a chapter of their autobiography, and here's a snippet of one of them:

Now, I'm in 5th grade, I have the new teacher, Ms. Garland and I'm glad. Sure she makes us copy a lot of notes, but she's funny, fun, and kind.

haha. wow. awesome.

well, talk about a total 180 from this week. i am feeling really good and normally i would say i don't know why, but this time i totally do ( Read more... )

so i handed in my pre-contract agreement today and checked off "undecided about returning" and "must meet with you ( Read more... )

you know that your vacation is over, and that it's about time to go back to school when you start having dreams about your kids misbehaving in class, your principal criticizing every peice of student work you have on your wall and in your classroom ( Read more... )

i am so tired of my kids talking, tired of them stealing things from each other (and now me), tired of threatening them with detentions and missing special events ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's just the fact that I feel like I get beat down everyday at work, or just the shear amount of work I have to do, or just the apartment/roomate situation, but I think, no, I know it's time for change ( Read more... )

note: i work at a catholic school, so this has a religious aspect to it, but still great and actually made me laugh at the staff meeting ( Read more... )

super me. i dropped my phone yesterday and it broke. and by broke i mean half of the flip part fell off. awesome. so i had to buy a new phone yesterday, and the cheapest one they had was $70. i mean, i don't need a camera, or an mp3 player, just a phone. there's money i had not intended on spending ( Read more... )