Okay, there is a full-time position open next year at the school where I am working now. This school is positively toxic: the students are apathetic, the staff is burned-out and miserable, the district has no money or positive direction, and I'd probably be running my feet off teaching in at least two or three different classrooms every day. If I  ( Read more... )

( I felt like an interloper all last night. )

Between federal and state, I'm getting a $1116 tax return! WOOHOO!!! Between that and getting paid to substitute teach, I can totally justify some sort of not-too-superfluous splurge present for myself when I finish this hellacious program. Holla, y'all.

My ongoing disgruntlement with most of my peers in this stupid graduate program has pretty much reached a head. One of them sent out an email last night inviting us all out for drinks BEFORE one of our classes, in which about half a dozen of us are presenting our cumulative work for the semester. Now, personally, I couldn't care less if these folks ( Read more... )

I think my death cold has moved into my ears. This hasn't happened since I was, oh, in elementary school. I don't really know what to do...I don't have a doctor up here, and all of the clinic-style places are obscenely expensive. Do ear infections always need antibiotics? I've been trying really damn hard to avoid antibiotics in general these days ( Read more... )

I think I need to come up with a name for whatever is wrong with me right now, even if it is just lethargy and sleep deprivation coming to a head. I shall call it...pedagogitis. From Wednesday to Friday, I didn't get home before 8:00PM once. Wednesday and Thursday were parent/teacher conferences (only one parent freaked out that I wasn't qualified ( Read more... )

Something in the range of five hours of yesterday were spent cleaning the ever-loving crap out of our apartment; it is sparkly-clean! We even took down the plastic stuff we had insulating our windows, so the sunlight that has started pouring in doesn't need to go through a weird crinkly filter. It's nice. I keep wanting to open the windows to let ( Read more... )

( FOOD! )

Today was a first. I pretty much definitely didn't pass a standardized test! I have never failed a single MAJOR test of any kind (SAT, driving, anything in college...nothing), but today, I am pretty sure I absolutely bombed the Middle School Social Studies Praxis II exam. For those of you not up to your asses in academia, the Praxis series of tests ( Read more... )

Stuff got kind of horrible last night; my Dad collapsed due to (they THINK) a chemical imbalance caused by a bad session of dialysis. He has only partial consciousness, and can't really remember who people are. My Mom (in her infinitely assuring way) was very clear last night that he is going to be absolutely fine, but I still have this pit of my ( Read more... )