welp ( Read more... )

you know that desperate search for tampons? it happens like every third or so period. i find a big box of tampons will last about 2 periods, and so it always seems like there ends up being the period where the tampon box is empty and you are desperately digging through your apartment looking for tampons you may have haphazardly left somewhere ( Read more... )

we were studying fact and opinion, and for an exercise, i had each kid write a sentence that state an opinion. that was the only guideline. here are the responses ( Read more... )

Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: my entire diet
i think this would best be explained by reviewing the contents of my refrigerator. old eggs, random yogurts, poptarts, bisquick mix, juice, old milk, pickles, various salad dressings, old hummus, butter, oregano, mustard, mayo, Kix, a few pieces of bacon, baking powder, brown sugar, ( Read more... )

i don't want to forget these things, the things that make my life know such a wierd and comic existence ( Read more... )

it's 12:10. and i'm about to start cleaning the apartment. and i feel good about that. because it's in my control. i can work for a while and then result - clean apartment. i also did laundry tonight. i closed out the laundromat on a friday night. but it was in my control - i went. i washed. and now, i have clean things ( Read more... )

during class, whenever a student's phone goes off, i take it from them and call their parents, saying they have to come get the phone. so this afternoon, my phone went off - i had forgotten to turn it on silent. so jokingly, one of my girls said "hand me your phone ms lee!" so i went along with it. and at the end of class, she said "to be fair, i ( Read more... )

from a sentence created by a student to practice direct and indirect objects ( Read more... )

so after 8 hours of work, 2 hours of soccer, 1 hour of driving girls home, and 1 hour of tfa meeting, i walked up to Prince of Wales Pub to meet my set up date slash group of friends ( Read more... )

here is the proof that my friend pierre is the third funniest human on the planet. i haven't talked to him in over a year. he's a tfa pal. so i emailed him to ask if he could come and speak at my learning team meeting so that my first years' can hear a new set of ideas and a new perspective. this is his response ( Read more... )