I have this great urge to type in a string of obscenities. I felt like shouting many of them when I heard the news. I imagine I will be under stress so bad it will break me. I don't know yet, but so far, the tone of the conversations that have been happening, doesn't make things look good ( Read more... )

I wrote my first disciplinary referral! I feel so liberated.

Well, I am getting my first teacher evaluation tomorrow. They're going to look at things like my posture, my speaking voice, and my ability to keep students "on task". While normally I would be worried about the last part, my third period class was chosen to be the subject of the evaluation. I only have 8 kids in that class, thanks to Jeb Bush's ( Read more... )

It's been over a month since I last wrote, and I've been teaching for that long. We recently gave midterms out to the students, so I figured it was time for a progress self-report ( Read more... )

Three months ago I had to stop paying rent at my old apartment in Gainesville. I could not afford it by any means. I had sent the keys back to the landlord that three months ago ( Read more... )

Three hours of boredom, combined with a smidgen of hell. My back has been acting up, and it certainly didn't enjoy those tiny plastic chairs that school districts are famous for. Needless to say, I had a difficult time concentrating on the droning informational whirlwind ( Read more... )

Today was a very short day at my new job. It lasted less than one hour. I made the hour drive down to Keystone Heights Junior/Senior High School to pick up a set of keys to the portable I will be teaching class in ( Read more... )

I am now officially a junior high school teacher. God help us all.

I've cleaned out my journal. I erased every entry before this one. It didn't take very long.

I feel sick.