I am really liking my new job location. The students are so much better behaved than at the other school, the facilities are nicer (and actually CLEAN), and for the first month I felt as if I had reached teaching heaven. The honeymoon phase is over, and I am now beginning to notice little annoying things about the school and some of the students ( Read more... )

This is something that happens to other people ( Read more... )

OMG! I am so tired. My legs hurt. My lower back aches, and I am feeling kind of depressed. I have been spending the last days of my summer vacation cleaning and prepping for visitors, who, bless them, are now at their own homes. Now I have spent three days carting the accumulation of 18 years of teaching from one school to another waaay across ( Read more... )

Damn. I am so very not ready for summer vacation to end. I have gotten spoiled for having so much free time, you know, like rich people have (lucky, undeserving bastards). One thing I am glad to see coming to an end is my project list. I became obsessed with that damn list and checking off those little projects as "done." I got to the point ( Read more... )

Well, I accepted the job offer and now I am excited about the move. Not that I want to start immediately. MAN! I am soooo enjoying this summer vacation; the last five or six summers were spent working or going to graduate school. I do not have to go on a trip or anything; just being able to sleep late, linger in my pj's, and unhurriedly get ( Read more... )

Wow. That was fast. I was offered a new job on Friday, just two days after the job fair. It is not really the one I wanted, but not a bad place to work. I really wanted to move up to the high school level, not make a lateral move to another middle school. I may have an interview for a HS in the next few days, so I am going to have to avoid ( Read more... )

I went to a job fair today and saw soooo many of my coworkers there! I had a couple of promising interviews and the promise of a call to set up another one soon. It is kind of scary to switch jobs after having been at the same one for nearly two decades, but I really think I am ready for a change.(fingers crossed ( Read more... )

I have let the last year of horror keep me from updating my journal. The changes my co-workers and I have gone through have made some of us quit, some of us ill, and the rest of us miserable. I guess I could have vented here, but I wanted my journal to be a place to escape from RL. That so did not happen. Summer is coming and with it more free ( Read more... )

Okay. Now I know why some of the lj's I check out haven't posted in aeons. Time gets away from you and life ties you up in "nots." So, here I am, trying to get into the habit of updating ( Read more... )

Okay, first entry of my livejournal. I have been a lurker for a couple of years and am kind of fascinated at the whole concept of livejournals. On the one hand, they are a great way to connect with people. On the other hand, why would people display their dirty laundry for the world to smell? Like anything else, lj can be an extreme experience ( Read more... )