Last week of school ended last week! Graduation was Saturday. I did have to show up today to clean out my office. I threw out all of my binders from the last 5 years of teaching--all the lesson plans and tests. I was nervous throwing out the first one. Then it felt good. And it made cleaning/organizing much easier. I have probably 3-5 hours ( Read more... )

OK, I was being a little melodramatic on Monday. I really felt that awful, but, of course, nothing's ever really that awful. And today was lovely. Two students who seriously trashed my office by scribbling everywhere with marker last week (!!) cleaned my office today and left me two very sweet apology notes, taking responsibility for their ( Read more... )

I am becoming more evil as the days pass in my job. There are 9 school days left until I never again have to try to convince 35 or more uninterested children (many of whom are complete brats to me) that math is worth their time. It was at least 2 months ago that I was saying "only 16 more school days". It will be an eternity before the next 9 ( Read more... )

Last night I looked out the window to the street and his car was in the driveway and my heart gave a little leap for one second thinking he was home, but he's not.

Making difficult decisions is not difficult for me. Things like: getting married to a man in the Air Force, quitting my job teaching math to pursue an MFA in creative writing. I make the decisions no problem totally sure it's what I want/what's supposed to happen. And then I fall apart ( Read more... )

( So I've been wasting my time away while Rick is in Mexico )

Rick left today to drive to Montana and then fly out with his friend to Mexico. He'll be gone for a week and a half and already I'm thinking, oh, shit, what will I do to fill my time? It's not like he doesn't leave for his job overnight all the time, so it's silly that today, of all days, Rick not even gone for 24 hours, I'm turning to LJ to ( Read more... )

The following is an article by Bryan Proffitt putting this recent issue into ( Read more... )

I want to be very clear. Those men deserve villification whether or not they raped the woman, but I also want my support of the woman for coming forward to be heard loud and clear. Coming forward about rape is automatic and repeated revictimization, especially if you are trying to support your children and put yourself through school with a ( Read more... )

I am so unbelievably filled with rage about violence against women and people of color, about the way our culture steps up to the plate only to play the same damn racist, sexist fucking stupid rhetoric like that's the only record on the shelf, like Bill O'Reilly can't even think of something smarter to say about an alleged rape involving a black ( Read more... )