It's strange when first days of school become run-of-the-mill ... and to a large extent, that's what this one was. Although orientation with the police there was a new twist (the school office had been broken into the day before), the rest of orientation was the same as always. If you're anywhere near the office (I ended up filling in for the ( Read more... )

I just had my best substitute teaching stints this week. It was a sad reason - the second grade teacher's mom was in the hospital and wasn't expected to make it over night, so she left early on Thursday. I'm still the go-to girl for sudden substitution needs, so I got pulled in to teach the second graders for two days. It was a chaotic week to ( Read more... )

Alright, I realize it's been months since I've updated this, and it's pretty much always going to be that spotty. I've accepted this. However, being the nerd that I am, I just found out about (and visited!) a blog that two of the librarians at my library write for the teens who participate in our teen programs. I am still a little confused as to ( Read more... )

So, I don't remember what I last wrote here, and I'm too lazy to look. However, while I try to remember other things to update, I will say that the big thing that I'm looking forward to at work happens tomorrow: the machine that checks in the books AS they're returned indtead of having to take a cart of them to check in after they're returned ( Read more... )

A new website (along with freerice.com) to visit when I'm bored, found on my last day of school for the year - someone must think I have a lot of free time on my hands with summer vacation coming up or something!

I was never a huge fan of my own graduations from school. Maybe it was because I've never really liked big receptions, and they all seem to come with one ... and I know my college graduation was tinged with the fact that I had to go right back into student teaching the day after that crazy weekend of ceremonies ( Read more... )

Movies are fun, but I think I need to remember that sleep is important, too! I often don't get home until 10, then go online to check my favorite sites and email, and then I get to going through my tapes or dvds and watching something, either a tv show or movie. This is all normal, but when I get home so late, and still do all of this, means I ( Read more... )

So I've been failing on my plan to actually write in this journal for 25 weeks now. Ridiculous! So I thought I'd try again. I'm writing from my brand new laptop that I got a week ago, which I LOVE. I also bought a new digital camera in the same week. Playing with the camera at a Steven Curtis Chapman concert. Black & white pictures, and quick ( Read more... )

1. Go to .
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results.

1. High School Teacher
2. Foreign Language Instructor
3. Historian
4. ESL Teacher
5. Computer Trainer
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This week was quite eventful. The eighth grade class from the school that I'm teaching at graduated on Wednesday evening, and the kindergartners graduated yesterday morning. The eighth grade one was very nice. There was a service in church, and then a reception afterwards in the school. There were only eight kids in that class who graduated (two of ( Read more... )