i don't want to forget to mention that amidst all this crazy stressfulness, my sweetest of men is right there, cooking and helping and moving furniture and trying to make me laugh. he's the only thing that's gonna get me through all this.

i am so fucking lucky. i'm not kidding. he's the best.

first day of preplanning and i got home and cried ( Read more... )

i've been working through the cambridge pure math 1 book [for my precalc class] all afternoon, and i'm kind of unhappy with it. first of all, i have no teacher's edition. as far as i know, one doesn't even exist. secondly, the book offers none of that important motivational stuff, like little tidbits about the mathematician who came up with the ( Read more... )

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So here I am. I've decided to start this journal because I need a place to talk about my "teacher things." I've got several other online journals, but all are too closely related to my personal life. I wanted a place where I could simply track my first year as a teacher... my thoughts, my fears, my observations, my crazy kids ( Read more... )

this entry is just a test ( Read more... )