Ok, feel a little less like dying today. Time to go take my last Praxis Test (if I pass).

Hmmmmmm, yeah.

Also, one kid said I was trying to make him gay.

I wasn't even trying yet. Wait til I put some effort in. (Not laughing)

Fucking A, I am looking for jobs. Please don't let me end up jobless or working in the suburbs. Teacher fair tomorrow, and what a crap shoot that is. But Imma be there.

About the weather:

"Occasional showers...that's like my lifestyle!"
Male hipster from Edina at Pizza Luci in St. Paul

Life, so weird. I don't think I understand other people. This week has been like the Mekon's song, I was buying you a drink, where were you? So, it's like I've spent a lot of time alone, but doing stuff. And then it's like, other people that it only makes sense to think I wouldn't matter that much too, it seems like were thinking about me still ( Read more... )

So life kinda blows &etc. But I am not in any danger of getting kicked out, or not getting medication that I need, which is good. I just have to keep teaching, resumeing, Praxising. I just need to keep my head and not throw glasses when angry like my friend Lisa does--I just need to hang in there and know that I will have a place of my own ( Read more... )

Researching teaching in a public school in England and it sounds pretty awful. I talked on the phone today with a woman from a recruitment agency and she said that teachers here who specialize in EBD and other behavioral problems--have worked in alternative schools are still culture shocked by the public schools in England. What's the problem ( Read more... )

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March 21-2008, this does not bode all that well, friends.


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