I've been feeling entirely too angsty for the past several days, and I just figured out why ( Read more... )

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Ah, the last day of school. I'm glad we all survived another intense school year together. It was rough--not only in my classroom but also in the entire school. I learned a lot of difficult lessons and ended up getting a little bruised through all of it. Once, it was literal bruising...

Monday we are saying goodbye to one of the best teachers I've ( Read more... )

Lately I've been in super-ranteriffic mode. So much has happened and is being talked about that I'm about to explode--actually I did tonight a little bit. Between watching my students fail and being unable to do anything about it to hearing about how bad the Obama administration is for education and special education, and finally having to firmly ( Read more... )

These past few weeks have been rough, but I remember what my grandma said. Never feel too sorry for yourself because there's always someone out there worse off than you. It's true, but we as humans are entitled to some self pity here and there.

Anyways, my work week was short since I was blasted with a nasty case of sinusitis that left me with ( Read more... )

It feels like Sunday morning when in fact it's Sunday afternoon. Getting up at 11:00am will do that. Last night I slept a total of 13 hours after getting sick from ice cream at Coldstone. Being a lactard is for sucks--especially when I love ice cream. Oh well. I did want to go out last night really bad, but my body wanted otherwise ( Read more... )

I went to my first educational conference today. It was very...educational. Actually, I did learn a lot, and I'm anxious to try things with my students throughout the remainder of the year ( Read more... )

I just hand-wrote approximately 5.1 pages in my paper journal, and my hand hurts ( Read more... )

One month it's been since I last updated this journal. I've had so much to say, yet at the same time I've had nothing. Most of the time, my thoughts are cyclical so I'm really just repeating myself whenever I do take the time to write things down ( Read more... )

I'm so glad it's Saturday. This week has been rough with school and some life stuff, but in retrospect it could have been a lot worse with the exception of the violence that consumed my Friday afternoon. In addition, when these things happen, I need to remind myself that these things shouldn't consume my life like I let them. When my kids are so ( Read more... )