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I'M GOING TO IRELAND OVER CHRISTMAS BREAK.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I am tired.  Kids are tired.  I don't want to grade assessments.  They don't want to do assessments.  If only the county could agree with us that assesments are eating our time.  Nom nom nom ( Read more... )

The rain has been a blessing.  I've woken up the past two days without a headache, which is something that hasn't happened in two weeks.  I can breathe.  I fall asleep to the patter and I know things are okay.  I can wrap up in a blanket and feel the cold seeping into my bones and I think of how I've missed it.  It's such a good friend.  It subdues ( Read more... )

 I put a post-it note on my cork board facing me that says, "In five years, you must be living in Ireland."

 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html

This is one of the coolest things...ever.  I'm not kidding.  It's a little long, so take a half an hour and watch it.  Basically, it's a lecture done by Dave Eggers (mmm, I'm pretty sure he wrote  A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis) about a ( Read more... )

 When the kids found out it was my birthday today, there were varied responses ( Read more... )

I don't want to grow up.

Getting stupid adult stuff with your paycheck/for your birthday  blows.

 So, this morning I woke up after a long conversation with Jason resulting in pretty much nothing and I thought, man, I need to start thinking about other things than a dead end relationship.  So I looked up some schools that Rockingham County will pay me for if I get my M.A.  Two options ( Read more... )

 Teaching today reminded me of why I could never, in a hundred years, be an elementary school teacher.