Fall just exploded this weekend.
Leaves all over the ground, crunchy.
And it was really chilly.
These are some things I did:
Drive-in movie
Electric guitar lesson
afternoon nap
ate veggie pizza
had a talk with Laura Jones
and her friend Kevin
about being liberal
christians
and ooohhh, was it nice.
I thought chris and I were
the only ones.

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I am not much older than the students that I teach, but sometimes I am struck by how much older than them I feel...Today was a day like that. It's almost the end of the first quarter at Hughes, and the kids are getting totally antsy. Today I was so annoyed with all of them! The talking has been getting out of control in my first block class, so ( Read more... )

Today at school I learned how to teach without a voice -- Squeak out as much as you can and hope for the mercy of your freshmen students...I have laryngitis. All weekend long I barely had any voice, despite eating a whole bag of cough drops and lots of Vitimin C. This has never happened to me before, but I guess it's just from talking all day every ( Read more... )

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I decided to drive to Oxford and see Chris tonight on a whim. He bought me pizza. I needed to do something impulsive so I wouldn't sit in my apartment alone all night, obsessing about my student teaching. My lesson went pretty well today, but the constant pressure to "teach the test" feels like a ton of bricks. I'm worried that my kids aren't ( Read more... )

This weekend Chris and I went to Ironton for my Grandma's 80th birthday...We were supposed to leave on Saturday morning because Chris was scheduled to work on Friday night. But when he got to work, they didn't need him so we got to leave early. We were both glad because we got to sleep in on Saturday instead of getting up at the crack of dawn to ( Read more... )

Today I feel like a terrible teacher. I took over the freshmen classes this week, and the kids have been so bad. Today was the worst...I gave four detentions for being late to class, and the kids were all pissed and complaining about how they hate this school and want to switch. They were all talking excessively in class. I can't even get their ( Read more... )

I feel like all I ever post about is my student teaching. So I'm going to talk about something else tonight. I spent all weekend with Chris, and it was really enjoyable. We ended up staying in most of the time because we're trying not to spend money. In fact, the only places we went all weekend were Target and church this morning. Do you have any ( Read more... )

It's really discouraging when I try to follow a recipie, and then the food doesn't taste good. Tonight I made Tuna Casserole from "1,000 Lowfat Recipies." It doens't really taste like anything except tuna and cornflakes, even though there are other ingredients in there. Boo. Now I'm stuck with multiple servings of it. That's one of the crappiest ( Read more... )