Finally feeling like I'm getting a handle on things
The first three weeks of school were pretty crazy-like. I felt like I was just treading water in my classroom. I finally am feeling like I know what I need to do, and I'm starting to get semi-organized. I still haven't gotten myself to the point I was at pretty quick last year, where I could arrive around 8:15 and be out the door by 4:00. But I'm getting closer to the 4:00 mark. It hasn't been helpful that I've had 3 8:00 meetings this week, which cuts in to morning prep time. Still, it's getting manageable. The only thing I still feel like I'm struggling with is grading - in kindergarten, you don't keep grades. You just give a star on top if they did something well. In second grade, everything gets graded, though I can't say that I'm keeping every single grade for report cards.
I'm so totally disinterested in my class, it's not even funny. I understand the point of the tutoring, but when you're teaching literacy ALL DAY LONG basically, and then you have to go teach it to somebody you don't know, have no idea what they're getting during the day, and really isn't interested in being there, it's very tiring. I don't know how Emily's doing, but I'm wiped. I just want to finish. I'm not planning to take another class until next fall, so I just have to get to December and I have like 9 months of no academia to enjoy.
Wedding planning is going alright. We met with Sean at Mr. John's yesterday and got some good preliminary flower planning started. On Sunday we are going to look at bridesmaids dresses at David's Bridal - I really hope I find one there that I like, because I really don't want the brutal annoyance and headache of going to ten bridal shops and looking at fifty thousand dresses.
Well I'm going to go do some reading before tonight's Scary Movie Feature - I mean vice presidential debate - begins. Aaron and I watched the presidential debate on Friday. There was not one thing that John McCain said that I agreed with - in fact it didn't seem to me that he really said anything. I can't say at this point that I agree with enough of what Obama said to say for sure that I'd be happy voting for him, but I cheered out loud when he said we need to provide more and better funding for early childhood education. Aaron pointed out that Obama, when answering questions or making counterpoints, looked at McCain or at the camera, so you felt like he was talking to you. McCain was basically talking to the moderator. Also, little thing I noticed that made an impression - after the debate when the candidates wives came up on stage and they were walking off, McCain walked in front of his wife, like he was definitely more important than her. Obama put his hand on his wife's back and guided her off stage. That showed me that he considers her his partner in life. That really said something to me about their personal characters.
I'm so totally disinterested in my class, it's not even funny. I understand the point of the tutoring, but when you're teaching literacy ALL DAY LONG basically, and then you have to go teach it to somebody you don't know, have no idea what they're getting during the day, and really isn't interested in being there, it's very tiring. I don't know how Emily's doing, but I'm wiped. I just want to finish. I'm not planning to take another class until next fall, so I just have to get to December and I have like 9 months of no academia to enjoy.
Wedding planning is going alright. We met with Sean at Mr. John's yesterday and got some good preliminary flower planning started. On Sunday we are going to look at bridesmaids dresses at David's Bridal - I really hope I find one there that I like, because I really don't want the brutal annoyance and headache of going to ten bridal shops and looking at fifty thousand dresses.
Well I'm going to go do some reading before tonight's Scary Movie Feature - I mean vice presidential debate - begins. Aaron and I watched the presidential debate on Friday. There was not one thing that John McCain said that I agreed with - in fact it didn't seem to me that he really said anything. I can't say at this point that I agree with enough of what Obama said to say for sure that I'd be happy voting for him, but I cheered out loud when he said we need to provide more and better funding for early childhood education. Aaron pointed out that Obama, when answering questions or making counterpoints, looked at McCain or at the camera, so you felt like he was talking to you. McCain was basically talking to the moderator. Also, little thing I noticed that made an impression - after the debate when the candidates wives came up on stage and they were walking off, McCain walked in front of his wife, like he was definitely more important than her. Obama put his hand on his wife's back and guided her off stage. That showed me that he considers her his partner in life. That really said something to me about their personal characters.