just cause someone suggested i post an update...
Well, here it is a couple weeks later. I've kinda abandoned LJ as of lately. I guess mainly just cause I haven't felt like I've had anything interesting to say. Things have been pretty humdrum. Cory started a new teaching job at a school about an hour north of here... it's been a rough adjustment for him for various reasons which I won't get into on here. He has to get up realllly early & I've been trying to get up early with him. Most times I end up going back to sleep for an hour or two after he leaves. I just don't have the motivation to accomplish anything between 6 & 8am. I can't wait til it starts to get light out earlier... which will also bring nicer/warmer weather. I think i'll be happier then. I look forward to getting up early to go out & walk/run around here. Oh & btw I'm pretty much living here in Stratford fulltime now. Not that anyone really cares.
Anyways... my job is really trying. I can't think of the last time I had a good week. Hell, a good *day* would be welcome. Every day there's at least one class that's problematic. I'm starting to really internalize everything and it's taking its toll on me. I'm really wishing I worked at a different school where there weren't so many discipline/classroom management issues. Starting next month I'm gonna start constantly perusing njhire.com to see if I can score an interview for another school to work in next year. A private school or a school in a well-to-do area with smart, well-behaved kids would be stellar. UGH. I keep trying to find new ways to be effective and crack down on certain classes/students but ugghh, I'm just not a natural disciplarian. I keep trying & don't feel like I'm making much progress. Blahhhh... stupid job. I'm only there for half the day but at the end of the day it feels like so much longer.
I can't really think of anything super interesting to say. Except I can't wait til my 10-day spring break in April (I reallllly wanna go somewhere or do something, just not sure what). I just need to make it til June somehow & then I'll be freeeee
Oh & note to self: letting a group of 24 second graders act out a song in groups = baddddd idea. Never again! Funny though, cause apparently a group of 12 third graders have no problem at all with said task.
Well Cory has been in a self-induced Xanax'd/slightly drunken state of sleep since about 8:30 so i'm spending the night here by myself, feeling frustrated & a little lonely. fun times! perhaps something more interesting next time
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addendum: oh yes, i forgot. new Lily Allen album = crack. seriously. i listened to it a couple times & the songs all embedded themselves in my brain and wouldn't go away. like, to the point that i'd be laying in bed @ 6am and song fragments would start running through my mind and repeating non-stop and i couldn't fall back asleep because of it. i stopped listening to it a couple days ago. haha. seriously... anyone who doesn't believe me... i'll UL the album & you can listen for yourself.
Anyways... my job is really trying. I can't think of the last time I had a good week. Hell, a good *day* would be welcome. Every day there's at least one class that's problematic. I'm starting to really internalize everything and it's taking its toll on me. I'm really wishing I worked at a different school where there weren't so many discipline/classroom management issues. Starting next month I'm gonna start constantly perusing njhire.com to see if I can score an interview for another school to work in next year. A private school or a school in a well-to-do area with smart, well-behaved kids would be stellar. UGH. I keep trying to find new ways to be effective and crack down on certain classes/students but ugghh, I'm just not a natural disciplarian. I keep trying & don't feel like I'm making much progress. Blahhhh... stupid job. I'm only there for half the day but at the end of the day it feels like so much longer.
I can't really think of anything super interesting to say. Except I can't wait til my 10-day spring break in April (I reallllly wanna go somewhere or do something, just not sure what). I just need to make it til June somehow & then I'll be freeeee
Oh & note to self: letting a group of 24 second graders act out a song in groups = baddddd idea. Never again! Funny though, cause apparently a group of 12 third graders have no problem at all with said task.
Well Cory has been in a self-induced Xanax'd/slightly drunken state of sleep since about 8:30 so i'm spending the night here by myself, feeling frustrated & a little lonely. fun times! perhaps something more interesting next time
~~
addendum: oh yes, i forgot. new Lily Allen album = crack. seriously. i listened to it a couple times & the songs all embedded themselves in my brain and wouldn't go away. like, to the point that i'd be laying in bed @ 6am and song fragments would start running through my mind and repeating non-stop and i couldn't fall back asleep because of it. i stopped listening to it a couple days ago. haha. seriously... anyone who doesn't believe me... i'll UL the album & you can listen for yourself.