I had what I think I might almost term a heartwarming moment today. I was tutoring, and somehow my student and I (she's 14, for the record) got sidetracked on bad decisions - or doing stupid things, as she put it. And I said, even smart people do stupid things sometimes. And she said, but not you, right ( Read more... )

omg Governor's School.

That is all.

The other day, shortly before I geared myself up to discuss with my parents, particularly with my father, the breakdown of communication between us, my father said that he was surprised that I was looking for a job teaching. When I asked him why, he said that he'd always thought I was going to go really far with my writing and that my talent was ( Read more... )

I just had the weirdest dream. I was in my first classroom, and some of my old students were in it - ones that shouldn't be. English 12 standard, and some of them already took it and passed, and one of them was in advanced English. Crazy. But I was talking about some short story with them, and it went pretty well. But apparently that was the ( Read more... )

I have spent over twice as many hours in the Writing Center in the past three days as I spent in the previous two weeks. On not nearly enough sleep. And I haven't been getting my other work done, because I've either been here, or too brain-dead from being here and being sleep-deprived to think. I have two final projects due in the next two and a ( Read more... )

I went in to the Writing Center to talk to Professor Essid yesterday, and I had to sit outside for a minute or two. I don't remember how it happened, exactly, but the administrative assistant asked if I was a new tutor. She was new last semester, so of course since I didn't exist back then, she didn't know me. I told her no, I had just taken ( Read more... )

I am not pleased to have to use that icon twice in a row ( Read more... )

It is 5:30 in the morning and I am having nightmares about zombies. I had to get up and start doing something else so as to haul my mind onto some other track. I just hope it works ( Read more... )

Shit, this is so depressing. I keep on finding out that schools that I'm really interested in working in won't work, for one reason or another. Either the location is bad, or they're not hiring, or they simply won't take anyone without at least X years of experience. That's what just happened with one that I was starting to get really excited ( Read more... )

So yesterday I went to contact for the first time in probably months, and then I went to trials for my orange belt. I am very sore. But it was great to go to contact. I had been excited for the past two days about the fact that I was finally going. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed it. I'd just been either buried in work, or too exhausted ( Read more... )