The Rundown
Haven't posted in a while, so thought I'd touch on some stuff.
Work is stressful. Not news, but I'm just amazed that it doesn't really get better, which I think is the situation everybody is in, what with the economy. Usually things are stressful for me, then I get over it. I think it might be time to go back to school, but then I'm afraid it will make things even more stressful. I'm a chicken. I've never really had to work and go to school at the same time.
Hmm... that whiny tone probably deserves a stronger word than "chicken"...
Either way, things at work are going to get tighter. We didn't have enough paraprofessionals with six of us (heck, we don't have enough teachers), and now we are effectively losing two. One to illness, so we don't know how long she'll be out, and another is leaving the state. Our schedules are so tight we need transporters to beam us across campus to keep things on time. In other words, things don't run on time. Then we get told, "Hey, you can't leave John Doe alone for even five minutes." I swear, I'm two seconds away from combining my time and taking fourth graders into the kindergarten class or pulling some kindergartnersinto eighth grade electives.
Then we have weird meetings where we all discuss what the district philosophy on special education is, and if we don't agree then we should quit. Which I then take really personally, even though I do pretty much agree and it was addressed to more than 100 people. Like, do they want me to quit? How many people do they want to quit? Are they telling us all to quit? I know it's not personal, but it's just really been one of those years.
But at least I can irrationally direct my pathetic rage toward a faceless machine I like to call the district. I suppose I could put a face to it, but I think the feeling of an archetypal "Man" keeping me under thumb is the best way to rant and rave right now. Ah delusion and rationalization.
Home life is the same. I'm a bum, I read a lot of comic books.
Still socializing with co-workers which inadvertently led to making new friends. I don't know about this "human contact" thing.
On the comic book front: People should read Spider-Man: Noir. Marvel is coming out with these "Noir" books that take their superheroes and place them in, obviously, noir-type settings. In Spider-Man, Peter Parker is dealing with mobsters, a crooked press, and political angst during the Depression using only his socialist mindset and new found spider powers. There is also an X-Men: Noir that's really interesting and written by Fred Van Lente, who is awesome. I'll have to write about The Incredible Hercules sometime.
Finally, I don't remember the last time I plugged this, so... ... With Class podcasts.
Work is stressful. Not news, but I'm just amazed that it doesn't really get better, which I think is the situation everybody is in, what with the economy. Usually things are stressful for me, then I get over it. I think it might be time to go back to school, but then I'm afraid it will make things even more stressful. I'm a chicken. I've never really had to work and go to school at the same time.
Hmm... that whiny tone probably deserves a stronger word than "chicken"...
Either way, things at work are going to get tighter. We didn't have enough paraprofessionals with six of us (heck, we don't have enough teachers), and now we are effectively losing two. One to illness, so we don't know how long she'll be out, and another is leaving the state. Our schedules are so tight we need transporters to beam us across campus to keep things on time. In other words, things don't run on time. Then we get told, "Hey, you can't leave John Doe alone for even five minutes." I swear, I'm two seconds away from combining my time and taking fourth graders into the kindergarten class or pulling some kindergartnersinto eighth grade electives.
Then we have weird meetings where we all discuss what the district philosophy on special education is, and if we don't agree then we should quit. Which I then take really personally, even though I do pretty much agree and it was addressed to more than 100 people. Like, do they want me to quit? How many people do they want to quit? Are they telling us all to quit? I know it's not personal, but it's just really been one of those years.
But at least I can irrationally direct my pathetic rage toward a faceless machine I like to call the district. I suppose I could put a face to it, but I think the feeling of an archetypal "Man" keeping me under thumb is the best way to rant and rave right now. Ah delusion and rationalization.
Home life is the same. I'm a bum, I read a lot of comic books.
Still socializing with co-workers which inadvertently led to making new friends. I don't know about this "human contact" thing.
On the comic book front: People should read Spider-Man: Noir. Marvel is coming out with these "Noir" books that take their superheroes and place them in, obviously, noir-type settings. In Spider-Man, Peter Parker is dealing with mobsters, a crooked press, and political angst during the Depression using only his socialist mindset and new found spider powers. There is also an X-Men: Noir that's really interesting and written by Fred Van Lente, who is awesome. I'll have to write about The Incredible Hercules sometime.
Finally, I don't remember the last time I plugged this, so... ... With Class podcasts.