OK. SO.
1. Blanket apology to everyone I know at all about the whole "I have fallen off the face of the planet" thing. Sorry. I have fallen off the face of the planet. Please leave a message.
2. Work is very satisfying, but leaves me fairly exhausted.
I love my coworkers.
(Attempting to discover whether or not a particular student is pregnant.)
Peggy: Well, it's sort of awkward to just ask her. "Hey, are you pregnant? OK! Cool! See ya!"
Art: Why don't you use an essay? "What I did over my summer vacation."
BossPerson: Hey, yeah, then we can prove to OtherBossPerson that it sure didn't happen on my watch! She's more than three months along!
SpEd: "What I did over my summer vactaion..."
Peggy: Who.
Them: What?
Peggy: "Who I did over my summer vacation..."
Them: OMGROTFL
(Later today)
BossPerson: Hey, I have another essay for [student]. "Where I see myself in nine months."
We are also discussing starting a first-year-teacher-support-group that meets at La Hacienda for margaritas once a week. YESSS.
My students appear to like me.
Them: [talking]
Me: STOP. TALKING.
Them: [pause... talking]
Me: STOP IT! STOP IT!
[deep breath]
Look, I am not trying to be the crabbiest teacher you have ever met, but I am getting sick and it is making me annoyed and we have a lot of important stuff to get through today so I need you to please FOCUS, okay?
Them: [are quiet for, like, ten minutes... and then continue talking]
BUT--ten minutes is a long time for a person with an average attention span of fifteen minutes!! This I take much more seriously as a mark of their esteem for me than all of their "Ms Larkin, you're our favorite teeeeacher!" wheedling and suck-uppery.
3. I hope I'm not getting sick. It may have been a combo of Construction Dust and lack-of-caffiene-because-I-cleverly-went-cold-turkey, though, because once I had a shower and split a coke with Kehla, I felt much better.
4. I love living with Kehla! It is SO NICE to have a person to come home to sometimes! Even if that person does occasionally steal one's DVDs and leave them scattered around outside their cases, and also litter the apartment with empty coke cans like some sort of demented Easter bunny!!*
5. The hot tub at our apartment is broken (ie, a cold tub). What gives, Marott? Too good to heat up our freakin' water? I WANT A HOT TUB NOW KTHXBYE. At least the sauna still works. [/sympathy]
6. Here are my school breaks:
Oct. 9-13 (effectively 7-15, though, because of weekends): FALL BREAK
November 23-25: THANKSGIVING
Dec. 23-Jan. 7: CHRISTMAS XMAS WINTER BREAK
Jan. 13-25: MLK DAY
Feb. 17-19: PREZ'S DAY
Mar. 31-Apr. 8: APRIL FOOLS' DAY PREP/RECOVERY SPRING BREAK! (WOO!)
May 26-28: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
June 16-July 27: SUMMER VACATION WOOOOOOOOOOOO!
If you want visits, let me know. :D (By which I mean: if one of these breaks sounds more convenient than others for me to visit you during, let me know. I will be in Cincinnati for Thanksgiving and some of Winter Break, possibly for Easter, and definitely at some point during summer va-cay, so if you will be there too, let's meet up!)
I am thinking out Tejas in the wintery times, and Baltimore/DC during the fall break. Courtney/Erin, Clare, do those times sound good-ish?
Marla, if you are reading, do you want visiting? When in September will you be up Indiana-wards, and do you want to hang out?
WHO NEEDS MYSPACE? I
*I really seriously love living with Kehla, despite some slight frustrations. Of course, I left a neon pink bike in the middle of the living room, so clearly I am not exempt from blame. Also we both need to work on doing dishes. Also she is smart and fun and YES I have an AWESOME ROOMMATE! YESSS!
2. Work is very satisfying, but leaves me fairly exhausted.
I love my coworkers.
(Attempting to discover whether or not a particular student is pregnant.)
Peggy: Well, it's sort of awkward to just ask her. "Hey, are you pregnant? OK! Cool! See ya!"
Art: Why don't you use an essay? "What I did over my summer vacation."
BossPerson: Hey, yeah, then we can prove to OtherBossPerson that it sure didn't happen on my watch! She's more than three months along!
SpEd: "What I did over my summer vactaion..."
Peggy: Who.
Them: What?
Peggy: "Who I did over my summer vacation..."
Them: OMGROTFL
(Later today)
BossPerson: Hey, I have another essay for [student]. "Where I see myself in nine months."
We are also discussing starting a first-year-teacher-support-group that meets at La Hacienda for margaritas once a week. YESSS.
My students appear to like me.
Them: [talking]
Me: STOP. TALKING.
Them: [pause... talking]
Me: STOP IT! STOP IT!
[deep breath]
Look, I am not trying to be the crabbiest teacher you have ever met, but I am getting sick and it is making me annoyed and we have a lot of important stuff to get through today so I need you to please FOCUS, okay?
Them: [are quiet for, like, ten minutes... and then continue talking]
BUT--ten minutes is a long time for a person with an average attention span of fifteen minutes!! This I take much more seriously as a mark of their esteem for me than all of their "Ms Larkin, you're our favorite teeeeacher!" wheedling and suck-uppery.
3. I hope I'm not getting sick. It may have been a combo of Construction Dust and lack-of-caffiene-because-I-cleverly-went-cold-turkey, though, because once I had a shower and split a coke with Kehla, I felt much better.
4. I love living with Kehla! It is SO NICE to have a person to come home to sometimes! Even if that person does occasionally steal one's DVDs and leave them scattered around outside their cases, and also litter the apartment with empty coke cans like some sort of demented Easter bunny!!*
5. The hot tub at our apartment is broken (ie, a cold tub). What gives, Marott? Too good to heat up our freakin' water? I WANT A HOT TUB NOW KTHXBYE. At least the sauna still works. [/sympathy]
6. Here are my school breaks:
Oct. 9-13 (effectively 7-15, though, because of weekends): FALL BREAK
November 23-25: THANKSGIVING
Dec. 23-Jan. 7: CHRISTMAS XMAS WINTER BREAK
Jan. 13-25: MLK DAY
Feb. 17-19: PREZ'S DAY
Mar. 31-Apr. 8: APRIL FOOLS' DAY PREP/RECOVERY SPRING BREAK! (WOO!)
May 26-28: MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
June 16-July 27: SUMMER VACATION WOOOOOOOOOOOO!
If you want visits, let me know. :D (By which I mean: if one of these breaks sounds more convenient than others for me to visit you during, let me know. I will be in Cincinnati for Thanksgiving and some of Winter Break, possibly for Easter, and definitely at some point during summer va-cay, so if you will be there too, let's meet up!)
I am thinking out Tejas in the wintery times, and Baltimore/DC during the fall break. Courtney/Erin, Clare, do those times sound good-ish?
Marla, if you are reading, do you want visiting? When in September will you be up Indiana-wards, and do you want to hang out?
WHO NEEDS MYSPACE? I
*I really seriously love living with Kehla, despite some slight frustrations. Of course, I left a neon pink bike in the middle of the living room, so clearly I am not exempt from blame. Also we both need to work on doing dishes. Also she is smart and fun and YES I have an AWESOME ROOMMATE! YESSS!