I had a lit review due tonight. I had been working on it on and off for almost a week. The professor had put up some examples, plus some instructions, but the examples and instructions weren't in the smae place. (That's my excuse,BTW) I had started it on Tuesday, but got sort of struck and came back to it late on Wedensday. I went back to the ( Read more... )

when the only thing that redeems your day is the fact that somebody else's day was worse. To put a cap on my day, my dad just called. The hotel I made reservations for my mom and dad tonight was closed when they got there tonight. My sister then called and said, "You don't need to be making reservations for mom and dad anymore. To make a long story ( Read more... )

I'm feeling overwhelmed right now. I have so much to do in the next four days, and I can't get my mnd turned in the right direction to begin. I haven't ever got a good grip on what I'm supposed to do in my classroom research class, and here I am at the end of the semester, and I still don't know what I'm supposed to do next. I guess I'll find four ( Read more... )

Has anybody here used Zotero for a research paper? I've heard that it's really a good way to do research, but I'm confused by all the bells and whistles. I need Zotero for dummies!

A long time ago I read in a review of Dead Poets Society about how a teacher's life is a cycle of renewal and loss. Since then, I've  looked at my life in that way; new chances in the Fall, and loss and moving on in the Spring with graduation and the end of the school year ( Read more... )

At homecoming back in November A brought me the "Milkshake Song" for me to make "school appropriate" by cutting all the "cuss words" out of the song. He was planning to perform a dance routine for the womanless beauty pagent ( Read more... )

Starting the school week on a Thursday is just *wrong*. It was cold, and I had trouble just jumpstarting myself back into the grind. I don't know if it was the back to work, or the cold or something else, but I have a headache and it just won't quit ( Read more... )

Met with both of my 'extra' groups of school kids today ( Read more... )

The cheer coach at a neighboring school district basically dropped dead at a game at the state tournament last week. She never married or had children of her own; her life was apparently her work and her kids at school. They had her funeral at their gym on Saturday ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I teach in a small rural high school. My second period "B" day kids are providing lots of uh...entertainment for me this year.

I should warn you that there are few candidates for brain surgeon in this class. If by some accident to become doctors, I'm keeping my tumor.

We're taking notes. ( I'm lucky that the technology ( Read more... )