State of the Janet....
I don't know what is wrong. My vision has been blurry since I woke up from a nap on Sunday. It's not bad, just slightly...disturbing. And yes, I DID clean my glasses!.
I'm slightly scratchy throat-like, but nothing to even worry about. No nose stuff yet. I'm just. BLAH. Feeling out of sorts and a bit worried about this feeling, especially since it has now been like 4 days. I don't feel bad enough for a doctor's visit, but I'm definitely NOT at 100%. More like 80%, with no understandable reason for the loss. of 20% of my capacity.
I passed my evaluation. Oh, did I tell you about that? Oh well, interwebz, you get to hear it again. I'm the exact middle hire of my department. 19 people, 9 above me, 9 below me. To fire me, unless I royally screwed up, they would have to go through 9 people. I'm pretty safe. My admin came in twice (not sure why, contract allows for one observation (drive by as we call 'em)), but either he was bored, he missed being in the class, or I'm that damned GOOD, but he came back to watch, of all things, a TEST review. BLARGH. Had my meeting with him yesterday and I got good reviews. YAY.
Then the better review. One of my students (she's not even PASSING!!!) told me that I was by far her fav teacher (we were alone, she was retaking a test, there was no one to "pose" for). I laughed and asked why and she told me "Because you are HARD. You make us think, make things part of our lives, and because you make me work my butt off for your approval. Mrs. Smith, why do I want your approval so much? Oh, and because you are always making us try to be more than just a lousy sophomore. And you do NOT backdown, change your mind, you apologize for your mistakes and you contantly tell us that we need to be more."
Hell yeah. All these years of trying to be the weird teacher, and I'm succeeding in an area I wasn't trying for!
WOOT.
I'm slightly scratchy throat-like, but nothing to even worry about. No nose stuff yet. I'm just. BLAH. Feeling out of sorts and a bit worried about this feeling, especially since it has now been like 4 days. I don't feel bad enough for a doctor's visit, but I'm definitely NOT at 100%. More like 80%, with no understandable reason for the loss. of 20% of my capacity.
I passed my evaluation. Oh, did I tell you about that? Oh well, interwebz, you get to hear it again. I'm the exact middle hire of my department. 19 people, 9 above me, 9 below me. To fire me, unless I royally screwed up, they would have to go through 9 people. I'm pretty safe. My admin came in twice (not sure why, contract allows for one observation (drive by as we call 'em)), but either he was bored, he missed being in the class, or I'm that damned GOOD, but he came back to watch, of all things, a TEST review. BLARGH. Had my meeting with him yesterday and I got good reviews. YAY.
Then the better review. One of my students (she's not even PASSING!!!) told me that I was by far her fav teacher (we were alone, she was retaking a test, there was no one to "pose" for). I laughed and asked why and she told me "Because you are HARD. You make us think, make things part of our lives, and because you make me work my butt off for your approval. Mrs. Smith, why do I want your approval so much? Oh, and because you are always making us try to be more than just a lousy sophomore. And you do NOT backdown, change your mind, you apologize for your mistakes and you contantly tell us that we need to be more."
Hell yeah. All these years of trying to be the weird teacher, and I'm succeeding in an area I wasn't trying for!
WOOT.