I'm so married...and yet so alone
Ok, I'm not REALLY alone - I have my hubby and my 2 kitties. However, I teach 40+ hours a week. I say 40+ because legally I'm supposed to have 1 hour of prep time every day, as required by the state of WI Department of Public Instruction, but due to the fact that I teach K-12 and have 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, I'm not actually getting my full hour of prep time in a whole chunk of time. Some of that time is traveling between schools (which I do 4 times EVERY STINKING DAY) and when I do have a chunk of prep, I'm required to give lessons to choir kids. So I end up doing my prep time on my own time, and thus, I work between 45 and 50 hours most weeks, and I don't get overtime or anything for it. I've brought the issue up with my administrators, and they just tell me to deal with it. I bring it up to my mentor (the band teacher) and he doesn't know what to do because he has all the time in the world only teaching 2 sections of band and 2 sections of general music.
Anyways, to make a long story short, I'm applying for other jobs. I got recruited today by a school in a town by Madison, but I'm not going to teach K-12 again. I'm applying for a M.S. job in La Crosse where I can teach and do theater and show choir with them - right up my alley. However, I've been told I'm the best teacher Cashton has seen in 5 years (though that's not saying much because I've heard that the last few teachers were total idiots).
But, now to get to why I'm lonely...I just don't have friends anymore. I got married, all my friends are graduated and living elsewhere, and I'm here. But the good news is that Matt and I are thinking about starting a family very soon. But then I REALLY won't have any friends beacuse who wants to hang around a lady with a kid hanging from her boob all day?
Anyways, to make a long story short, I'm applying for other jobs. I got recruited today by a school in a town by Madison, but I'm not going to teach K-12 again. I'm applying for a M.S. job in La Crosse where I can teach and do theater and show choir with them - right up my alley. However, I've been told I'm the best teacher Cashton has seen in 5 years (though that's not saying much because I've heard that the last few teachers were total idiots).
But, now to get to why I'm lonely...I just don't have friends anymore. I got married, all my friends are graduated and living elsewhere, and I'm here. But the good news is that Matt and I are thinking about starting a family very soon. But then I REALLY won't have any friends beacuse who wants to hang around a lady with a kid hanging from her boob all day?