Knock on wood but I love this year so far.
I am advising the club, "So, you think you can dance?"
I am advising the class of 2011 for the next four years.
I teach allllll freshmen and they rock!
So far, so good.

My classes have no been changed.
Thank God.
Applied to be the freshmen co-advisor.
Hopefully I'll get that.
Found out I got a $4000 raise... nice.
And if I get the advisor position, it's another $1400 (and keeps going up til it hits $2000 a year by their senior year).
Sweet.
Met the kids on orientation day on Thursday and they actually seem really ( Read more... )

After 10 blissful summer vacation weeks, I am back to work tomorrow.
The kids don't come until Monday, however.
As of this moment I am teaching 5 world history freshmen classes.
Three honors. Two college prep.
Life is good :)
Who knows what will be changed by tomorrow.
But I feel ready to go back so it's all good.

Since I have been bitching and depressed and moody on here lately, I thought I would update you on something good.
Yesterday I my kids baked me a birthday cake and cookies since I was out sick on Friday (Jan 5- I'm 24!!!)
Today I got Teacher of the Month for December.

I got an email this morning from my principal saying that a student at school was killed in a car accident this weekend but they didn't say who.
That drives me nuts.
I'd rather not know unless I have the full information.
Gladly I just found out and it wasn't one of my students but tomorrow will be a rough day.

From the world of weird:
My window in my classroom directly faces the Christian school I attended for 7 & 8 grades.
Someone was walking in the very sparse woods between us and my juniors were saying it was someone from the Christian school.
So I segued into the fact that I went there for two years.
My student then told me that she also had gone there ( Read more... )

My school has a district calendar that you can play with and view into the distant future but the furthest it goes is December 2039...
It, OF COURSE, made me think about how old I would be by then REGARDLESS of the fact that I may or may not still be at Northbridge.
By the way, I will be 56 (almost 57) by then...
My LITTLE brother will be 54.
Making ( Read more... )

All of the teachers in my department are married.
Most of the teachers in my school are married, with kids.
Most of the teachers in my school are within 5 years old of me...
It makes me want to kill myself.

So one of the weird things about one of the classes I am teaching is that instead of, for example teaching about Rome then Greece then Middle Ages then Africa... they do it thematically.
So... I open with Government.
And I teach them about government in Rome then Greece then Middle Ages then Africa etc...
Then I do religion in Rome, then Greece then ( Read more... )

True to form, after my first day I am having panic attacks.
Mild ones.
Very mild ones...
In comparison to the past two years.
Every single year I get like this and I just wish that I had an easier time beginning things in life.
I really suck at it.
I just start to worry about every little thing which leads me to worry about other little things like my ( Read more... )