Posts under ‘work’

I really wasn’t sure how today was going to work out when I got out of bed this morning. I woke up tired and sore, as if I had worked a regular day, had 2 hours of cello lesson/practice and performed in a very long but very fun version of Peter Pan staged by the [...]

… gave the Grade 8′s the freedom to create their own project. They were given a wiki space and links to the Facebook Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Their mission is to “decode” it (their term) and reword it so that someone their age could understand it; how they do it is [...]

I stepped into my first classroom ten years ago yesterday. This is officially the longest I have had a job ever. And definitely the longest I have had a job that I have (mostly) liked. I feel pretty fortunate that I fell into something that is valuable,  meaningful and challenging. I do wish it paid me [...]

~ I haven’t posted much lately. ~ How come? ~ I just don’t feel that I have anything interesting to say. ~ Like that’s stopping anyone else. ~ Good point. ********** So here I am, laying in bed trying to get comfortable. My back didn’t like something about how I turned the shower on this morning, and [...]

In the next five days, I have to: Mark 89 61 27assignments. Calculate 85 20 term marks. Write 85 57 20 individual and somewhat unique report card comments. Organize 9 7 lesson plans for missed classes next week. Bribe 1 teacher to do my corrections while I’m away. Go to 3 2 appointments for various aesthetic reasons. Do [...]

People ask me how I’m doing, how school is going, and I say fine as if that were the truth. It’s not, not really. Some people read between the lines of the Wondering post a few weeks ago, and tried to offer some advice. I appreciated it, truly I did, but the gods’ honest truth [...]

I’m not teaching for most of this week as I’m communing with my people. Three days surrounded by people who speak the same language I do, who grok what I’m trying to do because they’re trying to do it to. Three days of hanging out with geek teachers. Three days of not being the only [...]

This week is not shaping up well. The lunatics are taking over the asylum, and I am oh so tired of fighting for control. I don’t work here because of the pay or because of the benefits (laughable, both). I don’t work here because of the long breaks, which I do NOT get paid for in spite of [...]

It was a bit of a shit day. It began to go south when I was the lucky recipient of the most passive aggressive email in the history of passive aggressive emails ever sent by the most passive aggressive woman I have ever met. Yay me. I’m just lucky that way. I lost my keys [...]

I received an email on Friday that asked how the first week back at school went. All I can come up with for an answer is that it has it gone as it always does. With me being woefully unprepared. I am thoroughly unprepared to teach. I’ve spent about two weeks getting the computers in [...]