Would someone please sing me a lullaby?
I have been getting nowhere near enough sleep lately. I just have more work to do than there are hours in the day for… and I’m trying to be physically active and maintain other parts of my life as well. So let it be known that tonight, for the [...]
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Perhaps I have been a bit curmudgeonly the last week or so. I could present a dozen or so lousy excuses, but instead of dwelling on it I would rather point out some lovely things from the past 24 hours of my life:
1.) Yesterday at work, a few teachers and I threw a surprise party for one [...]
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Yeah. It’s blizzarding. The snow is already being measured in feet, and it is still coming down, and according to meteorologists it will continue to do so for another 24 hours… just in time for my 27th birthday on Monday.
Speaking of which… over the past week or so I have become increasingly aware of the [...]
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Repeat from last year: it’s Valentine’s day week, and school is cancelled today due to sub-zero temperatures — and likely to be closed tomorrow due to a big snowstorm we should be getting overnight. In some ways this is a perk of being in education (but for the record, this is NOT totally a day [...]
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(*yes, that was a conscious reference to the Tori Amos song. :))
Well, here goes: the first annual Year In Review post. Oh-seven has been a year of drastic changes and events, so I figured it was worth it.
mid-late Winter - went to Las Vegas with girlfriends, where my purse went for a swim in [...]
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At some point every single day, I think about something I’d like to write a post about. Maybe even something interesting, funny, thought-provoking or touching. However, lately I never have time to actually sit down and put it into words that make sense and I don’t mind everyone and their brother’s nephew’s next-door neighbor’s dentist’s daughter-in-law [...]
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And what a wonderful city it is. I had an amazing time. I landed back home a few hours ago and then passed out for a looong time… I had only slept for four out of the past 48 hours… bleh. It’s going to be a few hours or days before I can give a [...]
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Please envision this little scene from my classroom today (my “Arrrrgh” class period of the year, no less.):
We are going over a vocabulary practice assignment that was last night’s homework, due at the beginning of class today. I frequently do this unannounced so that the kids will give it an honest shot (would YOU actually [...]
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No. Not tonight. I know that yesterday I told my students (AND posted on my classroom website) that I would have everything from this week posted by 5 PM on Friday (that’s today, in about 23 minutes as I type these words), and I know that their parents’ tax dollars pay my generous (as [...]
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Great quote from Mark Twain:
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
And since I am feeling a bit quote-happy after an exhausting day of attempting to foster dialog amongst my students, here are a few more good ones.
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are [...]
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