* When I can have fun with my students and they pinkey swear me they will get their homework in tomorrow
* When they're actually mildly interested in learning about historical figures like Miguel Hidalgo and Simon Bolivar
* When 75 % of them turn in their homework
* When I have a clear plan of where the week will go
* When students say hello to me at the door without me prompting them first
* When almost everyone in my class got A's on this week's quiz
* When I forget about how far behind in my pacing guide I am
* When students share with me how much they liked the new Harry Potter movie (knowing I went to the midnight show)
* When I realize my honors government seniors are smarter than the average citizen and can recall which amendment provided for direct election of senators (17) and which one the Lame Duck amendment is (20) three months after we learned it back in September
* When I can come home and curl up with a glass of Merlot on a cold rainy day and not have to worry about grading 40 essays
Sadly the last one is not true today as I have a ton of papers to grade. The good news is all the other ones are!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Follow-up to "Someone You Should Know"
Remember my "Someone You Should Know" entry a couple months ago (or my "First Love" entry)? Well, apparently I'm not the only one who thinks the world should know this young man. His local paper ran a story on him, which you can check out here.
I am so happy to see him smiling and looking towards the future. I hope it brings a smile to your face as well!
I am so happy to see him smiling and looking towards the future. I hope it brings a smile to your face as well!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
30 Great Details: Your Definition of Love
So the first thing that popped into my head when I read the prompt was this:
That is my opinion of love! "Baby, don't hurt me!" My last two relationships have been enough to make me pretty skittish about the whole thing. Obviously there are a lot of different kinds of love - family love/platonic love/romantic love. The last is something I've only experienced in brief flashes. I thought I was in love when I started up this blog back in February, but it wasn't reciprocal. I was in love with someone who *thought*, or perhaps even wanted to be, in love. Of course, I didn't know that until he broke my heart not so many months ago, so if you'd asked me this question back in February I probably would have had a very different answer for you.
I'm going to cop out on this Great Detail and cede to my favorite quote on love by Paramahansa Yogananda: "To describe love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love."
Sadly, I think all I've ever really tasted has been artificial orange flavoring.
That is my opinion of love! "Baby, don't hurt me!" My last two relationships have been enough to make me pretty skittish about the whole thing. Obviously there are a lot of different kinds of love - family love/platonic love/romantic love. The last is something I've only experienced in brief flashes. I thought I was in love when I started up this blog back in February, but it wasn't reciprocal. I was in love with someone who *thought*, or perhaps even wanted to be, in love. Of course, I didn't know that until he broke my heart not so many months ago, so if you'd asked me this question back in February I probably would have had a very different answer for you.
I'm going to cop out on this Great Detail and cede to my favorite quote on love by Paramahansa Yogananda: "To describe love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love."
Sadly, I think all I've ever really tasted has been artificial orange flavoring.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Your Life in Great Details: What you ate today in great detail
I expect lots of criticism after this post, but welcome to the life of a stressed out 2nd year teacher. I don't eat as much or as well as I should.
Breakfast = Carnation Breakfast Essential, which I drink in my travel mug on the way to work. I got this REALLY nice Longaberger travel mug from one of my 10th graders last year for Christmas. I felt really bad because I never used it 'cos I don't drink coffee. I like that I have found a use for it and having a travel mug with me in the car stupidly makes me feel somehow more professional.
Lunch = $2.50 cafeteria lunch. I NEVER bought lunch last year, but started to this year when A) I realized that I could get a pretty decent lunch every day of the week for $12.50. B) The kids really enjoy seeing you in the cafeteria! Former students say hello and the principal is always there with something to say (I got a week's worth of trash talking last month in the week preceding a school fundraiser 5k where we ran against each other). I usually just grab a salad from the lunch line. The salad is a pretty sad looking chef salad, but it's a lot better than any of the options ever offered to me when I was in high school. It's usually just iceberg lettuce and a carrot or two, a couple cucumbers, sometimes a piece of broccoli or cauliflower. Then there are little containers of ham, cheese, croutons, fake bacon bits, and some ranch dressing. That's what it was today. I also ate snacked on a bag of Fritos during my planning period. And two banana Laffy Taffys. I have been snacking on my reject Halloween candy for the past week, but I am glad to say today I just started handing it out to all my kids. I have no willpower and I would eat those Laffy Taffys all up. So I just started having "candy questions" by 6th period and any kid who answered a question right got candy. It's insane what those kids will do for candy!
Anyway, back to what I ate today. I drank 1 Nalgene of water while I was at school. I'm sipping one mini can of Mountain Dew as I write this (I'm sleepy and as I don't drink coffee it is my caffeine boost). I heated up some Brunswick Stew that I bought for a basketball team fundraiser last month. It's been sitting in my freezer for weeks so I heated some up today and ate it with a piece of cornbread.
As you can see, my diet on a daily basis has an awful lot to do with my job! Today was actually a much better day than most. I to run out the door without lunch more often than I'd like to admit and there are many days where I work right through my lunch break. Dinner is often a Lean Cuisine frozen dinner unfortunately and I definitely don't cook as much as I would like to, owing to the fact that I get home around 6-6:30 PM and just don't feel like cooking.
Here's to hoping the end of cross-country season means more free time to try out new meals.
Breakfast = Carnation Breakfast Essential, which I drink in my travel mug on the way to work. I got this REALLY nice Longaberger travel mug from one of my 10th graders last year for Christmas. I felt really bad because I never used it 'cos I don't drink coffee. I like that I have found a use for it and having a travel mug with me in the car stupidly makes me feel somehow more professional.
Lunch = $2.50 cafeteria lunch. I NEVER bought lunch last year, but started to this year when A) I realized that I could get a pretty decent lunch every day of the week for $12.50. B) The kids really enjoy seeing you in the cafeteria! Former students say hello and the principal is always there with something to say (I got a week's worth of trash talking last month in the week preceding a school fundraiser 5k where we ran against each other). I usually just grab a salad from the lunch line. The salad is a pretty sad looking chef salad, but it's a lot better than any of the options ever offered to me when I was in high school. It's usually just iceberg lettuce and a carrot or two, a couple cucumbers, sometimes a piece of broccoli or cauliflower. Then there are little containers of ham, cheese, croutons, fake bacon bits, and some ranch dressing. That's what it was today. I also ate snacked on a bag of Fritos during my planning period. And two banana Laffy Taffys. I have been snacking on my reject Halloween candy for the past week, but I am glad to say today I just started handing it out to all my kids. I have no willpower and I would eat those Laffy Taffys all up. So I just started having "candy questions" by 6th period and any kid who answered a question right got candy. It's insane what those kids will do for candy!
Anyway, back to what I ate today. I drank 1 Nalgene of water while I was at school. I'm sipping one mini can of Mountain Dew as I write this (I'm sleepy and as I don't drink coffee it is my caffeine boost). I heated up some Brunswick Stew that I bought for a basketball team fundraiser last month. It's been sitting in my freezer for weeks so I heated some up today and ate it with a piece of cornbread.
As you can see, my diet on a daily basis has an awful lot to do with my job! Today was actually a much better day than most. I to run out the door without lunch more often than I'd like to admit and there are many days where I work right through my lunch break. Dinner is often a Lean Cuisine frozen dinner unfortunately and I definitely don't cook as much as I would like to, owing to the fact that I get home around 6-6:30 PM and just don't feel like cooking.
Here's to hoping the end of cross-country season means more free time to try out new meals.
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