Category Archives: Work

The things I get paid to do.

Expect the idiot

Categories: Education, Work

It’s the end of the semester. And I’d actually be disappointed if I didn’t have at least one student send a frantic email asking what extra they could do to get an A, or can’t I round an 86 up to an A. Keep reading

A long winter’s nap

Categories: Education, Work

It’s been a long semester. More than once I’ve slipped and called my backpack a suitcase. Which to me means that it and I have spent far too much time gone this semester. It’s starting to get to me and wearing on me. Time for it to be over. Keep reading

I remember at 29

Categories: Education, Family, Life, Relationships, Remembers, Work

I remember at 29 wondering if quitting one thing would mean I’d always quit when things weren’t so much fun any more. … I worried that quitting a job when I didn’t like it any more meant I’d quit other things, like perhaps a marriage (hey! nobody ever said my fears were rational!), when they stopped being enjoyable as well. Keep reading

I remember at 28

Categories: Education, Happy Things, Remembers, Work

I remember at 28 … The teachers stood to clap for me and I felt so small because so many of them are amazing teachers that I look up to and so many of them deserve to be honored too. Keep reading

I remember at 26

Categories: Remembers, Work

I remember at 26 taking on an additional project at work that meant I had to get to work even earlier, and on my normal days off (I taught computers Tuesday through Thursday). Keep reading

I remember at 25

Categories: Happy Things, Remembers, Work

I remember at 25 already having made a name for myself at the school. Which translated into me dancing in the Oscar Myer hot dog costume for the fifth grade traveling show that school year. … People just expected me to fully jump in on days like that, and I always did, and I always loved it. Keep reading

I remember at 24

Categories: Happy Things, Remembers, Work

I remember at 24 being thankful for my first job as a teacher, my very first apartment, and that both were on the bus route. … Happy Thanksgiving! Keep reading