Feb. 24th, 2008 03:07 am
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i_calql8The hit streak on the LJDQ continues into its fourth month. I have a nice couple of puns that may help my streak go onward this week. We shall see.
I could so sleep 16 hours. Easily. Trouble is, nothing's tiring me out. My mind is still firing on most of its cylinders. I have some women's basketball on the TV, which has always been a great cure for insomnia in the past. If that doesn't work, I have an Evil puzzle from Web Sudoku, which will finish the job, provided I don't solve the damned thing first. I've gotten extremely adept at these things, having solved them for 15+ yrs now. I was sudoku when sudoku wasn't cool.
Only 67 school days to summer. The weather is warming up--low 80s tomorrow--and the snowbirds are slowly going home, and no longer clogging up our roads and restaurants.
Next year is my high school's 30 year reunion. Pass. I went to college partially to get the hell away from those boneheads I went to high school with. Outside of my very select and very small circle of friends, the rest of my graduating class wouldn't give me the time of day when I was a fellow student--why the hell would I want to waste any time on them as an adult?
My old home state wants me back, too...I got a little something in the mail asking me to attend a symposium where one of the Dept. of Education minions of my former home will be begg--errr, asking me to return. Ha. If they wanted me to stay, they should have hired me as a teacher while I was there, fresh out of college, instead of me having to go out-of-state. I was rejected by over 40 school systems while I lived there. After one interview, my car threw a rod and I had to get towed home--and I didn't get the job. Another interview, I came home in a blinding blizzard, driving the last hour of my trip at 25 mph--and I didn't get the job. A third interview, I traveled over two hours, only to discover they really just wanted an English teacher, not a math teacher. Thanks for wasting my time, guys.
And now they want me back, so they can get a teacher with over 20 years' teaching experience on the cheap (I'm betting I would have been paid the same as a teacher with 10 yr. or less experience)? Ain't happening, Delbert. They'd probably have expected me to coach something, too. Riiiiiiiiiiight. Too late, jerks--sucks to be you.
On the matter of sports I actually care about, spring training can't begin soon enough for me. College hoops and the NBA do nothing for me. I can't wait to see if/how my Cubs defend their NL Central title. Anything less than playoffs is unacceptable.
And not even so much as a low mumble from my gall bladder in 8 months now. Something to smile about.
Late night snack du noir--Kellogg's Raisin Bran. I prefer Rice Chex, but this'll do.
I could so sleep 16 hours. Easily. Trouble is, nothing's tiring me out. My mind is still firing on most of its cylinders. I have some women's basketball on the TV, which has always been a great cure for insomnia in the past. If that doesn't work, I have an Evil puzzle from Web Sudoku, which will finish the job, provided I don't solve the damned thing first. I've gotten extremely adept at these things, having solved them for 15+ yrs now. I was sudoku when sudoku wasn't cool.
Only 67 school days to summer. The weather is warming up--low 80s tomorrow--and the snowbirds are slowly going home, and no longer clogging up our roads and restaurants.
Next year is my high school's 30 year reunion. Pass. I went to college partially to get the hell away from those boneheads I went to high school with. Outside of my very select and very small circle of friends, the rest of my graduating class wouldn't give me the time of day when I was a fellow student--why the hell would I want to waste any time on them as an adult?
My old home state wants me back, too...I got a little something in the mail asking me to attend a symposium where one of the Dept. of Education minions of my former home will be begg--errr, asking me to return. Ha. If they wanted me to stay, they should have hired me as a teacher while I was there, fresh out of college, instead of me having to go out-of-state. I was rejected by over 40 school systems while I lived there. After one interview, my car threw a rod and I had to get towed home--and I didn't get the job. Another interview, I came home in a blinding blizzard, driving the last hour of my trip at 25 mph--and I didn't get the job. A third interview, I traveled over two hours, only to discover they really just wanted an English teacher, not a math teacher. Thanks for wasting my time, guys.
And now they want me back, so they can get a teacher with over 20 years' teaching experience on the cheap (I'm betting I would have been paid the same as a teacher with 10 yr. or less experience)? Ain't happening, Delbert. They'd probably have expected me to coach something, too. Riiiiiiiiiiight. Too late, jerks--sucks to be you.
On the matter of sports I actually care about, spring training can't begin soon enough for me. College hoops and the NBA do nothing for me. I can't wait to see if/how my Cubs defend their NL Central title. Anything less than playoffs is unacceptable.
And not even so much as a low mumble from my gall bladder in 8 months now. Something to smile about.
Late night snack du noir--Kellogg's Raisin Bran. I prefer Rice Chex, but this'll do.
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So what exactly do you teach?
:)
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Right now, I am teaching three classes of my love, Algebra II, where the math begins to get to the good parts, and two classes of Math They Should Have Learned in Junior High But Didn't and Got Socially Promoted Anyway so Now I'm Stuck With Them.
Needless to say, that's better known as 'remedial math' because my name for it wouldn't fit in the scheduling catalog. :)
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Yeah, you're teaching exactly what I had wanted to when I first got to college...
And then multivariable calculus kicked my ass and I got fed up long about transformational geometry and dropped out of the program.
:)
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If you're thinking of teaching, I have one word for you.
Run.
Run fast. Run away. Run silent, run deep, run for your life. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200 (which is more than I make in a day, btw, lol). Get out of this doomed relationship you have with the educational process, and look into a job that pays and gives respect (I.e. any job but teaching, and perhaps nursing, too)
...or marry someone who has a job that actually pays something, so you can afford to be a teacher. :)