• On Life and Love

    Diversion of interests

    With the restful break from school, my mind found the energy to think of things unrelated to high school. Namely, finances and fitness, my two F’s on the report card of ’07. Wait, did I just say “things unrelated to high school”? Nevermind. Finances I wracked up a lot of credit card debt in the summer of ’07. Now, it’s nowhere near the $37, 000 that some had when they decided to turn things around, but it’s enough I’m like, “Really? No.” I don’t want to be my father, hiding from phone calls and cycling through credit cards. I still also owe around $25,000 on my student loans, and some…

  • On Life and Love

    Shufflin’ on

    Getting sleep this weekend made a lot of things clearer for me in terms of where I want to be job-wise. So I just gave my notice. As of January, I shall no longer be teaching for Charlotte-Meck Schools. …And I got contact lenses. The two are unrelated. More later. Now I go teach.

  • On Life and Love

    And with a quiet exhalation…

    Today, my department head asked me how many modifications I was going to make to the test she’d made before I gave it to my students. The administration has been hammering us to do common assessments all year, but I’d been struggling to do PEAK-style tests — which include review questions and “skills” questions — all year. Relooping to help the kiddies and all that. This week has been very, very rough. I’ve overslept twice (once cause me to be over an hour late; both causing me to be unprepared) and am at my wits end. These past few months have been a special kind of hell. I’ve been trying…