Sleep Deprived
It is 6:45 p.m. I am so tired I can barely move. I need sleep. I can’t go to bed right now. If for some reason I should manage to sleep the full 7 hours my body requires, I’ll be wide awake before 2 a.m. Bad, bad, idea. Even if [...]
Positive Parent-Teacher Conferences
We are having Parent-Teacher Conferences this week. This semester the reading teachers are meeting with the parents of the students in their reading class. Last semester I was teaching 5th graders who were reading on 4th grade level. I am truly enjoying these conferences because most of my students made [...]
Flakey, Indeed
The school provides a free breakfast to every student, every morning in their classrooms. Tuesday they served Frosted Flakes, milk, cheese sticks and fruit cocktail. I said, “Frosted Flakes! I don’t think I’ve had those since I was a fifth grader. How do they taste?” The whole class looked at [...]
The Director
I was sick and missed three days of school last week. Normally I work when I’m sick, but the vertigo pretty much assured I had to stay still. I went into work briefly on Wednesday, but left for a doctor’s appointment. I went into work briefly on Thursday, but was [...]
Human For Sale
According to Humanforsale.com I am worth $1,422,634.00 Of course they also think I’m more intelligent than 62.59% of the population. I would have posted their official results here, but I didn’t feel like figuring out why their code wasn’t working. [...]