Yay for a job at Westfield State! Although, the 8:00 am class sounds pretty painful. Thanks for the sympathy on the "John" thing; he's a teacher with me in Springfield, although he apparently has taken to moonlighting as an ass. Ah well, it could be worse.
Yes, the Japanese band was amusing, although Cars Can Be Blue really needs to stuff themselves in a deep dark musty closet and throw away the key. I am still tortured by their lyrics in my head.
I got up this morning and opened the shades, and Ahh-ah! (divine music plays) the FREAKIN SUN WAS OUT! I feel like I should be doing some sort of tribal dance outside to worship it. Thank GOD!!! What the hell made you move to dreary New England from the fabulous Southwest anyway??
My principal has been incognito since the observation, but I plan to stalk him for a post-conference before he forgets he came to see me and I have to do it all over again! The state license guy is coming tomorrow for my conference, so I will find out what he thought then. I thought it went well, but who the hell knows what he will say. He is coming again during the first week in November and then I am home free as far as the state is concerned. Well, unless I do something like the juggling Cheetos thing.
I am curious to see your 20 things. So please get working on them!
Okay, I got a 3 out of 3 on ALL AREAS from my licensing observer!!! YAYAYAYAYAY! Of course, I have two more to do, scheduled for a week from today. So I can't exhale yet.
Nine Inch Nails is good angry, screaming music. Which reminds me of something funny that happened this week in my classroom: my 10th graders are reading Julius Caesar, and we were deconstructing the dialogue when Brutus tells the conspirators that the murder should be quick and necessary, not a mutilation or a butcher job. I asked the kids, why does Brutus say this? Is there a difference? But I didn't get much response. So I gave them a hypothetical scenario and I pretended to shoot an imaginary person, then pretended to hack an imaginary person with an ice pick, violently thrusting my clenched hand like I was stabbing someone in a frenzy. I looked at the students, and they were mesmerized. One said, "Miss, are you ok?" and another said, "Miss, I am a little freaked out that you know how to do that. Is there something you're not telling us?" It made me laugh, even hours later.
hey i'm excited to get another sg person in alb. as for good places to live....there is a lot of available residences right around unm ( i go there so i know) it all depends on your snob level though....and income. There are some pretty cheap not so bad apartments around unm on like university, or lead, gold, streets like that, but it is a little ghetto..but only a little. ANd if your single and what not, it's not so bad, But if your looking for something a little nicer, just a few blocks south is the downtown area, a little pricer, but nicer and a lot of complexes are gated, and ofcourse there's always the lofts, which are costly, but really nice.
I hope that helps a little, look forward to meeting you!
Is everything dissolving, or resolving into a better picture of what you want?