With some things, I have an extraordinary amount of patience (like with 12- and 13-year-olds, apparently). However, when it comes to other things, such as learning new skills, finishing books, and now, waiting for my own vegetables to come to harvest, I’m not. So when I found out that there was a vegetable that …
Ironic
I find it funny that now, during one of the most exhausting and stressful weeks of my life to date, I am reading Walden each night before going to bed. Why is this funny? Well, if you’re unfamiliar with Walden (which 90% of the phlebomists at the plasma center are), it is the part-philosophical, part-memoir account …
Tuesday Tell-All
*Warning! Warning! I am one massive, writhing, fatigued stress-case today, and so if the various parts of my post don’t add up to make some kind of holistic sense, you can blame the fact that I’m 6.5 school days away from being finished, and I’m out for blood due to some misbehaving students. *Just thought …
In Which I Dance Alone and Not Alone
So some journalism students at my school put out a newspaper each month to the whole student body, and somehow or other, I seem to end up in every issue. Maybe it’s because the social dance class I teach twice a week is a hot debate (is it awesome? is it lame? is it mortifying?), …
The Day I (Almost) Cried at School
Cartoon via Here we are, almost into the single digits of how many days of school are left, and the kids are driving me bat-crap crazy. Yeah, you heard me. Then WHY on earth would I start tearing up today when I thought about how much I would miss some of them? AGGGGHHH—teacher hormones!! So …
Just Call Him the Baby Whisperer
Last weekend, we ended up going home as a semi-last-minute surprise for Mom’s Day. While home, we finally got to meet my darling nephew Evan for the first time, and I’ve gotta say: that hubby of mine sure is handsome with a wee babe in his arms. (But don’t get any ideas, folks—we’re not planning …
Tuesday Tell-All
*When your mom’s got four girls and two of those four girls have recently had babies who do funky toe tricks, of COURSE the only logical thing to do when you all get together is to start spreading out your toes in front of each other to see if the weird baby foot tricks are …
This Kind of Feels Like Defeat, But Not
Okay, let’s get real, folks: the last month of your first year of teaching is really, REALLY busy/stressful/emotional/tiring/draining/sleep-deprived/crazy. You know it’s bad when one of your favorite hobbies (blogging) is starting to feel like just one more thing on that monstrous to-do list. You know it’s REALLY bad when you’re stressing yourself sick over …