I still have a lot to do, and less than seven days to do it all. So, it’s back to the trusty to do list for Seattle. Ok, here’s the list once more, with things crossed out no less! UPDATE: I think it’s time to start from scratch. New list!

Decide exactly what goes and what […]

Ok, so maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to participate in such an awesome meme the month before I move to Seattle. I have been crazy busy lately (and I mean that somewhat literally.) I didn’t expect the crunch to be this bad. I’m moving out of my apartment on Saturday. That’s less than […]

Here’s what I learned today: Caffeine gives me mood swings. Somehow, this is something that I failed to notice the entire time I was in college.
So, I started this morning with a lot of coffee. I’ve been so tired in class (and out of it, actually) that I thought it would be a good […]

Ok, a shorter one now. The fall before I graduated, I was invited to go camping with a handful of other friends from church. I decided to go, because there is simply no camping in the Valley. It’s just too damn hot. And even if it wasn’t, it’s not like there are any forests around […]

The name of a certain tutoring institution has been changed to prevent easy googling.
Somewhere in all of these boxes of sentimental things that I’ve packed away is a pencil and paper drawing of a flaming peep in a microwave. You know, peeps- the finest of easter-themed candy. Its one of the only things I saved […]

August 16, 2004, 4:25 pm: I am standing in the hallway across from the gym. Everything’s quiet now, as most students leave school like a bat out of hell once the final bell rings. By 4:15 there’s no one in the halls but teachers like me keeping a lonely watch for mischief-making. No one else […]

Picked this one up from the Narcissist. I’m calling it “17 Memories” instead of “21 Memories” because I’m moving out in 17 days, and therefore I’m losing my interweb connection a little earlier. Plus, even with only 17 memories, I had trouble finding enough to talk about. I’m pretty sure I’d have to start making […]

I had my students write a poem about Pi. It didn’t have to rhyme. But each line had to have as many words as that digit in Pi. So the first sentence has 3 words, the second, 1 word, the third, 4 words, and so on. By far the best one I received was: “Math […]

I got a terrifying letter in the mail from the people in charge of certifying educators in Washington. According to them, 4th-8th grade generalist means elementary education. Even though Texas has a separate certification for that. And the only elementary grades you can teach with my certification are 4th and 5th grade, but you can […]

It appears that sometime between college graduation and the present day I succumbed to the teachers’ curse. For those of you who are uninitiated, I’m talking about the need that teachers have (ALL teachers) to hold on to mostly useless things for potential future use in the classroom. If you don’t believe that teachers are […]