More Investing in Myself
Sometimes I feel like things in my life align just right to remind me what my priorities are. My cousin has lived and studied in Guatemala on and off for a whil...
Category: Work/Teaching
Investing in Myself
Recently I decided that I really want to spend 7-10 days in Ecuador taking an intensive Spanish language course. I’ve been a student of Spanish since Fres...
#fuckeverything
Betsy DeVos’ confirmation really bummed me out yesterday. It’s not like I was particularly thrilled with the direction the Obama administration took...
Catching Up
Some seriously gnarly respiratory shit has been going around lately. The fifth grade went to outdoor ed the second week in January. It rained most of the time t...
An Issue, and Action Items
I’m falling back into an unfortunate cycle in which I spend all of the work week waiting desperately for the weekend and then I spend most of the weekend ...
Definition of Success
I just read Dark Matter. It has me thinking a lot, about professional success versus a happy family life. If you could only have one, which would you choose? I ...
The Thing About Teaching
I’m drowning in paperwork right now. The end of the trimester is Friday and I’m really hoping not to spend most of my Thanksgiving break grading pap...
A Positive Outcome
I swear, this will be my last post about my event. So it’s two days out, and I’m feeling really positively about my big even at school. I want to wr...
It’s Over!
It’s over! And it was, all things considered, a success. The teachers running the activities that I couldn’t be at said thing went well and that is ...
Streamlining
I finished up the first week and a half of work feeling like I was totally fucked and there was no way I could make it through the year with my sanity intact. T...