Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Stuff
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I don’t have a case on my iPod right now, because the one I had seemed to defeat the purpose of the iPod being a little tiny sleek machine. I really should, though, since scratches can happen so easily. […]
Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Personal
Sage’s birthday is coming up pretty soon. It’s in the middle of March, which is always Spring Break, so we’ll probably have his party early. I need to think of what to do. I’m not feeling inspired. Sometimes I miss the days of just going to Chuck E Cheese and giving the kids a bunch […]
Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
So I have this kid in class who, when talking about ethnic strife over religious differences, announces that he is going to hell. When I asked why he believed that, he told me that he thought the Pope was just some dude, and not really given power by God. I suppose this is heresy in […]
Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
I finally made some. I signed a six-month lease rather than a year-long one, after agonizing over it for more than a month. Having options is good.
I left for work today, and I wanted to cry walking out the door. I thought about how many times I’ve been miserable with our public education system, […]
Michelle on Jan 30 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Things are not going well at work. Here’s a few things I’ve been told lately by my principal, who for some reason, listens to Mr. Sir. Weird.
“The kids have to go back to a regular classroom at the school with teachers who may not want them there. If there is too big of a […]
Michelle on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: The Personal
I went to a parent/teacher conference today for Sage and got seriously embarrassed. Apparently, he chose today to throw a crayon at the chalkboard during a lesson. When the teacher called him out on it, he denied it. Then she said that she had seen him do it. He said, “I didn’t throw it, I […]
Michelle on Jan 28 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
I just found the book, Blue Rage, Black Redemption at my local library. I am bringing it to school. It’s the story of Tookie Williams, the guy who founded the Crips. He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize before being put to death. I’m not sure about the whole thing. The guy unleashed some […]
Michelle on Jan 28 2008 | Filed under: The Personal
Sage hates sleeping by himself. This almost seems to be genetic. His bio-dad never liked sleeping by himself either, even when he was a kid. Sage always thinks of scary stuff at night, and he really gets scared. Sometimes I let him come in and sleep on my floor. The past couple of nights, I’ve […]
Michelle on Jan 28 2008 | Filed under: The Teaching
Things are jacked up at work right now. The Nazi-teachers want everything to be very controlled and punishing and my principal finally listened to them and told me to “tighten things up” because “the kids don’t like the other teachers” due to us “not being on the same page”. I told her that I didn’t […]
Michelle on Jan 27 2008 | Filed under: The Fluff
First, we had the The Shizzolator, which changed the text of your website into hip-hop slang. (It appears to be offline now!) Now we have the LOLinator, which changes your site into an instant LOL cats site, a la icanhascheezburger. I ran Bloggrrl through it, and the results were hilarious. Bloggrrl has lots of pictures, […]
