I do registration and attendance and records for over 800 students. Seeing that enrollment and attendance are huge factors in deciding how a school is funded–and funding dictates how much paper, pencils, books, sports, etc, we can afford–you’d think that my role would be seen as an important one. Especially when you consider that things […]
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Quoting from this site: The reason fan fiction, love poems and Christian rock suck big time is that it’s not enough to be about the beloved. You have to have something other than “it’s about Rocky Horror Picture Show, and there’s never been anything about it before !!! to maintain a novel. I do love
So the babysitter called me about four, my usual time to leave, and said they were baking cookies. If I wanted to stay at work, or if I wanted to hang out over there for a while, I could take some home. Cookies? Yeah, I’ll make allowances. I stayed at work. And got an amazing
2 : behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess Umm….yeah. Would you like an example? This afternoon one of the assistant principals came looking for a physical card on a student. I told her if I handled a registration packet with the physical attached, I took it off and gave it to the
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“Does genius burn?” That’s what Jo March’s family used to ask when she was writing frantically in Little Women. That was my first exposure to how other writers lived, and I’ve never forgotten it. Because I do it too. Oh, I don’t have the cap that warned family members of Jo’s mood, and I don’t
Lately I’ve been talking a lot about my friends and fellow writers. But today I’ve realized something. They don’t place nearly the priority I do on writing. I ask what they’re doing this weekend, and writing is last on the list, not first. It’s the “get to it if I can” thing. And we all
Had another of those annoying in-service thingys yesterday. Half of it was a major waste of time, but half of it wasn’t too bad. Of course I found it irritating anyway, for the simple reason that yes, I fully believe the education and well-being of my students is the most important thing, and I’m perfectly