I have been living off of spare change for the last 3 weeks. Seriously. I look at change scattered in other people's cars and think "I could buy gas with that..."

I totally thought I would come into this program needing only pedagogy, and be plenty prepared in math.

Then, in my VERY FIRST CLASS, they gave me problems I can't figure out how to do.

This is going to be hard. And fun.

Do you take it? I have. (And you thought the crime obsession came from nowhere.)

When I worked at a movie theater (2nd try at grad school), I bought many a meal using the change found while sweeping theaters. Summers were always better for that, because change falls out of shorts pockets really easily. Or so we theorized.

I should start picking up change. It's part of my learn-financial-discipline plan, which also includes giving up diet cokes, because $0.30 per can times 6 cans per day (and much more per serving if I buy at convenience stores/restaurants/vending machines) comes out to a lot of money over time. A WHOLE lot of money, that could be much better spent on plays, alcohol, cool electronic gadgets, et cetera. Fried egg sandwiches are also part of this plan. ($2 loaf of bread, $2 dozen of eggs, $2 thing of butter for sixish meals. Cheap and delicious! I usually add a piece of fruit on the side that makes it a bit more expensive, though, because otherwise I'd probably die.)

I've been thinking about starting an English teacher LJ just for my English teaching friends...would you be interested in joining?

I'm feeling all left out and sulky.

Seriously though, I'm so impressed by the whole thing. I remember at one point thinking about teaching English, and now that I'm actually getting closer and closer to teaching in general, I find myself thinking, "How on earth do they do it?"

I'm feeling all left out and sulky.

Emily, I didn't mean that non-English teachers couldn't join at all! I just figured most other people wouldn't be interested. You'd be more than welcome as would anyone else who wants to come talk English (or even just general) education shop.

I said "only" meaning only people I knew or friends of people I knew--IOW, not opening it to the general public so much as to a more private community.

Yay! I promise not to hate you.

Okay, that was a joke that was funny only to me, based on my streak of bad relationships with English teachers in my youth.

By the way, since we're both here...Emily thinks I made up the word caddywompus. Please tell her I'm not the only person who uses this word. Please. I'm not totally weird, am I?

hi, and urg. stupid job.