I'm sitting here trying to feel virtuous over my lunch, since I've started trying to work my way back to eating healthy after a summer of travel/conference eating. Thin slices of hard salami, a couple of pieces of good cheddar, raw sugar snap peas, carrots, and broccoli with a little bleu cheese dip, and a crisp, ice cold Red Delicious apple.

I'm full now, but I hope I'm not starving in two hours.

Wow, Erin. That's a huge step. Good on you for figuring out it was necessary.

ION, two classes down, two to go. Going okay so far, but I think I'm going to have my hands full with a few of the girls in my 12th class. One of them admitted without the least bit of concern or remorse that she "couldn't get through" the first summer reading book and didn't bother to read the second. Oh dear. Go Team Apathy! Another student rather snottily commented that "in my AP class last year" she did a lot of this already. What. Ev. Sunshine.

Another student rather snottily commented that "in my AP class last year" she did a lot of this already. What. Ev. Sunshine.

"Perhaps you'd like to return? I'm sure it could be arranged."

Oy. Patience ~ma, love.

Good for you for having the guts and awareness to do that, Erin. Here's wishing you good, new job-ma.

I'm on my second day of PTO for the week, yay! I work Wed-Thurs, and then I get Friday off. Life is good.

Windsparrow, you could maybe try a non-credit, continuing ed class and see how it goes? They're cheaper, and you could pick something fun. It probably wouldn't be the same workload as a credit class, but it might just give you a pressure-free way to get an idea how you'd feel about it.

"My school of flirting rule is to look at them until they notice me and then hope for the best," he says.

I'll notice! I'll notice!!

One of them admitted without the least bit of concern or remorse that she "couldn't get through" the first summer reading book and didn't bother to read the second.

Do you test them on the reading? We always got tested on our summer reading, which busted about half the class one year, when they watched the movie, since the movie had a different ending than the book. (No, after 20+ years, I don't remember what book it was. t edit Fuck, I actually DO -- why on earth does my brain retain that shit? The Bostonians.)

Because a student like yours, who unconcernedly admits not doing the reading, is begging to start the school year with an F.

This is perhaps why I'm not a teacher. The desire for revenge isn't the best pedagogical method, I'm told.

The desire for revenge isn't the best pedagogical method, I'm told.

Not these days, when even a C is seen as a mark of failure, rather than of "average" which is what it should be. I'm still shaking my head over the organizational meeting for Abby's class a couple of weeks ago, where a parent asked, in all seriousness, "This is a pure PACE (gifted) class, right, not a mixed one?" Because in our school, when you sometimes have borderline kids who don't full qualify for the PACE program, plus an overflow of PACE kids, they create a combined class, that isn't considered a true PACE class but an "enrichment" class. Because heaven forfend the little darlings rub elbows with those other students.

I really hate dealing with gifted parents. The sense of entitlement makes me want to smack a bitch.

gifted parents

Gifted with huge egos and no common-sense. Sheeeyah.

thank-you teachers for everything.

{{{Erin}}} good on you for knowing when to quit.

& Omnis you were right about that golf game. I clicked over to peek and see what it was like and ended up playing 18 holes.

Today's Lunch With Da Man consisted of: pork loin, asparagus, and cauliflower

Loving the corporate foodstuffs. They make me nice veggies. Nom nom nom