Oooh, it sounds like I may be teaching Year 5 next year! That's the 9-10 year olds! VERY chuffed about the prospect of literature and humanities, somewhat daunted by the prospect of mountains of marking, quite scared by the thought of teaching Hard Maths.
The whole earth may be sucked into Hell, and you want my help 'cause your girlfriend's a big ho?
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
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Fay - Jan 07, 2009 11:27:56 pm PST #7249 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Sparky1 - Jan 08, 2009 1:24:19 am PST #7250 of 10000
Librarian Warlord
Fay, I think you really need to befriend the wife of that fellow.
I hope everyone had a good sleep. I was up at 4, which seems to be my pattern these days, but fell back to sleep after a few pages of reading.
Barb - Jan 08, 2009 2:32:09 am PST #7251 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
Fay, when I was teaching in that age group, teaching math terrified me too, but ironically, my supervising teachers said it was the best, most creative class I taught.
I guess because I'd had such trouble with math, I was always looking for different ways to get the method across to the kids.
Of course, sheer terror may have also played a part in it as well.
DCJensen - Jan 08, 2009 3:54:34 am PST #7252 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
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Steph L. - Jan 08, 2009 4:03:15 am PST #7253 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
My cell phone decided to commit suicide.
My mom got a new cell phone recently, after hers gave up the ghost. Apparently the previous (now-dead) phone was a bit archaic, so after she got it she e-mailed me all these questions:
"It has Bluetooth! Does yours have Bluetooth? What do I need to do to use Bluetooth?"
"It does text messages? Does yours text message? I see people text-messaging while driving all the time -- you'd BETTER NOT text-message while you drive!"
Which, of course, has led me to text her at odd hours, and every text starts with "Hey Mom, I'm driving right now!"
Come on. She ASKED for it.
Barb - Jan 08, 2009 4:06:38 am PST #7254 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
::loves Tep::
vw bug - Jan 08, 2009 4:26:43 am PST #7255 of 10000
Mostly lurking...
Shir, I hope you're safe and sound.
Steph, that's AWESOME!
I am giving myself a little b.org break because I have already completed half of the work I was hoping to have done before 1pm. Me thinks I might finish early today! GO ME! I gotta tell you, it's SO nice to finally have some energy and motivation to get through this stuff.
Now, on to some math!
DCJensen - Jan 08, 2009 4:29:17 am PST #7256 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Now, on to some math!
A very common battle cry in this thread.
vw bug - Jan 08, 2009 4:30:45 am PST #7257 of 10000
Mostly lurking...
Heh. I know. The funny thing is I'm not usually so excited about it. Though, give me a few minutes, and I might be back in here lower-case "b" bitching.
Pix - Jan 08, 2009 5:06:36 am PST #7258 of 10000
The status is NOT quo.
Yeah, I slept a little too well. My alarms (yes, plural) go off at 5:45. Apparently I turned them both off and went back to sleep. Thank god I only have a meeting this morning and don't actually teach until after 10. I called in and left a message saying something came up (that would be the half Ambien I took apparently a bit too late last night) and that I would miss the meeting, so it should be fine. Seriously, though. I hate playing this sleep/no sleep game. Hate it.