I can see that. Would private school be an option at all?
When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?
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-t - Sep 16, 2009 9:50:04 am PDT #23375 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 10:00:05 am PDT #23376 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Sure, i'm not discounting teaching in high school for the next couple of years totally. I'm just thinking about what is frustrating me, and what I like and dislike about teaching. I'm really tired of not teaching, and focusing on the more social work and behavior issues part.
I'm becoming a Danny Glover/Mary Blige mash-up: I'm too old for this shit; too much drama.
-t - Sep 16, 2009 10:03:55 am PDT #23377 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Good thinking. Sorting out the pros and the cons and what exactly about your current job is problematic is sensible in the extreme. it kinda bums me out because you were so enthusiastic about teaching not very long ago, but I have a lot of sympathy for you. All the non-teaching CYA stuff is what got me out of teaching ages ago.
Strix - Sep 16, 2009 10:13:42 am PDT #23378 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I'm still enthusiastic about teaching, -t; I'm just not TEACHING. My current job is education advocate at a homeless shelter for teens, and it's so not teaching. It's a useful job, but it's not teaching; it's social work, and it's not right for me. I'm burnt out on it already.
I've been called a bitch and a cunt about (seriously) 500 times in the last 10 months. Nope; not my personality. I need a slower pace, more introspection, less crises.
-t - Sep 16, 2009 10:27:29 am PDT #23379 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, I didn't know that's what you were doing! Yeah, that sounds seriously hard and not right for you. hope you can figure something out that will fit you better and give you health insurance and pay you well enough, etc.
DebetEsse - Sep 16, 2009 11:05:36 am PDT #23380 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Kennedy half-dollars are possibly cooler, if not as valuable, if you can find a source, which I have no guidance on.
Erin, that sounds awful for you. It's good to know what you need, though, and sometimes the only way to do that is "not this". t /silver lining
Shir - Sep 16, 2009 11:14:47 am PDT #23381 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Plus, I dunno what my dissertation would be. Atwood? The explosion of female heroines in modern fantasy? Buffy? Urban fantasy as a response to a mechanized global culture? Umm.
So interesting (to me) that you're bringing it up now.
Next year, if my mostly awesome sociology schedule won't fail, I'm about to be very lucky with my "elective" classes. One of them, touchwood touchwood touchwood, will be with Nachman Ben Yehuda.
I got this whole theory how there really is no "Other", and how it's just a part in us we prefer to project on other social groups. And I started thinking what's the place of Sci-Fi in it, when I realized how similar are some ethnographies to SF/F novels - and the absurdity that we can't imagine another social order without it involves aliens.
Now, and it's all in very early stages - I want to see how "The Other" is being portrayed in SF/F, and what does it mean in terms of the sociology of deviance.
sj - Sep 16, 2009 11:17:59 am PDT #23382 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Plus, I dunno what my dissertation would be. Atwood? The explosion of female heroines in modern fantasy? Buffy? Urban fantasy as a response to a mechanized global culture? Umm.
FWIW, I would read any of these.
Laga - Sep 16, 2009 11:19:26 am PDT #23383 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Shir, it's only tangentially related but have you heard of the Monkeysphere?
Shir - Sep 16, 2009 11:22:56 am PDT #23384 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Shir, it's only tangentially related but have you heard of the Monkeysphere?
Have you met me? I EXIST in the tangentially related!
And no, haven't heard of it yet. Bookmarked it and will read it tomorrow. Right now, I gotta start thinking about going to bed.