I have received an email from Best Buy thanking me for my recent purchase.

I have not purchased anything at Best Buy in over a year.

They just won't let go of the relationship.

Some days I want to teach more than anything else in the whole world and some days I want to be done with school completely. I'm tired of fighting to take classes around my work schedule.

I would love love love to work with GSUSA.

Stress kills. If we could only weaponize it somehow...

Or reflect it back at the people who cause stress.

I happen to feel strongly that one thing that's wrong with the current educational system is the theory that you teach someone how to teach and then throw subjects at them willy-nilly. I've talked to too many teachers who only know what's in the syllabus. I want a teacher to love the subject first and have a broad background in it. (It's quite clear that the Buffista teachers love their subjects, but that doesn't seem to be the norm.)

I totally get your point Ginger, although I find that the problem with academia is the opposite. Too many of the professors know their subjects inside and out, but don't know how to teach. There should be a happy medium.

My first few years in grad school, the department had a few more female grad students than male. A few years ago, though, nearly all the women graduated, and almost all of the new students accepted since then have been men, so now we've got way more men than women.

In the time I've been here, the department, which has about 30 professors, has never had more than two female professors.

Fwiw, Aims, if you want to teach high school I recommend getting the BA in the subject area and then getting a teaching certificate/masters.

I would ask around where you live because based on my experience around here, getting a masters can price you out of being hired. The school can get a BA cheaper than an MA/MS. Other districts, however, really want a masters and won't even look at just BA's.

And, English teachers (in my market) are a dime a dozen, so you need to have something else to bring to the table: other endorsements, reading specialization, coaching, etc.

If you're sick of school but still want to teach, get your BA in English ed and you can always go back and get a masters later. And move up on the pay scales.

Academia suffers from "what gets measured gets done." If promotion depends on publication, then there's little incentive to be a good teacher. One of my best teachers was so wildly enthusiastic about his subject, 18th century English literature, that he more that once convinced me to like a book that I hated while I was reading it. He didn't get tenure. (That was also part of a political battle in which the older faculty systematically rejected tenure for the hires of a department chair who was brought in to keep the department from losing accreditation. These were men who were not convinced the novel was here to stay.) Yes, I'm still bitter.

My advisor finally emailed me back, keeping up his pattern of one response for every five emails I send him. Then I tried to reply, but couldn't because his inbox is full.

I would love love love to work with GSUSA.

Hahahhaah! Um. I have a friend who does. Um. What exactly would you like to do, exactly? Cause...um. (Though I should point out, there are lots of lesbians!)

I know there are - when I went to the kick off metting last fall, it was obvious that the GSUSA does not feel the same way about teh gays as BSUSA does.

I'd love to work in our council office as a membership specialist. I would be kick ass at it. I told Joe last night that I wouldn't be happy until I got EVERY GIRL EVERY WHERE in a GS troop.