Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Takin over
So I've supposedly taken over one hour for a while. And with this I'm supposed to be doing lesson plans for my seminar leader (teacher isn't too worried about all the stuff being written out as long as I've got a plan in my head)
But with my second evaluation due at the end of the week I'm supposed to turn in some lesson plans. Hmmm...what to do. Create some lesson plans or just tell her our (my host teacher and I) outlook on them and see how she decides to tell us we need to be doing them.
Got here this morning and decided it was about the last place I wanted to be for various reasons. Felt like crying for the first 15 or 20 minutes because I have so much I need to be doing now besides being the best student teacher ever (which hopefully will land me a job around here...and I need a full time job!)then I got into what we going to be doing today and simmered down. 5th hour is mine so we'll see how that goes.
But with my second evaluation due at the end of the week I'm supposed to turn in some lesson plans. Hmmm...what to do. Create some lesson plans or just tell her our (my host teacher and I) outlook on them and see how she decides to tell us we need to be doing them.
Got here this morning and decided it was about the last place I wanted to be for various reasons. Felt like crying for the first 15 or 20 minutes because I have so much I need to be doing now besides being the best student teacher ever (which hopefully will land me a job around here...and I need a full time job!)then I got into what we going to be doing today and simmered down. 5th hour is mine so we'll see how that goes.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Power
Words are powerful. If I could have one thing it would be more control over the language I speak.
"I want to hear a poem where ideas kiss similes so deeply that metaphors get jelous.
Where the subject matters so much that adjectives start holding pronoun rallies at city hall."
- Steve Coleman. Def Poet.
"I want to hear a poem where ideas kiss similes so deeply that metaphors get jelous.
Where the subject matters so much that adjectives start holding pronoun rallies at city hall."
- Steve Coleman. Def Poet.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Bone Thugs-n-shopping mall kids
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will be at the Blue Note tonight. I'd love to see them, and one of the guys on the cycling team could possibly hook me up, but there's no time for that business (plus they probably come on before I get out of work).
Went to my first after school meeting (other than an FBLA meeting last week) today at the Career Center. Not bad, long, but it was bearable.
Taught two class periods today. Both went well. I was happy.
I also stayed after class yesterday and talked with my instructor for a while (among other things she was the Assistant Director of the Career Center a few years ago) and she's going to work with me on assignments. Letting me plan stuff for the classroom and just talk about it in class while others actually present theirs. And she agreed to write me a recommendation, which I was very pleased about.
As far as the shopping mall stuff in the title. At the Career Center meeting they discussed how the Columbia Mall peoples decided that they had enough of kids swarming the mall on weekend nights and they wanted something to be done about it. Their idea was to hire local teachers at $15/hour to watch the kids and basically teach them how to act civilized.
I'll give you a minute to think about that. Actually...I'll give you until the next time I post something up.
Went to my first after school meeting (other than an FBLA meeting last week) today at the Career Center. Not bad, long, but it was bearable.
Taught two class periods today. Both went well. I was happy.
I also stayed after class yesterday and talked with my instructor for a while (among other things she was the Assistant Director of the Career Center a few years ago) and she's going to work with me on assignments. Letting me plan stuff for the classroom and just talk about it in class while others actually present theirs. And she agreed to write me a recommendation, which I was very pleased about.
As far as the shopping mall stuff in the title. At the Career Center meeting they discussed how the Columbia Mall peoples decided that they had enough of kids swarming the mall on weekend nights and they wanted something to be done about it. Their idea was to hire local teachers at $15/hour to watch the kids and basically teach them how to act civilized.
I'll give you a minute to think about that. Actually...I'll give you until the next time I post something up.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Kick to the nuts
Rode a big tree loop today...or part of it. Got a big metaphorical kick to the nuts less than half way through the ride when I realized how week I was, partly due to not riding and part due to weighing more than I should.
Forgot that the MS150 was going one this weekend (remembered yesterday, but forgot overnight) and part of the Central Missouri one (there's also a KC and a Springfield one I believe) goes around the big tree loop, just in the opposite direction that I was going. So I waved at about a billion riders and half of them though I was crazy for wanting to go back and ride over the hills again.
One of the rest stops was by the Katy trail down on the flats and I considered stopping in and grabbing some watermelon or pb&j sandwhich, but I was hurting too make to do it. I went ahead and took the Katy to MKT trail and limped home.
Guess that's about it for now. Need to grade some assignments and iron about 8 shirts.
Forgot that the MS150 was going one this weekend (remembered yesterday, but forgot overnight) and part of the Central Missouri one (there's also a KC and a Springfield one I believe) goes around the big tree loop, just in the opposite direction that I was going. So I waved at about a billion riders and half of them though I was crazy for wanting to go back and ride over the hills again.
One of the rest stops was by the Katy trail down on the flats and I considered stopping in and grabbing some watermelon or pb&j sandwhich, but I was hurting too make to do it. I went ahead and took the Katy to MKT trail and limped home.
Guess that's about it for now. Need to grade some assignments and iron about 8 shirts.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Screwed, tired, and can't think of anything that might rhyme with either
So I'm pretty sure the last landlord screwed Em and I over. Out of the $650 deposit we expected to get back we actually received something like $350.
He took off like $150 for carpet cleaning, some more for paint touchup on some of the walls, and even $10 for cleaning out the fridge more than we did.
If I had time and money I'd visit a lawyer and try to get our money back (law says we could sue for up to twice the amount we're owed). But I don't have the time, money, of any kind of pictures as proof of the condition it was in when we left.
So I won't think about it any more for now, I'll just leave the situation with a big f*$k you to him.
In other news I about dozed off a couple times 6th and 7th hour yesterday.
He took off like $150 for carpet cleaning, some more for paint touchup on some of the walls, and even $10 for cleaning out the fridge more than we did.
If I had time and money I'd visit a lawyer and try to get our money back (law says we could sue for up to twice the amount we're owed). But I don't have the time, money, of any kind of pictures as proof of the condition it was in when we left.
So I won't think about it any more for now, I'll just leave the situation with a big f*$k you to him.
In other news I about dozed off a couple times 6th and 7th hour yesterday.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Friday, September 01, 2006
That's funny right there
"Fun Fact: Lance Armstrong and Matthew McConaughey are throwing a party at Lance's place tonight at 10 p.m. for the Texas cheerleading squad. But no male cheerleaders and no fatties allowed! No exceptions." [from ESPN's Page 2]
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
No fatties...hee hee haa haa
And yes I did read the article and post this during class. Taught again last hour...good stuff.
I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
No fatties...hee hee haa haa
And yes I did read the article and post this during class. Taught again last hour...good stuff.
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