On writing, Churchill, beavers & “oh la la”

January 3rd, 2011 in a possible regret, because "guilt" is a dirty word, fingers crossed this works, help, I like annoying people by talking about how much i like comic sans, i love fragment sentences, i might be addicted to tags, i need to spend more time on spelling, I sound drunk but I assure you I am not, I'm scared to see the search engine results to this, it seemed like a good idea at the time..., it's a long one (twss), italics make it appear more thoughtful/interesting, love harder, quote of the day, self improvement, swimming in a sea of self pity, the title says it all, today has been crummy, when i ask you to do things for me, you're skimming this one

You know what the weird thing is? (Other than starting posts with a random question) It’s the fact that right now, my world is full of extremes. I’m either locking myself in the bathroom at work with the taps running so people can’t hear me cry or I’m stifling a laugh when one of my students comes to school with a stuffed rodent and proclaims to everyone “Get over here and touch my beaver! I’ve got the softest beaver in the wooooooooorld“. The downside of course, is that a second after you catch yourself smiling, you feel guilty. Like being …READ MORE

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How could you not love this?

June 3rd, 2010 in adventure, and then i laughed out loud, because I can't do report cards 24/7, i need to spend more time on spelling, other people say it better, people i like, the one that nobody reads because of the title, youth

Today I gave my grade 4 class a writing assignment. They were to write a persuasive letter to anyone- on any topic. Some of my students wrote to their parents wanting an increase in allowance, some wrote to the school principal- begging for school to be extended (yes, I have THOSE students). But one student wrote to me. He didn’t write the most articulate letter, nor did he ace the spelling, but it made me smile like a lottery winner, so I thought I would share it with you.

Dear best teacher.

I am writing to you to tell you …READ MORE

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Great Big Things

September 22nd, 2009 in and no you can't say world peace, hello universe? I love you, here is my heart, i love fragment sentences, i need to spend more time on spelling, i second that emotion, I'm yoda. Everyone else is a grasshopper, it happened this week, it makes sense to me, italics make it appear more thoughtful/interesting, life lesson, other people say it better, question of the day, school, so sappy it hurts, the J.O.B., what i found when i went looking, you're skimming this one

I don’t do maxi dresses (I’m too short) and I’m not really in love with granola (blame the granola binge of ’06), but the way I talk to my class sometimes, I’m sure I’m labeled the ‘hippie teacher’. We talk about feelings and goals and quotes that inspire us. We talk about why we are learning and how we are learning it and what we can do with the knowledge we are gaining. We sometimes talk about how what we learn in school just isn’t for school, it’s for life- that every piece of information we gather is to help …READ MORE

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The Obligatory Thanksgiving Post (OR What I’ve been thinking about for the last 7 hours)

October 13th, 2008 in AHHHHHHHHHHH!, cnn makes my heart beat fast, dogs, famous people make for good gossip, happiness, holidays, i am slowly going crazy, i need to spend more time on spelling, it happened this week, it's almost like a meme, Josh Lyman needs his own tag, lists, politics, swimming in a sea of self pity, the george, the title says it all, top 10, when it doesn't go my way, your vote matters here

I’m searching to find the laugh inside me right now. After writing yesterdays post where I started off discussing my WORST MORNING EVER, I awoke this morning with the smell of dog vomit in my nostrils.

I’m dog sitting right now and it would appear that my 4 legged sidekick is fighting some sort of gastrointestinal bug. Because the entire house that I’m living in while I watch this dog, was covered with both vomit and diarrhea at 4 am this morning. COVERED. As in, there was so much expelled waste everywhere, I have to assume she didn’t do this on …READ MORE

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This is how I start my day, indeed.

May 15th, 2008 in Annie Lebowitz is so jealous, i need to spend more time on spelling, the J.O.B., Uncategorized, what the hell, youth

Two minutes after I found this (propped against my apple cider cup) I was told that the author of this note called one classmate a fatty, had been throwing large rocks at the head of another student and had taken someones shoes and threw them down the twisty slide.

The sucking up? It starts young.

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