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First Day Back: Fun and Productive
Lord I need to find a way to get more sleep.
Yesterday was a good day. All morning we had a staff meeting and it was cool. We have two new staff members -- a new special ed teacher and a new mental health clinician. Thank god for that. We had a horrible shooting over the summer and I was concerned about how the kids in general would be handling that. This neighborhood is pretty quiet, although there is a drug presence.
I had lunch with one of my coworkers and that was cool. All my other coworkers were either busy in their rooms or had gone out for lunch. There were a few who were being gloomy about the start of the year, but I was like to hell with feeling bad. Sure, I'd rather not be working, and yeah, I get paid SHIT, but you know what? It's a job with benefits, I like children, and it could worse in today's Bush economy. I'm glad to have any job AND be able to sell a few books on the side.
After lunch I helped each of the teachers I am assigned to. They are great. It will be a mostly low stress year.
Got home and was hungry as hell, even though the ESL teacher said "You gained weight over the summer, didn't you?" ILL! Do you say that? That was so rude. YES I gained weight, bitch. Ugh.
I called myself going to bed "early" so that I could get up at 6am if I wanted to. Not! After sleeping for about 45 minutes, I got a phone call. I only left it on in case my friend called but it was my frat who writes. He has sent me some information in email, which I had responded to, so I am like half sleep asking what the hell he wants, lol. But we had a good 45-minute conversation. I know he's really busy, so I don't mind the interruption. But I swear he didn't give a rat's ass that I was asleep.
Oh yeah, the oh-so-hot co-worker never did come out of the closet, LOL. Not that I expected him to. But I'm quite fond of him in general, so it was good to see him again.
I am going to the post office today. I have to send boxes of books down to Atlanta, and I am really not trying to have to pay for priority or express shipping. Media mail is only supposed to take four days from DC to Atlanta, but I am going to talk to the postal workers myself about that. I'm not trying to be in Atlanta with no books! That would be a nightmare!
I fell asleep (both times) last night trying to visualize scenes from a book I was inspired to write. I had been vaguely inspired to write this story a few months ago, but somehow things crystalized for me yesterday at work. I can really "see" this polt unfold, so I'm happy for that.
Jeez, if I had the leisure, I'd be hella prolific!
Posted by Rashid on August 24, 2005 7:02 AM
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u teach man?
btw ... nice site!
Commented by DizYaBoy on August 24, 2005 5:33 PM