Hello friends, family, and strangers (I flatter myself)! I am a recently-graduated girl finding my way in the "real world" (apparently, I've been floating around the fake world for the past two decades). Many of my friends' "real world"s consist of cubicles, nine-to-fives, marriage, babies, and other such grown-up things. My real world looks a little different. Yes, I still get up and go to work every morning, same as they do. But instead of battling fax machines, computer programs, disgruntled spouses and dirty diapers, I arm myself against a legion of 14-year-old boys. Well, 83 of them to be exact. You see, I teach 8th-grade boys' Science in an inner-city, high-poverty school. What it is not: glamorous, prestigious, boring. What it is: humorous, heartbreaking, and the most challenging thing I will ever do.

The stories I tell and the people I describe are real; you can't make this stuff up. If you are new to my blog, I hope you'll start at the beginning and fall in love with its characters, just as I have.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

your help, si'l vous plait!

Ok, besides shamelessly begging for prayers, I don't really ask for anything here. UNTIL NOW. Don't worry, I won't make a habit of it. People read blogs when they're on their couch feeling sluggish, not when they want to actually do something.

But.

I am completing an application that requires 25 pages worth of writing samples and I was thinking of including some of my blog. If you could let me know what story sticks out in your mind, I would kiss your face. And before you say "Meth Santa," I've already included that one. I'd like to submit something that talks about my kids.

'Preciate ya. Love.
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8 comments:

  1. PJJanuary 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    Two of my favorites are "Shades of Gray" and "WWJD, y'all!"

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2011 at 9:49 AM

    The Christmas story present for your Dad and trip to Knoxville blog. One sweet, and one hilarious!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 10, 2011 at 11:02 AM

    Whatever blog entries you pick to use as part of your 25 pages should definitely be headed by the heading of your blog...well stated and a wonderful introduction to your life and your jottings! Teachers everywhere salute you and feel your pain! We lift you up!!~! Lynne Frederick

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  4. BlogJanuary 10, 2011 at 2:33 PM

    desperate times call for poor decision!!

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  5. SaraJanuary 10, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    I love the GRE one and the one where you pick up the lunch tray in front of that kid. I'm giving them titles like Friends episodes but I'm too lzy to find the real ones.

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  6. Lindsey SmithJanuary 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    anything i have commented on. duh. those are all my faves.

    past that, i will have to look through and check out my faves.

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  7. MelissaJanuary 16, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    Hey Kiley, I hope you included your Merry Christmas Dad post and in recent memory I liked the "Oh na na, whats my name". Bawling on the first one and howling on the second! Soooooo glad you included Meth Santa as THAT is a classic! Love you sista!

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  8. Sara WalkerFebruary 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM

    when the kid babysat your dog
    -when somebody stuffed somebody in a locker
    -when somebody jumped out a window
    -when you got that plant for an award
    - the lunch tray clean up fiasco
    -when you got into an altercation with a girl in the lunchroom (didn't that happen?0
    -when you DIDN'T sit next to that hot frenchman on the phone
    -and when you went streaking on the quad.

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