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.

Monday, March 7, 2011

just another manic monday

Tell me why.

I give everyone the task of "developing your own waterfront property" and I get back:

Two waterfront kush farms.
Four waterfront strip clubs.
A waterfront playboy mansion.
and...
A top hat. (?)

Ummmm....no.

I'm at the point in the year where it's extremely hard for me to muster up the enthusiasm it takes to do this job. Hell, it's hard for me to muster the enthusiasm to even get mad when things aren't going the way they should (aka 100% of the time). It's way easier to just plop down at my desk and research job opportunities for next year. I need to feel burdened for these children. I need a sense of urgency.

Right now I just have a sense of get-me-out-of-here-before-I-LOSE-my-sense. Thank goodness my BFFAEAE Susan (fabulous, stylish and ALWAYS trouble) is coming to visit next week! She always seems to help me put things in a proper perspective.

Monday count is down to 11 now. The end is in sight! Whatever will I blog about then? Lord knows no one comes here for recipes or shopping tips.

peace, love and adolescents.
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  1. SueMarch 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM

    So glad Double Trouble will be together but please no meth Santas this time!!!

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