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.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

And now what?

I'm moving Monday. Starting to pack up now will not only depress me by forcing me to stare at blank walls and boxes for days, it will also be inconvenient. How can I pack up all my kitchen stuff if I'm still going to be cooking for four more days? I could pack up all my clothes and walk around naked 'til Monday, but that doesn't sound very prudent either. Since I don't really know what to do with myself right now and I'm a little overwhelmed, I'm MAKING LISTS.

Making lists is a great way of doing something without actually doing something. You feel productive while making these lists--even if you don't get anything on them done! It's great! Besides my "To Pack" list, right now I'm making a list of songs to download and burn a CD from. I'm also compiling a list of "Things I'll Miss About My City" to blog about.

And now, a list of "Potential Career Paths for the Unemployed Ex-Teacher with an English Degree, a Penchant for Sarcasm and Good Food, Aversion to the Cardigan, Fluent in Country Colloquialisms and Ebonics":

1. Teach again
2. Go to school again
3. Work at a Honky-Tonk
4. Work at Bojangles
5. Be Homeless
6. Be a Food Conna...Connisss..... if you can't spell it you can't be it.
7. Write an Fashion Advice Column for Educators
8. Marry Rich

Well, that's all I could come up with for now. Number one requires number two, which complicates things. As does the fact that I'm potentially overqualified for number four and underqualified for six and seven. Number five is the path of least resistance, and if I'm going to do number eight, I'd better quit hanging out with only teachers. So there you have it.

Did I leave anything off my list?
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5 comments:

  1. SaraJune 16, 2011 at 7:11 PM

    9. Change your name to Kyle

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  2. ErJune 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM

    10. Doggie-Daycare... you know you'd love it.

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  3. AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    11. Professional Blogger...there's gotta be a way you can get paid for this stuff

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  4. AnonymousJune 21, 2011 at 4:11 AM

    12. Bring back the Beleviares

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  5. AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    I think the point was that by process of elimination she will 3. Work at a Honky-Tonk.

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