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.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

skool's out 4eva

Just figured out that for the first time ever, I will no longer get a fall break, spring break or summer break.

Wh-WHAT?

You mean June will roll around and I'll still go to work 8-5 like nothing has changed??

Christmas "break" will be a two-day blip on the radar??


I know, Kim. I feel ya, guh.

In other news, I'm hopefully about 1/2 a week away from securing housing for next year and then on my way to North Carolina. I can't promise you that my new job will provide as much entertainment for you as the last (in fact, I can pretty much guarantee it won't), but I will try to continue to be hilarious. Isn't that what makes a great writer, anyway? Someone who makes the ordinary compelling? Consider it a test of sorts.

Or don't. For once in my life, I'm finally done with school.
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