It's been a while
I know I really am just writing out to cyber space here, but I thought it might be time to try and come back to this foolish thing I started. So even though no one really reads this...I'm going to write on it.
To update: Teaching
I now have a real person job, in that I am actually teaching in a school district now! I was hired back in February, and would have started the first week or so if not for the massive snow storm that hit! Once that cleared up, I jumped in head first to teaching on call. It was an eye opening first week, and at the end of a few of those first days I questioned myself on whether I could really do this. But then I started getting into a rhythm, and realized that...YES I CAN! So I did. I worked every day I was available (not tutoring in the mornings etc), and I held on to my menial job for a bit of extra cash, and potential for summer employment. Working three jobs is a tiring thing, thus the lack of energy to write. A few months into TTOC-ing I was called to the distributed learning center, basically the online school for the district. I found I loved it there. It was a great environment and it was a nice break from the craziness of a classroom. One day while I was there, I mentioned at lunch time that I would love to work there if I had the chance. No more than a week or so later I get a call from the principal offering me a job for the rest of the school year. Naturally I said yes, and that is where I am now. Working a 0.7 contract until the end of June. I can't even describe what it is like to be so happy to go to work everyday. I love the work I am doing. If I am working with students it is one on one or in small groups. I am marking submitted work, gaining experience with that, and once marks and report cards are complete I get to work on some curriculum development as well. With all this energy I get from not being exhausted at the end of the day I am finding myself more and more inclined to try and start writing again. So, as my first few months of teaching wind down I am finding myself with a bit more time on my hands, and a bit more desire to start writing again. So, here is my first attempt at that.
To Update: Life
Life over the past year or so has been stressful, and hard. This past March, I lost my grandfather. He had been going down hill for a few months, and a fall put him in the hospital. From there, he made the conscious, or unconscious decision to stop eating and passed quietly with my mother at his side a year and a half almost to the day after my grandmother. From that came all the stress of cleaning out the house, dividing up furniture and other knickknack inheritance etc. From that came the realization that my partner and I live in a very small apartment. We had a lot of trouble finding space for everything and even ended up putting some things in his family storage unit. But that is enough about life. My life is relatively boring.
To Update: The Future
So, here is my thinking: This blog is something I would like to continue. It is something that I want to try and commit to posting to more regularly. Something like once a week, or once every two weeks, something like that. The thing is, I still need to figure out what exactly I want to post to it. Creative writing...things about Paganism...things about teaching...all of the above...I don't know. So, for the next few weeks/months I will be experimenting. Figuring out what I can produce in relatively decent amounts of time that, to me, are worth while. From there we'll just have to see how it goes.
I think it is time for bed, as I do work tomorrow and I have an hour drive in the morning.
Later cyber space!
Cheers
To update: Teaching
I now have a real person job, in that I am actually teaching in a school district now! I was hired back in February, and would have started the first week or so if not for the massive snow storm that hit! Once that cleared up, I jumped in head first to teaching on call. It was an eye opening first week, and at the end of a few of those first days I questioned myself on whether I could really do this. But then I started getting into a rhythm, and realized that...YES I CAN! So I did. I worked every day I was available (not tutoring in the mornings etc), and I held on to my menial job for a bit of extra cash, and potential for summer employment. Working three jobs is a tiring thing, thus the lack of energy to write. A few months into TTOC-ing I was called to the distributed learning center, basically the online school for the district. I found I loved it there. It was a great environment and it was a nice break from the craziness of a classroom. One day while I was there, I mentioned at lunch time that I would love to work there if I had the chance. No more than a week or so later I get a call from the principal offering me a job for the rest of the school year. Naturally I said yes, and that is where I am now. Working a 0.7 contract until the end of June. I can't even describe what it is like to be so happy to go to work everyday. I love the work I am doing. If I am working with students it is one on one or in small groups. I am marking submitted work, gaining experience with that, and once marks and report cards are complete I get to work on some curriculum development as well. With all this energy I get from not being exhausted at the end of the day I am finding myself more and more inclined to try and start writing again. So, as my first few months of teaching wind down I am finding myself with a bit more time on my hands, and a bit more desire to start writing again. So, here is my first attempt at that.
To Update: Life
Life over the past year or so has been stressful, and hard. This past March, I lost my grandfather. He had been going down hill for a few months, and a fall put him in the hospital. From there, he made the conscious, or unconscious decision to stop eating and passed quietly with my mother at his side a year and a half almost to the day after my grandmother. From that came all the stress of cleaning out the house, dividing up furniture and other knickknack inheritance etc. From that came the realization that my partner and I live in a very small apartment. We had a lot of trouble finding space for everything and even ended up putting some things in his family storage unit. But that is enough about life. My life is relatively boring.
To Update: The Future
So, here is my thinking: This blog is something I would like to continue. It is something that I want to try and commit to posting to more regularly. Something like once a week, or once every two weeks, something like that. The thing is, I still need to figure out what exactly I want to post to it. Creative writing...things about Paganism...things about teaching...all of the above...I don't know. So, for the next few weeks/months I will be experimenting. Figuring out what I can produce in relatively decent amounts of time that, to me, are worth while. From there we'll just have to see how it goes.
I think it is time for bed, as I do work tomorrow and I have an hour drive in the morning.
Later cyber space!
Cheers
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