Finished!!!

I just want to announce that I am finally done with my BEST portfolio for the CT State Department of Education. It has been one of the most miserable experiences of my life and has plagued me since the beginning of this school year growing ever more foul and evil month after month; i've sank to depths of depression and despair I haven't visited in years. I'd also like to point out that I finished this stupid thing without going back onto my Anxiety meds, which was an important goal for me. Sorry to anyone who I might have blown off, ignored, broken plans with, etc... the worst is now behind me!

In celebration of this glorious event, I will actually be leaving the house for the first time in quite a while to go see Disfear tonight in Wallingford!

Consider it my Debut!

Interview Tomorrow!

Tomorrow is my interview in Hartford. I'm very, very nervous. In a way I'd say I'm more nervous now than when I was first interviewing for jobs after I became certified. It might be because it's almost expected that I'm going to be landing this job. I feel like there's extra pressure on me do well. I guess I could say the job is mine to lose. I had a lot more to say, but I have to make my sub plans. I'm taking a day off tomorrow so I can work on my BEST and also go to my interview. 10AM sharp. Hopefully this time tomorrow I'll have a new job!

Men at Work

So i'm sitting after work having office detention, a duty every teacher dreads. My portfolio is due in 13 days. I need to read Catcher in the Rye so I can can stay ahead of the kids. At least I've read it before. Anyway, I often think of what else I could be doing instead of teaching. Unfortunately, I'm not actually qualified to do anything else, so my portfolio better turn out really damn well because I don't feel like doing it again next year. I do often think back to quite a few years ago when a friend and I wanted to become garbage men like Emelio Estevez and Charlie Sheen in Men at Work. Unfortunately that never panned out. I was telling some students in study hall today that if I was a garbage man I'd have to have a truck follow behind the garbage truck so I could take home all the cool stuff I found throughout the day. Well, I don't think that's going to happpen, so I better concentrate on teaching.