My school is one of the small schools mentioned in this
article. Yikes! What's going to happen to us?! Well, I can tell you that when I go down to the faculty cafeteria there is not a good vibe toward us. I am trying to convince my colleagues to stop wearing their keys around their necks as the cord they dangle from has our school's name in big letters. Thanks to
upthedownstaircase for the link.
On IFC there's a film called
An Angel At My Table, which is pretty interesting. If you're a teacher or a writer you might appreciate it more than most.
OK, so here is day two. Let's see how long I can keep it up.
Well, it's nice to be able to sleep in till 10 or 11 every day. That's for sure. I will be back up at 6:15 starting tomorrow. I can't wait! And there is quite a bit of work for me to finish--lesson plans, grading of classwork and tests, college work, etc. I am slowly chipping away at it but I am so keen on my surround sound system and DVDs that it's hard to concentrate. Plus there's that bullshit 'I deserve a break from it all' thinking that gets in my head. Well, I have had a good break already and it is time to get cracking again. I am pretty motivated just by the fact that I will be done with college for the spring term in just two weeks and a half from today. That's sweet. The only work I have to do is add ten pages or so to a bilingual paper. And write up some formal observations for methods class. OK, there are about 20 of those to do, so that'll take some time. But they are easy to do. Then there will be a two-week break or so till the next class, which only lasts about five weeks. That'll be OK as it's a special ed class and the professors in that department are very good teachers. It'll be nice to be done with grad school for a while. Or even for good. I will have spent the last three and a half years in grad school straight. Two master's later I can tell you DON'T DO IT! One's enough! All in all, it would've been a lot easier to do the second one as a regular citizen, not as a HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER. Strange breed indeed.
The plans for the France and Spain trip are coming along otherwise. As such bmac and I will travel to Nice, les Alpes, Paris, and Barcelona. So far anyway.
I come to my blog with great shame as I have not been here in over a month. Well, you know how it goes.
I am nearing the end of spring break. I didn't go anywhere. I did get some r and r and went out about town a little bit. I saw an off off Broadway
play about the G-spot. (A friend's sister was in it, OK?) I also got some Morrissey tickets. He's playing at the Apollo in New York City. How cool is this! I am going to four of the five show (yeah, Saturday night sold out in less than a minute!). I am taking two friends to the show and selling some extras on ebay. Whoever I sell them to will be sitting or standing next to me at two of the shows so I hope they're not weirdoes or miserable types. You have to be careful with Morrissey fans. Look at me for god's sake.
Teachers College is winding down ever so slowly. I cannot wait till it's over. I just don't have any gas left for this crap. The grad ceremony is in May though I have a last class to take in June. Anywho, the parents and two of the sisters are coming out to NYC for the ceremony and some fun. I scored tickets for Good Morning America for the women in my family and now I'm their hero. That was easy.
Here's a little something I found while crawling the web; it's written by my old rhetoric professor. I think
it's kinda neat.
I'm finally back on the bike pretty regularly. Thank god too as I think I was about to atrophy away at my desk grading papers.
I have booked my trip to France and other destinations in Europe this summer. I'm following le tour de France with my brother. It requires a lot of planning and cash but it's going to be fun.
Otherwise I lost my digital camera out on the last pub crawl--no, really--so no photos today.
I am so lame--and have no discipline this week to write--that I am going to stop this and get a beer and watch IFC right now--