The Countdown Begins…
Teachers back to school here on Wednesday. Students back August 3. Yes – it’s obscenely early.
But I am SO looking forward to it!
We’ve already got the cafe planned – same as last year, but not as often. We’re going to open the morning coffee shop and plant herbs. I am also thinking about doing my own version of "Hell’s Kitchen" – except I won’t get to swear at the kids (darn it all.) Realistically, it will be more like a "Top Chef" type show. I think I am going to let the one or two "best" teams from each class compete. I’ll video whatever their challenge is….show it on the morning show….and either have someone judge or have the students vote on their favorites. We’ll eliminate teams until we crown one "Top Chef". Whaddya think? You know what I think? I think I am insane.
What’s that – you don’t think so? But I have PROOF! HAH!
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this…but I don’t cook. (and really – don’t tell anyone – this is our dirty little secretI am a horrible cook. I am not domestic at all. Although I respect Martha Stewart for many reasons – her psyche is a foreign to me as a Martian’s would be. And YET – I have undertaken teaching cooking skills, ‘catering’ school events, a take-out cafe for the faculty and staff, and now a morning coffee bar.
So what could be more insane natural than taking up an herb garden and a cooking show?
Yada yada yada – blah blah blah – ad infinitum. You guys are gonna get sick of reading my school ramblings.
So let’s change the subject.
How’s my love life, you ask? Great. Super. Marvelous. And stored neatly in my sex kitten underwear drawer, right along with the poopie diapers of a couple of entries ago.
OK – not much to talk about there.
What about that great vacation you’re planning?
HUH?
Nothing much to talk about there either.
And how about that book you’ve been thinking of writing?
Oh – well the current plan is to do a humoros retrospective about my days as a school teacher. GOD! I’m becoming one-dimensional.
I guess I’ll call it quits for the night….and go set up my roll book. Er…..and go read a sexy novel to fuel my fires. Right.
you know, this is your life, you’re devoted to your students, and that’s great. I like reading about your school experiences, but part of that could be that i intend to be going into that line of business, but it could also be your personality and writing style. I think that last bit is more likely.
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I think a humorous book about your career would be great.
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ryn: I like hot wind as long as it isn’t coming out of some jerk’s mouth…:)
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But it’s people like you who should be teachers! So talk away!!!!!
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That would make a wonderful book. You do that! In allllll your spare time!! *ducking*
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You’re always too damn busy at school to HAVE a love life, hon! LOL Hugz
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you have a sex kitten underwear drawer? 😉 you go, SW… write, people will read! you are wonderfully real and entertaining~
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A litle boy found one of those things hidden under the bed. It had a button to push for special effects. He brought it school for show & tell. Teacher flew on stage to stop the show, stuffed it back in the bag & took boy & bag to principal’s office. Principal called the parents & they came. He showed dad the item, then mom. Mom got all red faced. What followed was left to the imagination.
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August 3!!! Gah!
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*chuckle* i’m no great shakes in the kitchen either but practice makes perfect as they say. Especially in the kitchen, I’m up to frying eggs without causing any huge fires now! 😀
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That would be a great book. You’re so busy now though I wonder when you’d have time to write it. I bet it would sell though. Cha-ching!
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ryn: I know what you mean LOL I was really focused on the ice cream also. Hench the placement and mention of it I was eating it as I wrote the entry and was totally in LOVE with it at the moment, maybe more then hubby? nah I’m still a newlywed hehehe. Lael
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you are the type of teacher every child should get. A studets, f students. And I’d read your book if you ever wrote it.
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ryn: someone else was having that problem too. Does that mean you want a meme?
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Ahhh clever Harley (human one!) has done his homework. Up to 6 months they only 20 mins walk a day otherwise they become “leggy” ( book’s words, not mine!). But they do say that this will probably take 40 mins due to everyone stopping you to admire the dog! LOL We know they love to play and he has already proved how intelligent he is! Hugz
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i did it for you anyway. quit being a wimp 😉
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Yes, you are totally insane! Thank goodness for insane teachers like you! Best wishes for a great year ahead – withg still a little time to eat and sleep. RYN: Ys, I think often we only learn by first making our mistakes. Unfortunately, when we are dealing with other people’s lives, that’s a big worry. I particularly wish world leaders didn’t first have to wage war to learn that it doesn’t work.
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That’s very early! We only broke up for summer two weeks ago and I have another month off work yet! (I won’t get sick of your school ramblings…)
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Wow; that’s an early start to the school year. Here, we don’t start until after the September Labour Day holiday. You sound like you’re raring to go, though and full of great ideas. I really admire what you do and how you do it. Good luck!
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You have written a book, which we have enjoyed(!) to the hilt and look forward to more pages. It must be difficult to be rolling along each year and then big shift for a few months then big shift again to the new school year, and shifting year to year with what each year’s generation brings. You are ever innovative–the video and top chef theme sound fun as heck! And shoot, you might learn to cook. 🙂
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What better way to get kids motivated in a skill (cooking) than to be deficient in it, yourself? They can gain self-confidence by teaching the teacher.I have a little plaque hanging in my studio that says, “Trust Your Crazy Ideas.” Here’s to insane.You are printing out and saving these entries, right? Because you’re writing your first draft here on OD.
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I think my daughter goes back to school September 4, but her last day of school, just to pick up report cards and so on, was June 30. With a smile…
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i took up an herb garden. all i can get to grow there is basil. i have an assload of basil. basil likes hotass weather. did i tell you it’s hot over here? i can hardly wait till october 31st. i like halloween. a lot.
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Getting sick of reading about the school ramblings is utterly impossible, SW. Impossible.
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I hope you do write that book about teaching. I love reading about it here.
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