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- Cherry_Pie September 2015
- flossy_log_lady September 2015
- kdawg September 2015
- MirandaJuly September 2015
- swamp_knobbler_mahan September 2015
- the_owls September 2015
- YoursTruly September 2015
Who Is Back At Work?
Cherry Pie, are you there? Are the kids back?
Any other teacher-types on here?
I'm back in Ye Olde Office. It's poppin' off out in the hallway. Someone is singing scales, someone else is blowin' a horn. People are running around in shorts and t-shirts because classes technically haven't started yet.
I just had my annual check-in with the chair which is always devastating because he gives you a huge packet of papers explaining how to get tenure and you read it and you're like "well there is no way I am going to be able to do this" and he's like "have a nice day" and you're like "bye"
Everyone is in the hallway high-fiving and pretending to stab themselves in the eyes when you say "how does it feel to be back"
I finally got the facilities lady to remove at least some of the millions of pieces of superfluous furniture that were in my office so now I feel like I live in a mansion
I just met the new vocal professor who expressed optimism about "I think I figured out how to print to the copy room" and I said "HA! That's a fool's dream" and she looked shocked but I know I am right. I said "Make HFA buy you a printer, they bought me one even though somebody else told me they wouldn't."
I met with the bookkeeper to ask her some questions and at the end I apologized and said "I'm not a stupid person" and she said "I know you're not" and I said "I'm really sorry you have to deal with me" and she said "I understand your position"
My new admin assistant asked me how to dial out using our landline and I said "I don't know, tell me if you find out"
He also noted that the document I had printed to pass out at our staff meeting says "Fall 2013 Professor Epstein" at the top of it
Also I got lost on the way to campus
And I already have gotten an email from a student saying they won't be here for the first week of class
My syllabi aren't finished
I forgot a whole huge thing I have to write and we moved and I can't find the notebook where all my notes on the thing are
And last night I got drunk and broke a light bulb
Any other teacher-types on here?
I'm back in Ye Olde Office. It's poppin' off out in the hallway. Someone is singing scales, someone else is blowin' a horn. People are running around in shorts and t-shirts because classes technically haven't started yet.
I just had my annual check-in with the chair which is always devastating because he gives you a huge packet of papers explaining how to get tenure and you read it and you're like "well there is no way I am going to be able to do this" and he's like "have a nice day" and you're like "bye"
Everyone is in the hallway high-fiving and pretending to stab themselves in the eyes when you say "how does it feel to be back"
I finally got the facilities lady to remove at least some of the millions of pieces of superfluous furniture that were in my office so now I feel like I live in a mansion
I just met the new vocal professor who expressed optimism about "I think I figured out how to print to the copy room" and I said "HA! That's a fool's dream" and she looked shocked but I know I am right. I said "Make HFA buy you a printer, they bought me one even though somebody else told me they wouldn't."
I met with the bookkeeper to ask her some questions and at the end I apologized and said "I'm not a stupid person" and she said "I know you're not" and I said "I'm really sorry you have to deal with me" and she said "I understand your position"
My new admin assistant asked me how to dial out using our landline and I said "I don't know, tell me if you find out"
He also noted that the document I had printed to pass out at our staff meeting says "Fall 2013 Professor Epstein" at the top of it
Also I got lost on the way to campus
And I already have gotten an email from a student saying they won't be here for the first week of class
My syllabi aren't finished
I forgot a whole huge thing I have to write and we moved and I can't find the notebook where all my notes on the thing are
And last night I got drunk and broke a light bulb
Comments
Hired my TA, lecture notes only half done, don't have a table in my new house yet despite living there for a month, friends coming back to town, persistent 90 degree humid heat, homesick and generally feeling transitional malaise.
NOG
CIDER
WOOLIES
At least he has another teacher helping him cover the latin curriculum this year, so it won't be so overwhelming. Also I think they're not making him teach P.E. (although this is a ridiculous school where teaching P.E. could just mean taking kids "hiking" aka walking around in Rock Creek Park all semester.
H did at least find a copy of our Fake Kid's admissions essay which he wrote in 7th grade. The prompt was to write about imagining having dinner with someone of your choosing, what you would ask, and what you would tell that person about yourself. Fake Kid's essay was about dining with Obi Wan Kenobi. They had tortellini with pesto. Obi Wan had a glass of chardonnay while Fake Kid had root beer, and Chocolate Lava Cake for dessert.
would be very emo if this kid suddenly got an email from me saying "DID YOU CALL THE PLUMBER OR WHAT"
I start teaching on Monday, wish me luck.
So yeah. That was a fun phone call home.
I am awed by your job!!!!!!
Its funny to think that if this happened in my classroom it would be a next-level police-calling event
like, there are so many bad ways that interaction could go. A teacher could so easily over-shame a kid or make it a weirdly big deal, or embarrass him, or give him the space to deny what he'd done (or a teacher could just not deal with it at all, which would be what I would want to do), etc. But you just calmly and straightforwardly handled it! It's awesome.
"circle time""penis"
i think i know what was going on.
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