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If I had ANY other job options right now, even scrubbing toilets, I'd take one in a heartbeat. 12 hour day at work, and I still am not done. I crave the days I give tests because it means I get a break from teaching. However, I can't sit and get work done because I have to answer questions, etc, plus I have to grade the tests. Oh, new math series, yay, right? No, not yay. Still don't have student books. The premade tests are all word problems. Ok, since when did math become another branch of reading comprehension? If the objective I teach is to subtract large numbers, don't give me a test full of word problems where they have to figure out what to do, and then hope they don't screw up the subtraction.

WHY IS ROUNDING NUMBERS SO HARD?? Across the board I hear that kids just don't get this!

I want a job I can leave at work at the end of the day. Even if they are long days, I'd love to be able to say I'm done, but that never happens. Next lessons to plan, materials to figure out, and now, tests to create since the ones I've been given are crap.

I need dinner.

Dinner!

Ground beef + 1/2 chopped onion (that didn't get sauteed long enough) + 2 cans of diced tomatoes + 2 cans tomato sauce + a bunch of random seasoning. Simmer for as long as it takes you to cook one box of whole wheat pasta that turns out to be the nasty-tasting brand that you dump in the trash (and have 2 other boxes of) and make another box. Ladle sauce over pasta and enjoy!

It was actually pretty good. Next time I won't hurry through the process, which should only make it better.