Alive and kicking

[ringsandcoffee]

Hmm, no post since the 3rd. My bad. I almost posted my current Facebook status here, but that would just be spreading my frustration. Sooooooooo, instead, a nonsensical post.

Things to do:
-finish grading
-finish report cards, including the dreaded comments
-finish lesson plans
-find materials I'll need to use this week
-laundry
-buy/install new computer fan
-watch more of Little Dorrit

Spent several hours working at Starbucks today with Susan. Did a little more tonight, but I'm still putting off the writing assignments I need to grade. I'm happy with their quarterly writing samples, at least. Every quarter I swear to keep up with grading, and I don't know what happens.

...am I boring or am I just an adult?

Comments

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

Honey, you're an adult with responsibilities. It's not like normal adults have adventures all the time, or go jetting off to places, or have danger and intrigue. I personally find the everyday stuff you post to be reassuringly normal!

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Whew, I feel better.

The computer teacher always posts on FB when he's at the bar or a restaurant or doing something else fun. Makes me want to scream sometimes.

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

ROFL @ your icon - that's great!!

Ah, computer teacher - that explains it. Computer teacher = computer nerd = always online. (At least, in my world that's how it works.)

I'm glad you don't feel the need to incessantly update people on your moment-by-moment doings. I mean, I like to read the little details of what people do, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't worry that you somehow suck 'cause you're not constantly updating your status or whatever. :)

[roseleaf.livejournal.com]

Computer teachers also don't have quite the same amount of lesson planning and grading to keep up with, in my experience.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

He barely even teaches content anymore. The district has the kids on learning.com all the time. He's also a reading specialist so works with some small groups but still doesn't have nearly the workload.

[jessibobessi.livejournal.com]

1) an adult

2) I do the same thing with grading! Although now I feel like each week I keep saying "I HAVE to keep up on grading now!" and it just never seems to work out. Or it will for approximately 3 days and then...I don't even know what happens but all of a sudden I'm sitting there next to a 2-foot pile of papers.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I didn't grade a single writing assignment all quarter (kept putting them off) and now I'm doing them. I wanted to give their lang. arts grade based off their end of quarter writing samples (which I did score on the 6 traits) but that would mean I was being really lazy. So, now I'm plowing through 5 different assignments. I'm only grading 1-2 traits we focused on per assignment. They aren't very long, but still, why do I do this to myself???

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL....as a current student (albeit, one who is much older than yours) I find this really amusing and can't help but wonder if MY profs post stuff like this somewhere regarding grading the stuff that I turn in. *chuckling*

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I belong to a teacher community, where members teach anything from pre-school to college. So, yes, profs complain too.

I'm halfway done with grading, by the way. YAY!