Is the year over yet?

Lots of students counting down the weeks, and in some cases days, to the end of the year. I guess I am, too, although I dread what the summer money drought is going to do to our already decimated money troubles. I'm just tired and cranky all the time, and it's been keeping me from applying for any jobs, so that just adds to the frustration.

So let me talk about a good thing: This is a fun time of the year to sub, at least, because if a teacher has been doing his or her job right (like I certainly didn't last year in Marysville), the students all know the routines, and I, as the teacher, have to actually do very little. I've seen this in a few classes the last couple of weeks, notably the junior high PE classes I taught earlier this week where the students were already doing the stretching before I even got out there to take roll.

Last week, I had a now rare assignment in a regular elementary class. That was where I did my training and student teaching, but I haven't done it much lately, what with all the math and science jobs I've been finding at the junior and senior high levels. My tutoring job also keeps me from accepting all elementary jobs, since many of them get out too late for me to get to the learning center on time. But it was good to have one class for the whole day, and to actually get the chance to get to know some of the students, even for a little while.

Okay, I guess that's about it. More next time I can squeeze in the time to write.

Quick pop-in to say "Hello!"

Yup, busy weekend, which resulted in no post. Fortunately, I have a light-ish day today, and have a moment to get all of my loyal readers caught up.

Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week. At my tutoring place, we got baskets filled with fruit and candy. While I appreciate the gesture, I can't help thinking that the money spent on that would have also bought Laura and me a nice dinner out, or a gift card to the mall, either of which would have been much more practical...

I subbed a lot of high school science last week, and one of the teachers I filled in for took advantage of his absence to show his classes a movie he generally shows every year anyway: Apollo 13. Yup, it's a great film, and I enjoyed seeing it again. The only day I wasn't "teaching" science, I had a local junior high math job, which went very well.

Now, if only I could figure out how to do less teaching, while still making money, so that I would have a little breathing space to fill out applications and apply for jobs for next year!