Friday, October 2, 2009

Be more constructive with your feedback

I am so terrible at keeping up with this. I do try, though. Occasionally.
Last I wrote, it was shortly before my week off. I needed that week off. Work is quickly becoming much more difficult. It's almost hard to describe. Imagine training for an extremely difficult position for six months, then learning within a few weeks that your entire position has changed and no one can help you. That's where we all are right now. And one of the teachers I work with is extremely incompetent, which irks me to no end. I like to think of myself as a quasi-intellectual; no Jean-Paul Sartres, but intelligent, nonetheless. So, working with a teacher who is completely oblivious to anything resembling knowledge is more than a little irritating. Plus, I am constantly degraded and "tattled on" for trying to do my job. It's a power-control thing, which is utterly ridiculous, considering this is a similar issue which we address with our 10 year old EBD kids. So I'm pretty drained. The teacher I enjoyed working with has moved on to another position, which stressed me out for a while, but luckily, he was replaced with a college friend, so I feel pretty fortunate to have someone with which I can communicate easily. I spent today organizing our classroom, something I haven't been able to effectively do since I started. I also recently started the kids on a big collaborative art project. It's hard to describe, but I'll post pictures of it once we finish. Everyone seems to be very impressed and I'm so proud of the kids.
I still love our house and I still love Linus. We've been spending our time playing Beatles Rock Band and the Ghostbusters game. Not much else has happened. I've seen my family a lot lately. Work has been a lot more consuming than expected. I do love my co-workers for the most part, so I wouldn't dream of leaving any time soon. However, I've been more inclined to become a stay-at-home mom lately...
Wedding planning is stressing me out for no particular reason. In fact, it only seems to be manifesting itself in my dreams. The other night, I dreamed that my wedding dress had poofy sleeves. Where did that come from? I'm not even entirely interested in planning this whole ordeal. But, I am aware that it will be a pretty large affair, so I've still got to get my act together...
I had a pretty eventful happy hour earlier tonight, so I'm pretty inclined to fall asleep right here. Better stop before I get myself into trouble. Au Revoir...