August 26, 2004
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The Daily News
1 Well bust my buttons.
2 I guess the SECOND day of school needs a place here.
3 The SECOND day of school is much more hectic than the first. Why, you may ask?
4 Because you FAKE it through the first day, at least, as a teacher you do! Ah, come on!! Most of us are like cars that were parked in the weeds last June, and we suddenly need to start them up and have them running like a dream machine.
5 Just not so. ACTUALLY, what we do, is we fall to our knees before our favorite religious icon, and begin praying, and asking for eternal salvation.
6 Or not.
7 But the SECOND day of school comes at us as swiftly as a Randy Johnson fireball, and we'd better hit it out, or we will get clobbered.
8 I made it through the SECOND day of school with grace and style, despite having virtually no sleep, and a fairly meager lesson plan, AND despite arriving two minutes before school began.
9 Yeah, the job sounds easy, but trust me.
10 Every day must look as though you had it completely together, and that you know exactly what you are doing, how you intend to go about doing it, and then delivering.
11 Okay, I did.
12 And it worked.
13 Well...sort of.
14 More to come. We almost lost the Tundra in dry heat and nasty sand yesterday, but it's another story. We went to Grant Park iso a place for Senior Sunrise, and met with near calamity.
15 I'll be back.
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