Kill Joys

One of the things I dislike about working in the public (and with the public) is that someone will come along and mess up a perfectly ok day with some crap. Now it’s no secret that I dislike my job. But I gotta work, ’cause I have to feed this pesky little habit called eating. Read more...

Learning Curves

Sometimes in school a test is given and students do poorly, so teachers apply a curve to allow more to pass. I don’t care for that process, but I could sure use one today for myself. See, I’m trying to put some extra features on this site, i.e. ads, and the instructions are as clear Read more...

I’m Spent…

I am overwhelmed with paper and reports. Too much. When do we get to just teach? And now they want us regular core teachers to add GYM to the class period. Lemme see — 55 minutes allocated per class. Typical class size = 25. That’s less than 3 minutes per student per day, and that’s Read more...

Two Weeks Can Really Go By Quickly

I’ve been back in the classroom for two weeks and I’m still alive. I am pleased. Teaching last year was horrific. I felt more like a warden at Alcatraz than a teacher. I still wonder if I managed to teach ANYTHING!  Oh wait, there were those handful of students who told me “gee, I really Read more...

One week down, a few more dozen to go…

I haven’t counted how many weeks until this new school year is over. Why bother? I will say, though, I’m having a much better experience. Last  year at this time, I was wailing like a baby. Misery was my middle name. This year, I actually have a lot of likable students. Maybe it’s the age. Read more...

Any Teachers Out There?

I will paint them blue… Read more...

Just a Wee Bit Frustrated

The very last thing I tried to do kinda capped off my day. I’ve been wanting to change the header on this site. So I found the info regarding the header, i.e. size., went into Gimp and proceeded to draw over the copy I made of the header file. I was feeling right proud of myself too. Read more...

Summer’s Over

Well not quite. Still have until September. But it’s over for teachers and students. I will say that’s this has been a nice long break. I didn’t do anything I didn’t want to do. I guess after spending the last school year doing just about everything that I didn’t want to do, I deserved that. Read more...

Adventures in Gimp

Granted, these are not high quality. They represent my first efforts in learning Gimp. I really like Gimp. I discovered that I really, really, like digital drawing. I hope to get better and better. A couple of these were tutorials that I took, like the one that looks like eggs in mid-air and the purplish Read more...

So Far, So Good

Crossing my fingers with the newest upgrade of WP. Now didn’t I read somewhere that 2.9 is lurking on the horizon? I ain’t complaining, though, especially since this upgrade went rather smoothly – cause WP is free. The fact that so many work so hard to keep the program up and running, at no cost Read more...

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