zealous not jealous

I'm tired: proof that life is good. It's the delicious kind of tired that one earns from a productive day. I had meetings from 8-4:30 then I came home and answered a bevy of phone calls and emails. A friend took me out to dinner to celebrate my job; we had a good time catching up. I always get to hear how fabulous my brother is from this friend. She asked me, "Do you think he's the slightest bit spoiled with two big sisters and a mother who dote on him?" I told her we aren't the only members of his fan club-- just the founding members.

I was exasperated with the state of my classroom, but my sister and mother worked on it today while I was in new teacher orientation. My room was so disgusting that my mom dained to use the word, "gross". Yay, family to the rescue. Apparently, they had fun playing with the staff too.

Yesterday, I worked on my room after having breakfast with an old friend. We laughed so hard and discussed theology. It was good.

Tomorrow, we celebrate my mom's birthday with a day of festivities. She's going to enjoy herself. Friday, after teacher orientation I'm going out with some friends to say goodbye to N who's moving to Germany for two years.

As for the orientation, I'm a swinging pendulum. Sometimes, I'm really engaged and soaking up the ideas. Other times, I'm rolling my eyes (figuritively of course) and thinking this is my tax money at work. Some of the people are intelligent, creative and hard working. Some are annoying.

This flaccid excuse of a human being, let alone a teacher, had the audacity to ask me why they let me teach. Of course, this was after she told me that "she wasn't a reader". I kindly explained that I had taught and that I had real degrees. Perhaps, I took it too far when I told her that we made fun of education majors at my university. Seriously, you could pick them out. (I guess you could say that about Classics majors, English majors, etc.) But, where do you start with a person who has such a limited understanding that education departments are brand spanking new (with a none too impressive track record) in the span of things? Not to mention public education is basically a Puritan experiment, which I'm not quite sure I'd judge successful.

However, the chief contends that I will discover a few kindred spirits among the rabble.