Finally putting them up

Since moving in to my newish place, I really haven't taken all the to truly make the place mine. Yeah, I have a few photos up, mostly of things from the past. I had many frames that contained old photos that I took with me, which needed to be filled with new memories.

Well, that has now been accomplished...well sort of. Several of my larger frames are now up, and I'm working on filling a couple more. A friend of mine is moving far way, to a place where she doesn't really know that many people. As I told them tonight, we all need to move on. Remember that every beginning has an end, and every end a new beginning. So remember and cherish the good times, and learn from the ones that weren't so enjoyable.

I, myself, am beginning a new chapter in my life. I look forward to all of its joys and challenges.

Birthday to me!

So it's my birthday, and I can cry if I want to! But no, I'm not crying. There isn't anything to cry about. I had the day off from work, so I don't have to deal with his incompetence. Though I have been called in for Jury Duty. I know, many of you think that its a waste of time, but hey I see it as doing my civic duty! Was released early, so I got tip run a few errands. Got the title changed on my car, car registration done, and even took some time for me to relax.

I was taken out to dinner by a new friend that night, discovering a new place that has great food, live music, dancing (not that I dance), and no cover (read my yelp review).

The day after was good, woke up after not getting enough sleep from the night before. Worked out, went to a send of party for a friend/ex-girlfriend. Then to my own dinner party with some friends I don't see as often. Best laugh of the evening was from the wife of the married couple.

We started taking about the old days when we all played D&D. Yes, I played don't judge. We were taking about dice rolling and how my friend the DM (dungeon master) would always roll poorly, giving us the players a great advantage. So he changed the way he did things to make it more challenged for us to succeed. Then another friend talked about how his 20-sided die that had two 20's on it would never roll a 20. Then I brought up how the ex-wife would always roll 20's, staying even I suspected her of cheating. This is were the comment came in. In true fashion, she simply states, "but she was cheating." Everyone begins to laugh loudly. People begin to look at us from different tables, but we didn't care. We ended the evening early so I can take a hike the following day.

This birthday is definitely turning out better than last. Thanks to all my friends new and old, for taking the time to spend out with me.

I Don't Have to Tell You.

"I don't have to tell you."

That's what I was told today. What context, you may ask? Well there's a bit of a back story to this, so let me begin from three weeks ago. At the school I work at, we have intersession classes for students that failed the first semester of math and/or English. In years pass, I have never volunteered nor have I been asked to do intersession, but this year I figured why not give it a try.

I signed up to do math, as I feel I'm pretty good at it, and it's 7th grade math...I'm good enough at the subject to do 7th grade math, so in to the lion's den I went. The week leading up to our first session, I went and talked to the math teacher, trying to figure out what theses students needed. I went to the other teacher that was going to doing the same grade and subject as I was so we could coordinate our efforts. I bought materials, created a wiki, slide presentations, worksheets, pacing plan, the whole nine yards as we could say, all in preparation for the class.

I asked the math teacher what the students need help with...what concepts did they need to learn, answer, I'll get back to you. I asked what I should be doing...answer, math. So the other teacher and myself began getting things together to teach these kids. I asked, what I should be doing...answer, "Go over, reteach things that students were suppose to have learned in the first semester. So again, working with the other intersession teacher, we created something from nothing. No guidance, no input from our principal. So for intersession, I asked what I was suppose to do. Students were to be taught first semester material. OK, I can do that.

My principal came to observe me, and then made comments that I was doing things that were too easy. This was the second class with the students, and we were going over basic operations, adding, subtracting, multiplication, division. Things that they were struggling on. I setup the pacing plan to cover everything they did in the first semester, starting with basic operations. Well, he came to my class again recently, and this time put a letter in my mailbox. The letter said, and I'm paraphrasing here, thank you for taking the time to teacher 7th grade math intersession. Unfortunately your class is being closed, sorry for any inconvenience."

No explanation, no reason, just 3 sentences. So two things popped into my head at that moment, first, "does this mean my students have to keep their F's from first semester. Second, what, if anything, did I do wrong?

I found out the answer to the first question real quick...my students were going to still have intersession, which is good, they all need it. The second however, was a bit more elusive. I went to talk to the principal, and he could not give me a straight answer as to why I was removed. At first, he told me that he didn't need to tell me why. Then he said that he didn't feel that I was preparing them for the CST (California Standards Test). So I asked what the purpose of intersession was, remediation or test prep.? No straight answer.

So in the end, I'm not going intersession anymore. I don't know what the official reason is, but I've been told by my birdies that it's because I wasn't doing test prep, and was actually doing my job of re-mediating my students.

It's been awhile

Wow...I haven't posted in so long, I'm not even sure where to start. It's been almost two months since my last post, and I'm not sure if that's a good sign or a bad one. I guess on one hand its good. I haven't had any developments that I've felt I've really had to write about. On the other hand, that could also mean that I just haven't been writing the things that have been bothering me. Which it is, I'm completely unsure.


Time truly heals many of the wounds that life causes. Time allows us to move on and go forward. Time, given enough of it, can even allow us to forgive, and maybe even forget. So, I've been working on just that, forgiving and trying to forget. I'm moving on, going forward with my life. I'm letting the sands of time work it's magic on me.


Changes are coming, I'm taking steps to reorganize my life for me. I'm working getting me in order. I'm focusing on the tasks that I have for myself. Work is moving forward. Life moving forward. Funny thing, I feel the ex is still trying to get at me. Dating, now there's an activity I'm not use to doing, but more on that next time. For now, I need to check to see if I have Jury Duty.