Unprotected Post

Ok, some highlights from the protect post that I can share to the general public and stalkers alike:

*Computer crashed-currently using Mom’s at the moment, hope to have it back up very soon

*New boyfriend is AMAZING. just had to share

*I’m completely happy again. Life is really good right now.

Other things not in the protected post:

* I am going to get my TEFL Certificate (Teaching English as a Second Language) and move to France (hopefuly Paris). I want to teach English to (hot and young? lol) business men. I have always wanted to live in Paris (my soul feels at home there) and I gave that up once before, and I am not going to again. But it is all still up in the air, but that is my goal!

*Christmas was good. Santa sent me lots of movies and cute stuff. Tomorrow Mom and I are hitting the mall!! Family is good, had a nice time. It was a little tough since it was my first Christmas since D Day, but hey what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, right?

*My bro is engaged (since Turkey day-I was seriously sick so I couldn’t blog about it…or maybe i did? Damn you adhd!)

*My best friend is coming to visit me from Cali soon, so I am soooo excited! Look for pictures

*Spent Christmas Eve with the boyfriend’s fam and had a really great time. Really good people who are down to earth and laid back. Lots of fun

I really think thats all. My boyfriend is amazing and life is really really good. So, again if you want my password, just ask. Text me or email me!

Glad

I am glad I went to work today. I got the “pity looks” and the “im sorry”s etc, but I also got real compassion and understanding. It was nice to be social again and see familiar faces. Then I went into my classroom and I was at home. I opened up my cabinets and saw my penguins that my kids have gotten me and I smiled. I replaced the picture on my desk of me and the coward with a picture of me and my friend Cathy in Nice (see right) .  Thats a much nicer picture to look at than of the coward. lol.

But It felt good, like a theraputic good to be in my classroom. I am, for the first time this summer, excited to see my kids again. I know they will just brighten up my day. Update on the HR phone call-turns out they need me to do paper work. lol. I had to resign in february last year before they put me on Non-renewal (which means that S County Schools could NEVER rehire me and its a big red flag on a record). But then after I got my VA license (I only had a NC one before) they hired me back, no problem. Because of that, HR saw that I resigned, but they did not see that I was hired back. So they canceled everything-my email, my tax paper work, etc. So I have to go back and re fill out ALL of that. oh joy.  I needed to redo all of that stuff anyways because of the divorce. So, it works out.

I was freaking out though because knowing my luck something would just screw me. Its sad. The things I trust in scare me the most. Those are the things in my mind now that are going to fuck up my life. Why? Oh because I trusted in the coward and my marriage and that fucked up my life a bit (nothing I cant spring back from). So it makes sense that things I trusted, can no longer be trusted. Its almost easier for me to trust in new things than to trust in the tried and true. I know, weird. Thanks coward.

A New School Year

Today I have to go into work for a few hours. I am a buddy to not 1, but 2 new teachers. A buddy is someone who is still a relatively new teacher (1-3 years experience) and can give you the “real way” things happen around the school. Some lucky new teachers are paired up with a Buddy and a Mentor. A mentor is someone who has been teaching for a while (4 years +) and is more like a mentor in its truest sense. When I was a new teacher last year, I just had a mentor-who was wonderful! But no buddy for me. lol. I didn’t need one so its fine.

This year I will be buddy to the new 1 class only French Teacher, whom I’m told is a veteran teacher and just needs to know the RHS way, as well as the newest Spanish teacher who is a brand new teacher like I was last year. So, today I have to go in and meet them both at the Buddy luncheon and round table discussion! Then on Monday its back to work. Meetings, meetings, meetings. Oh joy.

I did get a phone call from one of the Spanish teachers yesterday telling me that the licensure specialist of the county has been trying to contact me. So, I called her and no answer. I have no idea why she would need to talk to me. Nor do I know why I can’t get into my school email anymore! The only thing that I can think of are my professional development hours. It says that I only have 17 finished (I need 20 a year) but I have done at  least 20 if not significantly more. Some have not shown up on the website and some have not been marked as “finished”. I’m really hoping thats the reason and it can be taken care of easily. Otherwise, I have no idea why she would need to talk to me. :-/ Hopefully she’ll call me back soon!!

Well I better get going. I need to get dressed. I’m still in my pj’s and I have NO IDEA what to wear to this thing today!! hehe. Plus side-I’ll hopefully get to bring some of my stuff into my classroom! Ciao for now!!