Classic Stories and Modern Tales
I’m back! Summer break is over and it’s officially fall for all of the students and teachers going back to school. For those of you who don’t know, my day job has me teaching history to middle schoolers. And though I miss my summer break fiercely, there are some reasons I’m excited to be back.
The students are on break this week, so I am too. I’ll be back with your regularly scheduled blog tomorrow.
Hello fellow bloggers!
After an unexpectedly long summer hiatus, I am back! And better than ever. Even dealing with a heat wave and no AC.
I’ll be back with real blogs next week, so what topics would you like to see?
And how was your summer?
I’m chaperoning my first major field trip this weekend. Me and a whole bunch of 7th graders. As excited as I am, I’m a little nervous as well. And since I tend to think in worst case scenarios, here are some of the things that I am worrying about:
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I’ve participated in (and won) NaNoWriMo four times. In fact, I’m working on self-publishing one of those novels right now. The past two NaNos, I’ve been working a full-time teaching job while trying to complete the challenge. It is stressful and crazy and hard, but it’s also one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done. Below the cut is my advice to anyone wanting to be a NaNoWriMo superstar while working a full-time job.
If you haven’t been following this blog, you don’t know that I am about to move for a new teaching job, and I’m about to start a whole new phase in my life. Because of that, I don’t have much time to blog. So this blog is like when your favorite TV show is on a break and you see a rerun. It’s a rerun blog. Enjoy some of my favorite posts I have made in the past. And hopefully I will return next week!
Let me preface this by saying that I am an adult. (Sometimes.) I’ve had full-time jobs, and I have lived in my own apartment. The apartment, however, was five minutes from where I grew up. I like where I grew up, so this was not a problem for me. And though I went away to college two hours away from where I grew up, I’ve never actually LIVED any distance from home. College is completely isolated and different. In three weeks, that is changing. I am moving an hour and a half for my new job. And I am scared (good scared, I think, but still scared).
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