So, it has occurred to me that lately I am in an excellent place to start doing this again. I started and stumbled along for a little while, and then got to a pretty bad place in my personal life, and to not talk about it would have been impossible, and to talk about it would have been just pretty much the worst idea ever. So I come here now from a good place, and a place where perhaps I can actually talk about some things that may be interesting, maybe even useful to someone other than myself. Really, I just want to write again because I no longer have my college newspaper as a venue.
I have found a semi-teaching job at a good public high school in the area, but I sometimes work some pretty thankless 13-hour days. I like my job because I get to work with the same students every day (different from substitute teaching), and because these are students who really need the help. The only problem is that usually they don't want any help and they will do anything sometimes to avoid me. I feel like sheepdog trying to heard them from their study halls and the library to the classroom to get them to do any work. The students are mostly 9th and 10th graders who have very little grasp of reality, and are failing many of their classes, if not all of them. I think there are moments of clarity though when I get through to them, and they are mostly good kids. I would be lying if I said I wasn't dying for spring break.
Hopefully these will get better... I'm just getting my footing again...
When I wrote this earlier, I was watching my nephew, who is so grown up now, play quietly while his younger sister was napping and his twin was out at a friends. It's funny how they can be terrors one minute and little angels the next. But I love them always. It is their 6th birthday on Monday.
