Saturday, July 19, 2008

Got the Packet

Today I got the prerequisite district packet for the 2008-2009 school year. Still in 6th grade.. still in the Science department :) Love it! It made me start thinking about the upcoming school year, and I am excited. I will most likely have a student teacher and many observers. Penny deals are happening at the office stores. I am now tenure. Get a nice raise. Tyler got a humungo raise not two weeks ago. Everything is looking up.

After commenting on another blog today, I could only think about what a klutz I am in the month or so before school. Sometimes it is something major, sometimes it is just pure holy cowness. It always seems that there is something big that happens in the first days and weeks of school to keep me on my feet.

My first year of teaching, I awoke on my birthday to find a cyst of some sort. I had to have surgery to deal with it and it turned out to be ok. I just have a nice battle scar.

My second year of teaching, I was working in my room the week before school and I was standing on a chair putting up border on a bulletin board. The next thing I know, I am on the floor in great pain. I had a huge indentation on my left side with bad bruising right away. I had landed on an overhead cart that was to my right..... yes, I had done a 180 in the air and landed on the cart on the opposite side. I have no idea who it happened, but a bruised kidney was the result.

My third year was the summer of the knee. I found out that I have significant wear and tear of the kneecap and need knee replacements. They won't do this for another 20 or so years, but I am living it up until then.

My fourth year was uneventful. In fact, I was waiting for something to happen at any moment and it didn't.

So I am hoping I am on the up trend this year. Some of you know what I am going through personally and I am hoping for a huge success to keep with this trend.

Hope you are all doing well. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend. I am off to cook up some buffalo burgers and homemade french fries for the fam.