Monday, February 23, 2009
Yikes, tempus fugit!
It's more than a year since I last blogged here. (I'd sort of forgotten about it, but might as well keep it going.)
At least one very exciting thing has happened since the last entry - I have become a grandmother! Porscha is absolutely the cutest, best baby in the whole world - and she is now a whole year old! I enjoy her more than I would have thought possible.
On the flip side of that great event, at least one rather stressful thing has occurred. Sherman Indian High School layed off (in the new vernacular - they experienced a reduction in force / a RIF) 34 people and I was one of them. I'm sad, it was a most interesting place to work. But there is good news, I have been hired at Somerset as a Social Studies teacher. Somerset is a non-public school, which means it is actually a corporation that services the most difficult kids. Some are emotionally disturbed and others have been sent by the courts. It will be a challenge. But in this economy having a job is a good thing.
At least one very exciting thing has happened since the last entry - I have become a grandmother! Porscha is absolutely the cutest, best baby in the whole world - and she is now a whole year old! I enjoy her more than I would have thought possible.
On the flip side of that great event, at least one rather stressful thing has occurred. Sherman Indian High School layed off (in the new vernacular - they experienced a reduction in force / a RIF) 34 people and I was one of them. I'm sad, it was a most interesting place to work. But there is good news, I have been hired at Somerset as a Social Studies teacher. Somerset is a non-public school, which means it is actually a corporation that services the most difficult kids. Some are emotionally disturbed and others have been sent by the courts. It will be a challenge. But in this economy having a job is a good thing.
