The long and short of it.

So here’s why I’ve been MIA.

If you know me well, you know that I have been unhappy at my job for the last 4 years. Being a teacher where I live is very competitive for the “good” schools. I have gone to countless interviews over the years, and I finally gave up and decided the only way I was going to get a better job was to;
1. Get a Masters Degree
2. Get National Board Certified

So I entered a Masters program and started the process for NBC last spring, right after we got engaged. I figured that I would get NBC certified in 2009, and we would get married, then I would graduate in 2010, and then look for a new job that spring, with new credentials. And I would be more likely to get a job now that I had a packed resume.

I plugged through the Masters program, and the NBC, and then, suddenly, in October, I got an email from a former collegue at my current school. He was opening a new school, was going to be the vice principal, and wanted me to apply for an English job there.
This didn’t fit in to my plan. I had a wedding to plan, NBC (which I whined about here), not to mention a full time job. But I knew that I needed to push to get out of here for my own sanity.  I am just so unhappy.   And so I applied for the job, interviewed and got it. This was November.

Now, dear reader, you may wonder why I wasn’t ecstatically posting about my new job in November, but many of my co-workers read this blog, and I had to keep it a secret. For 6 months. It was hard, very hard, not to just yell “I quit” every time I had a bad day. It was like knowing you had ice cream in the freezer for 6 mohtns, and you want to eat it so bad, but you have to let it sit. It was very hard.

So now done is done, I have 25 more days here.  I haven’t told my students, but I started cleaning out my classroom.  I told my Principal and Vice Principal that I’m leaving (there is a very long protocol for this) filled out all of the appropriate paperwork, and tried to finish wedding stuff while working on moving on.  I’ve been here 5 years, and I am just ready to go.  So posting will be sporatic as I pack up my classroom where I’ve taught 750 children.  Wow.

25 more days.  I know I’ll be so much happier somewhere else.

Friday inspiration, LDOS edition.

1. It’s the last day of school, suckas!

2. I’ll be having a cocktail or two with Abby and Amy.

3. Brendan’s away in Toronto

4. I plan to finish Sopranos season 6 this weekend.

5. I could use some ice cream. Or frozen custard. At scooters!

6. Byes.

Life, Updated

I am back in school.  For a Masters with National Board teaching Certification.

Part of me is feeling overwhelmed both financially and physically. 

Wedding planning+Friends+Fiance+School+Work+The Flu= I feel dead

But I think this will be really good for me, I think I need some “direction” in my life. 

Having someone tell me what to do (and give me homework!)  every week is kinda fun.

That is all.

Finito

Grad School Application submitted. Check!

Lost Watched.                                      Check! (Awesome)

Taxes done.                                          Check!

Finances re-worked                            Check!

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