I'm working at the Y tonight. And for whatever reason, a bird, a slight breeze, whatever, the power goes out. When it comes back on a few seconds later the fire alarm won't turn off and a burning plastic smell starts spreading through the lobby.
Of course I can't find a flashlight or a director. Finally, the fitness director comes in...I've already called the fire department. She tells me to evacuate the building.
I can't get these idiots to leave. I'm serious. It's worse than a Middle School fire drill. I had to tap a dumbass on the head who refused to get out of the pool - he wouldn't listen to the lifeguard. Idiots wanted to shower first.
Eh brah...how you like dose toxic fumes?
Jeez.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Stupid Cute Kids
So it's been another week at school of organizational chaos...every day I / we have to pull ideas and decisions out of our asses thanks to no leadership and no structure. I'm trying not to show my frustration in front of the kids, but it's difficult.
Mini-Tangent Alert: I've already started looking for work back in Rochester. I sent resume's to the Center for Disability Rights for a Manager of Deaf Services and to Alternatives for Battered Women, for a Domestic Violence Education Coordinator. I contacted the City School District and updated my online teaching application through BOCES. Around Thanksgiving I'll pick it up for smaller gigs. OK...Tangent over.
So, thanks to not being able to get anything cool for us to do this week for our field outing (I found out about that I had to plan it last Friday afternoon) I took kids to the library to do research for their upcoming science projects, that I'm really not involved with. Because we've pretty much gone to tracking the kids, today's group was the "good" group. The teachers call them that in private and the rest of the kids do as well. But I digress.
One of my little 6th graders finished her assignment early, and being a little hyper she decided to hang around Mr. Atias and talk. Well, I'm starting to wonder if I should be flattered or not that the kids feel comfortable in saying anything around me. Somehow this child came to the conclusion that I need a wife. (I know, I know)
Well, it seems that she has taken it on as her mission in life to find me a wife. Great. An arranged marriage. By an 11-year-old. My life has sunk to this. At least she stopped trying to pawn off her grandmother on me. (Grandma actually lives in Rochester of all places...and the kid's parents are from the Flower City...as the ice cream truck/child abduction van plays every day in my hood: it's a small world afterall.)
She's threatening to put an ad in the Maui News.
Stupid cute kids.
Seriously though...I'm starting to get an oogy feeling...the new 6th graders are starting to bond with me. And I'm going to leave.
Humbug!
Mini-Tangent Alert: I've already started looking for work back in Rochester. I sent resume's to the Center for Disability Rights for a Manager of Deaf Services and to Alternatives for Battered Women, for a Domestic Violence Education Coordinator. I contacted the City School District and updated my online teaching application through BOCES. Around Thanksgiving I'll pick it up for smaller gigs. OK...Tangent over.
So, thanks to not being able to get anything cool for us to do this week for our field outing (I found out about that I had to plan it last Friday afternoon) I took kids to the library to do research for their upcoming science projects, that I'm really not involved with. Because we've pretty much gone to tracking the kids, today's group was the "good" group. The teachers call them that in private and the rest of the kids do as well. But I digress.
One of my little 6th graders finished her assignment early, and being a little hyper she decided to hang around Mr. Atias and talk. Well, I'm starting to wonder if I should be flattered or not that the kids feel comfortable in saying anything around me. Somehow this child came to the conclusion that I need a wife. (I know, I know)
Well, it seems that she has taken it on as her mission in life to find me a wife. Great. An arranged marriage. By an 11-year-old. My life has sunk to this. At least she stopped trying to pawn off her grandmother on me. (Grandma actually lives in Rochester of all places...and the kid's parents are from the Flower City...as the ice cream truck/child abduction van plays every day in my hood: it's a small world afterall.)
She's threatening to put an ad in the Maui News.
Stupid cute kids.
Seriously though...I'm starting to get an oogy feeling...the new 6th graders are starting to bond with me. And I'm going to leave.
Humbug!
Monday, October 20, 2008
You May Need Some Caffine For This
Norm Chomsky isn't the most dynamic speaker in the world, but if you have a cup of coffee and 10 minutes to spare, this is interesting.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Save Me a Shovel
Well, that may be a bit premature, but I've stepped up my timetable a bit. Work's gotten to be a bit too much, especially if my non-work hours suck as bad as they do. So I'm starting to look for work back in Rochester for January. Again, doesn't mean I'm coming. If I find a job, cool. Right now, I'll even take a long-term sub job if it lasts the rest of the school year.
The charter school has just gotten too unpredictable. We have one teacher who goes on her own and books these massive extra-curricular stuff that affects the entire school and the lead teacher insists on planning the next week on the Friday before. I just found out on Friday afternoon that I have to plan our field outing for this coming week. That's bullshit. I'm just tired of having no control over my schedule, I have no idea what I'm teaching from day to day. Right now, it's just a job and one I don't really like that much, so if I have nothing else going on in Hawaii, I really don't have a reason to stay.
So, I'll see if I can figure something out for the holiday. I've already sent a note to the City School District and I'll update my teaching stuff on the BOCES website for a bunch of the suburban schools. And I'll be scoping out all the social agencies.
Let me know if you see any gigs you think I could survive in.
Oh...brief PS...I was talking to a few people about a possible gig with Amnesty International. I was just informed that with the economy that they've instituted a hiring freeze and the postition won't be posted for (at least) six months if ever.
The charter school has just gotten too unpredictable. We have one teacher who goes on her own and books these massive extra-curricular stuff that affects the entire school and the lead teacher insists on planning the next week on the Friday before. I just found out on Friday afternoon that I have to plan our field outing for this coming week. That's bullshit. I'm just tired of having no control over my schedule, I have no idea what I'm teaching from day to day. Right now, it's just a job and one I don't really like that much, so if I have nothing else going on in Hawaii, I really don't have a reason to stay.
So, I'll see if I can figure something out for the holiday. I've already sent a note to the City School District and I'll update my teaching stuff on the BOCES website for a bunch of the suburban schools. And I'll be scoping out all the social agencies.
Let me know if you see any gigs you think I could survive in.
Oh...brief PS...I was talking to a few people about a possible gig with Amnesty International. I was just informed that with the economy that they've instituted a hiring freeze and the postition won't be posted for (at least) six months if ever.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
I Dare You to Download These
I've been meaning to get around to this and it's been dead at the Y so here it is...
Whitee Ringtones!!!
Yep. You download them to your computer then do whatever voodoo you need to to get it to your phone. Usually a USB cord does the trick, though you may have to get a driver for it.
Jesus Just Wants to Dance
Sexmom
The Stuart Bedasso Theme Song
They're safe for work...relatively...Sexmom is close to the line. They're less than 30 seconds of the beginning of each. Enjoy.
Whitee Ringtones!!!
Yep. You download them to your computer then do whatever voodoo you need to to get it to your phone. Usually a USB cord does the trick, though you may have to get a driver for it.
Jesus Just Wants to Dance
Sexmom
The Stuart Bedasso Theme Song
They're safe for work...relatively...Sexmom is close to the line. They're less than 30 seconds of the beginning of each. Enjoy.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Back to School
Today was the first day back after the break. Which was good...I needed to get back in a routine. I feel very unproductive otherwise. I didn't do any of the "relaxing" stuff I said I was going to, but I did get some stuff done that absolutely needed to.
I'm pretty much in a coasting kind of mode where school's concerned. The way things are going and with my future pretty much set, I'm not going to try to plan some huge project, I'll just hitch onto the science ones and put my stamp on those. For example, the next one the kids have to do is to - in pairs - find some environmental cause on the island that needs changing and come up with a solution. I'm not explaining it very well, but it has potential.
So to do this, the kids will have to find out if any organization or group is working on the same thing. So we're going over the branches and levels of government. Then we'll be looking at all the environmental groups on the island. And I'll also be teaching a lot of kids about working with video. Not the traditional social studies stuff, but it'll keep my interest up.
I'm pretty much in a coasting kind of mode where school's concerned. The way things are going and with my future pretty much set, I'm not going to try to plan some huge project, I'll just hitch onto the science ones and put my stamp on those. For example, the next one the kids have to do is to - in pairs - find some environmental cause on the island that needs changing and come up with a solution. I'm not explaining it very well, but it has potential.
So to do this, the kids will have to find out if any organization or group is working on the same thing. So we're going over the branches and levels of government. Then we'll be looking at all the environmental groups on the island. And I'll also be teaching a lot of kids about working with video. Not the traditional social studies stuff, but it'll keep my interest up.
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