OK, it's time to try this again. I wrote a few entries back in March, but it didn't take. Still too far away from the real thing, I guess. But now it's less than a week til I start teacher education classes, and I want this blog to be a record of what goes on in my musty fusty brain--and in the real world around me, too--while I go through this process. It's been a year since I decided to go from housewife to teacher--it hit me like a ton of bricks over the 4th of July weekend--and since then, as I've jumped through all the hoops of applications, taking tests, and getting experience, I've gotten more and more antsy to JUST GET STARTED! So here we go.
Well, I hope keeping a blog will be another example of how the more you have to do, the more you get done--whereas the reverse has been the ruling principle of my life for the past couple years. For some reason, now that I'm about to be very busy, I feel like I might find time to clean the house, organize my office, work in the yard, write in a blog, etc etc. Over the last couple years, lazing around eating bonbons (and trying to keep a lid on my little wild man, who is really going to test the mettle of his kindergarten teacher next fall) has become less and less amusing to me, and I've realized I'm not at all as well suited as I thought I was to play the angel in the house. Turns out I really do want a career. Turns out I really do still want to teach. So here I am.
And now that I've gotten this little introductory piece out of the way, maybe my blogs will get more interesting. Like, for instance, today I discovered online Scrabble. Now THAT's educational!!