Life, Teaching, and Everything in Between

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Just got the tumblr app up and running on my new phone. This is just a test

Ascent to Further Awesomeness

   Going forward this tumbler will most likely be largely (pun intended) concerned with my quest to lose weight. I have finally decided to do it in earnest. I have a plan that doesn’t feel restrictive but will be effective if i stick to it, which i will, and I have the added incentive that I’m doing this along with my girlfriend who has also embarked upon the same program. my goal is 200 lbs, there’s quite a ways to go, but I will get there.

Like Yoda said: “Do or do not, there is no try.”

CAE

“On too little money”, or,”when the system doesn’t work”

Ok, this will porbably be quite ramble-ey so stick with me.

     First, I just want to go ahead and say that loan repayment absolutely sucks. The plan was as follows: student teach, get my license, obtain a teaching position, and begin saving money for the future and paying my loans back. Much in the same way that things worked out after a graduated fro the U of M and applied to grad school, it didn’t work out that way. I’m glad the President, or whoever actually got the loan consolodation thing through. It’s amazing that it made it through seeing as the republicans, the idiots, are more than happy to block anything, no matter how much it could help us as a country, if it was the President’s, or indeed, any other Democrat’s idea.

(side note- i would be just as critical if the shoe was on the other foot and we had a republican president trying to do things to help set things right and a group of democrats that were blocking things out of spite)

     Anyway, back to the main point. The system has stopped working. The town in which I live has no work available, nowhere in driving distance has either, academic or otherwise. You go to college, you learn enough to be good at something, you graduate, you get a job in the aforementioned thing. That is how it’s supposed to work. But, at least in academic circles, it’s come to my attention that it isnt really skill that factors in to whether or not you get a job, but the connections you have, and how well you can network with and gladhand to the right people. I am not good at either one of these things. I’m respectful to anyone who deserves respect, but if you ask me for my opinion I will kick you in the face with the truth, this tendency rubs people the wrong way sometimes.

If you are reading this, you probably like that about me.

     I know when I get a teaching position that I’ll be the best teacher that school has ever had, not because I’m that awesome, but because I have a knack for adaptability, and you have to be a great teacher to make your students great. There aren’t enough great teachers anymore, several that come to mind just plain suck.

     It comes down to this, I’m frustrated because I’m in a situation where I know where I want my future to go, and I need to start saving for that, but forget keeping my head above water, I can’t even get it above water.

     I’ll try to write here more often, and complain here less often

Kicking people in the face with the truth since I could talk,

CAE

In which our hero has an interview tomorrow (part 2)

     So I have an interview tomorrow, I enjoy interviewing actually, it plays to one of my skills which is the ability to talk, hopefully I sound reasonably intelligent while doing so. I like that the place at which I will be interviewing tomorrow is within reasonable driving distance, that means that I won’t potentially have to completely uproot my life which (to continue a theme from last time I talked about this) must still be better than downrooting.

     On other things, went with my girlfriend to see the Gee 3d movie concert. To use a phrase I absolutely hate, but that seems to apply here, it was what it was. They sang, they danced, they mouthed lyrics, I was not unentertained.

Roots are supposed to go down so maybe downrooting would work after all,

CAE

In which our hero has an interview tomorrow

     I have an interview at a school tomorrow, c’mooon nepotism.

     If i get the job I’m interviewing for tomorrow, it will kind of throw my life into upheaval…which now that I think about it, has to be better than downheaval. I’ll need a vehicle, and a place to crash for a while while I can put some money together, although I really don’t anticipate that second thing being a problem. It will introduce some interesting challenges as it pertains to my relationship, and my complete lack of self-sufficiency, but maybe that’s what I need. After all, who ever accomplished anything as a result of everything working out? Outside of that guy from the A-team

death to downheaval,

CAE