Sunday, November 05, 2006
is anyone as excited as i am about this good ol' fashion hanging as I am?
last week was shitty until friday. I was exhausted all week, which makes for a teacher with a short temper. not a good thing. on wednesday i said fuck it and skipped correcting papers to actually get some sleep. i was still exhausted on thursday, so went to bed early on thursday as well. this worked. i was awake and happy and the students picked up on it. 6th period still sucked balls, but the rest of the day was good. and then we had a student-faculty kickball game. we kicked ass as usual.
today i have a shitload of grading to do as a result of all of this. oh, that and not doing anything productive yasterday. though i did go to a lego robotics workshop with students which is always fun. though i was a little hung over which made it difficult to really be a great teacher. who knew!?!
in other nes in my life i have been convinced to join village voice personals for the intarweb dating. im still not sure about this whole thing, but we'll see. i met someone yesterday and it was ok. just ok. the problem is that i don't really have any other way to meet people now that i am out of school and working with 12-year olds. and i work about 14 hours a day.
which brings me to my daily schedule. depending on how much work i have to do i will wake up between 4:00 am and 5:30 am. 5:30 if i have no work to do. usually i do have work. i leave my apt between 6:00 and 6:30. get to school between 7:00 and 7:30. Im at school until at least 5:00 usually 5:30 often 6:00. I've levt work before 5:00 about four times. so I am at work for about 10 hours. then i go home, which takes about an hour. when i get home its between 6 and 7. i eat then i grade or make worksheets or lesson plans and then i pass out. lather rinse repeat. it really is rediculous. and when you are exhausted as i was last week it can be unfun. but then you have a friday that makes it all worth it. in fourth period i asked for the formula for density. all but three students raised thier hands. it was unbelievable. i usually get three or four hands in the air. i couldn't choose a student, so i asked the students to say it together. i didn't even cue them, they all chorused "mass over volume." i then put on an act of being overwhelmed by thier awesomeness. i was overwhelemed, so it wasnt entirely an act. this is by far my most fun class. when we were learning about mass i was going over the units and abbreviaitons for said units. so i was like the units are grams. and i wriote 'units' on the board. then i asked them to take a wild guess what the abbreviaiton is. "g". i wrote that on the board under 'units' and it hit me "g-unit". so as i turned around i started saying the "g-g-g-g-g-g-g-unit" thing. they went crazy. then later i was having htem repeat "weight is not mass, mass is not weight" and they started to rap it. one kid was making a beat and everyone was chanting. so i chimed in with "g-g-g-g--g-g-g-g-g-unit." they loved it. i cannot do these things with 6th period. most days i get through a third to a half of my lesson because they just cannot stop talking. if you make them laugh they take it and go on their own five-minute riff. its silly. they just dont get it.
more quotes from my new 'hood.
as i walked into the subway near my apt:
"there are a lot of white people walking around here like they belong, and i don't like it." yay!!!
this was to matt in the elevator: "how you like living here?" oh i love it. "well, be careful, its not a racial thing. people here just don't have respect. i mean the people your age. its not htat they don't respect white people, they just don't have respect for anyone. they don't respect me, they ain't gonna respect you."
while waiting with a coqworker at the elevator in my building with about 30 people who live in my building. very impatient people i might add. "now that y'all are here, why don't you complain. i complain, they don't care. maybe they'd listen to y'all. pssh, cleam up the lobby, make it look all good. y'all got signed underfalse pretenses, this palce is crawlin' with rats. they be rats all over your face." young girl: "wait till the winter, ooh." in case its not clear myself and my friend were the only two white people in this group of 30. i think, and i have no idea about this, that these people don't keep a clean house. we haven't had a single rat problem so far. and based on the way the people in the building treat the elevators (you will often find trash in the elevators!!!) and the sidewalk (saturday morning on my street is covered with empty newport boxes and other trash). as he said "no respect for anyone."
that being said there are many more really nice, friendly people who wait patiently for the elevator and have no problem saying hello to the white boys in the elevator.
race is funny. and silly. who ever invented race should be lynched. like saddam. maybe it was him. two birds, one stone.
last week was shitty until friday. I was exhausted all week, which makes for a teacher with a short temper. not a good thing. on wednesday i said fuck it and skipped correcting papers to actually get some sleep. i was still exhausted on thursday, so went to bed early on thursday as well. this worked. i was awake and happy and the students picked up on it. 6th period still sucked balls, but the rest of the day was good. and then we had a student-faculty kickball game. we kicked ass as usual.
today i have a shitload of grading to do as a result of all of this. oh, that and not doing anything productive yasterday. though i did go to a lego robotics workshop with students which is always fun. though i was a little hung over which made it difficult to really be a great teacher. who knew!?!
in other nes in my life i have been convinced to join village voice personals for the intarweb dating. im still not sure about this whole thing, but we'll see. i met someone yesterday and it was ok. just ok. the problem is that i don't really have any other way to meet people now that i am out of school and working with 12-year olds. and i work about 14 hours a day.
which brings me to my daily schedule. depending on how much work i have to do i will wake up between 4:00 am and 5:30 am. 5:30 if i have no work to do. usually i do have work. i leave my apt between 6:00 and 6:30. get to school between 7:00 and 7:30. Im at school until at least 5:00 usually 5:30 often 6:00. I've levt work before 5:00 about four times. so I am at work for about 10 hours. then i go home, which takes about an hour. when i get home its between 6 and 7. i eat then i grade or make worksheets or lesson plans and then i pass out. lather rinse repeat. it really is rediculous. and when you are exhausted as i was last week it can be unfun. but then you have a friday that makes it all worth it. in fourth period i asked for the formula for density. all but three students raised thier hands. it was unbelievable. i usually get three or four hands in the air. i couldn't choose a student, so i asked the students to say it together. i didn't even cue them, they all chorused "mass over volume." i then put on an act of being overwhelmed by thier awesomeness. i was overwhelemed, so it wasnt entirely an act. this is by far my most fun class. when we were learning about mass i was going over the units and abbreviaitons for said units. so i was like the units are grams. and i wriote 'units' on the board. then i asked them to take a wild guess what the abbreviaiton is. "g". i wrote that on the board under 'units' and it hit me "g-unit". so as i turned around i started saying the "g-g-g-g-g-g-g-unit" thing. they went crazy. then later i was having htem repeat "weight is not mass, mass is not weight" and they started to rap it. one kid was making a beat and everyone was chanting. so i chimed in with "g-g-g-g--g-g-g-g-g-unit." they loved it. i cannot do these things with 6th period. most days i get through a third to a half of my lesson because they just cannot stop talking. if you make them laugh they take it and go on their own five-minute riff. its silly. they just dont get it.
more quotes from my new 'hood.
as i walked into the subway near my apt:
"there are a lot of white people walking around here like they belong, and i don't like it." yay!!!
this was to matt in the elevator: "how you like living here?" oh i love it. "well, be careful, its not a racial thing. people here just don't have respect. i mean the people your age. its not htat they don't respect white people, they just don't have respect for anyone. they don't respect me, they ain't gonna respect you."
while waiting with a coqworker at the elevator in my building with about 30 people who live in my building. very impatient people i might add. "now that y'all are here, why don't you complain. i complain, they don't care. maybe they'd listen to y'all. pssh, cleam up the lobby, make it look all good. y'all got signed underfalse pretenses, this palce is crawlin' with rats. they be rats all over your face." young girl: "wait till the winter, ooh." in case its not clear myself and my friend were the only two white people in this group of 30. i think, and i have no idea about this, that these people don't keep a clean house. we haven't had a single rat problem so far. and based on the way the people in the building treat the elevators (you will often find trash in the elevators!!!) and the sidewalk (saturday morning on my street is covered with empty newport boxes and other trash). as he said "no respect for anyone."
that being said there are many more really nice, friendly people who wait patiently for the elevator and have no problem saying hello to the white boys in the elevator.
race is funny. and silly. who ever invented race should be lynched. like saddam. maybe it was him. two birds, one stone.
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