Wow, what a day!
I started my morning out with a half day at the alternative school. It was fine. There’s not a whole lot to say about that… the kids were crazy, as alternative school kids are apt to be, but it was fine. I had one girl who was pregnant and one boy with [...]
I got a call this morning at around 6:30 asking me to sub in one of the elementary schools. I accepted the job, but not five minutes later I got another call from the substitute gal telling me that the job had been accepted by someone else just before she got to it, so I [...]
I’m stepping out into content writing… you know, those silly little blocks of text that you see around the internet. For me, that meant putting an ad on Craigslist a few days ago.
I got one response from it- a woman associated with internetbrands.com and several related websites. She asked me if I would be interested [...]
So I’ve been pondering my book lately.
I have this story in my head for a book. Putting it down on paper, though, has taken a backseat to everything else in my life- websites, teaching, paying the bills, that kind of thing.
I think I’ve come to a point, though, where I might be able to work [...]
Not much going on today. Yesterday I subbed at both a high school and a middle school. In the morning, I subbed for a sped teacher at one of the high schools… it was an okay job, but I don’t know if I want to do that again. I had a 45 minute break before [...]
Wow. The past couple of days have been CRAZY busy subbing!
Yesterday I was at one of the middle schools. Not a bad day… sixth grade social studies. Most of the classes were pretty good… emphasis on “most”!
Today I was at one of the high schools. This was a FANTASTIC day… advanced high school English classes, [...]
Obviously I have a blog.
Perhaps less obviously, I am a writer. I’m working on a writing a book which (I hope!) will be published. My perpetual problem – at least, one of them – is that I am a very dysfunctional writer with a short attention span. I start one book, get distracted, and start [...]
I had to go to Office Max the other day to buy another year’s worth of writing utensils. I always stock up on pens and pencils during this “back to school” time, when they are incredibly cheap. I love the Bic stick pens. They write the first time every time, and I can usually get [...]
I was thinking yesterday about what a great exercise it would be to write stories from titles… take some random words, put them together, and write a story to fit the title. Like… “Faster, Better Stronger”.. of “Stolen Innocence”… or “Surefire Saint“.
See, I used to be a high school English teacher. I quit because I [...]
Lots of hard work and hard research done… yet I have not been able to discover answers to my questions regarding personality rights of the deceased, nor have I been able to find any living relatives of the people I’m interested in writing about. Grrr.
Tomorrow morning I’ll pick up the search again. I have a [...]