lamimistress.

[parasitegirl]

I haven't written much about my new job because there isn't much to write. It's not that it isn't occasionally eventful, but men in suits and sweater vests are not as good blog fodder as hyperactive children.

I hear that next week I might actually start teaching. Until then I have a huge pile of lesson plans to update and expand...but on the days I plow through them my co-workers get worried and tell me to slow down and relax so that I don't burn out...those plans to update will still be around when things slow down in the summer...

I still have no clue how the 15-school thing is going to work. Until I've done it a while I won't know if I should move or not.

Monday I created and printed out more than 20 images for teaching aids for two lesson plans I've written. and then spellchecked last year's plans and started revising them to my communication-skills-focused style.

With the visual aides I searched for the laminator only to be told...no laminator. No laminator?!  My relationship with the laminator at Elementary School 1 was deep, and lasted longer than most of my relationships. I was the lamisstress!

"I can't teach this lesson plan to 15 schools without a laminator, the teaching aids will fall apart!"
"The schools all have laminators..."
"So, my first day I demand to have laminator time and sit down to an hour of laminating?"
"Yes"

I am so glad that absconded with a few sheets of adhesive backed magnets, and have figured out where the scanner that works is.

I know that I will never have a desk computer of my own or be allowed on the government network here. The red tape it binds! I bring my new Mac everyday.
I think I should justify finding a nice, stylish, Mac-friendly tote. At work I  perform a complicated dance of memory stick and other computers to process and polish my lessons and teaching aides.. I can't get online, there are no wireless networks around here, so as a result my Mac has never been so organized.

I have a clean inbox.  It currently has only 4 messages in it. I have caught up with people whose mails have been buried for YEARS.  I reply and move anything I don't delete to the appropriate mailbox. Sure, my replies sit around all day before I can send them, but that sure beats my 2 year response time.

Of course this can't last...it never does. Look at how the laminator left me.

My apartment declutter crusade continues. Last night I had one of those moments where I finally thought that I could see, instead of just feel, the results of my freecycle-sell-toss-debate sprees. This might be short lived.

Comments

[tyoshida.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about getting a DataCard from Softbank? One of people who hung out at the Otakon booth at TAF had one and it was pretty nice. I figure it would be an additional $50 ~ $100/month depending on usage, but you'd have a connection anywhere. (And with speeds up to 3.6Mbps downlink and 384Kbps uplink, it's faster than the DSL I'm forced to share at present...)

[parasitegirl.livejournal.com]

I think it would not be great for my productivity and the price would ad up. Much will depend on my actual teaching schedule