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October 10, 2002
Due to a phone conversation
Due to a phone conversation earlier this week, I flashed back to last year, when I drove my wonderful convertible all the way to NYC for my interview with NYC Teaching Fellows. I think it was one of my favorite car trips. The weather was just perfect, and I spent a huge chunk of the trip with the stereo cranked and the top down. It was my first real autumn in a very long time, as the last few years of my life have been spent in treeless areas.
I'm looking back at those interviews with a bit of bemusement and sheepishness. You would figure that after Peace Corps, the altruism would have been burned out of me. When I discovered today that my darling seventh graders had stolen yet another pencil sharpener from me, my thoughts were not exactly the most positive. When the staplers, sharpeners, and mechanical pencils keep getting stolen, it is more than 'nickel and diming.' It is more like 'threeing and fiving'. I don't want to become one of those bitter teachers, but I can definitely see where they are coming from.
Posted by G at October 10, 2002 07:28 PM