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December 21, 2002
It's really nice to wake
It's really nice to wake up in the morning from a bad dream about school, suddenly realizing that I basically don't have to think about it for nearly two weeks. I plan on doing totally frivolous things like using a tanning membership, playing videogames, and reading. I'll have to schedule those things between all the drinking and carousing with friends, but somehow I'll do it.
Thursday night I went to our school's Christmas party. I wore the same thing I always wear, as a pair of jeans and a nice sweater aren't too difficult to match. I was amazed to see little teacher Phoenixes rising from the ashes, dressed to the nines, nails done, hair elaborately coifed. These are not the same people I teach with every day, I'm certain of it. Then they began to dance and I realized that they were still the same group of people.
I saw my summer principal, the woman who had hired me. She was transferred to another school when I had started in the fall, so it was good to see her. She and I were laughing about some events from the summer session when she admitted something funny. At the job fair, she and the other administrator separated away from me for quite a few minutes. I thought they were deciding whether I was too smarmy, but they were debating whether it was okay to allow an UNDERCOVER NARCOTICS AGENT into their school. They thought I was too good to be true. Awwww....
Posted by G at December 21, 2002 10:13 AM