music: Spearhead- Chocolate Supa Highway
March 1. Another snow day. I’m already dreading that last week in June.
I decided to make the best of it and headed out to the Someday for a day of lesson planning, dabbling in some school-wide initiatives, and attempting to finally finish the book I’ve been reading since September Rolled in, parked my stuff on the green couch, put on my chinatown slippers, and set myself up with a pot of tea. Did some planning, did some writing for a school handbook, did some thinking about what to do with the kids who are probably going to fail for the year, and pounded the last 80 pages of the Krakauer book. All the while, I became aware of people around me with similar binders and textbooks filled with content far too simple for adults. I slowly realized that the Someday was filled with teachers-about 3/4 of the people in there were teachers. Teachers of all sorts working on some stuff during the snow day. We all sort of picked up on it after a while and made some small talk about the snow day phenomenon. Then I finished up as quickly as I could and got the hell out of there. Teachers are generally good people, but I spend far too much of my time with them. I need to be around regular people every now and then.
No, teachers aren’t regular people. People who willfully choose to spend their day with dozens of teenagers that aren’t theirs are not regular people.
The Someday is a great little spot to lounge and work, although it’s almost too comfortable. I kick back with my slippers and a mug of tea, put my feet up on the furniture, the music in the background…it might as well be my living room. If I really have to get stuff done I should start going to Diesel. There’s a good productive vibe there, and you can find a corner way in the back and really get down to stuff. But can someone really walk into Diesel and order a pot of herbal tea?
Posted by davidtaus at March 1, 2005 05:45 PM