But they can't write you and me

This week has been a killer. My school had finals this week, and unlike some high schools, LF has school-wide mandatory finals, and teachers all have to proctor other teachers' tests, etc. The English final is a department-standard essay final, and we grade them sort of like AP exams. Teachers do not grade their own students' exams, and each exam must be read twice, etc. So in other words, I have been staring at hand-written timed essays for the last 3 days. But we finished the finals, and now I just have to do all of my own grading. This is the part of being an English teacher that I did not miss, but I guess it comes with the job.

So we have a teacher workday tomorrow, and then a three-day weekend, which is always a bonus. But I will be spending most of the weekend planning for second semester. I have one new class that I am pretty excited about, since it is Film Criticism class. So I get to put my master's degree to work, and I have a lot of flexibility with what I teach. This will be fun, I think.

The first semester at my new job flew by. I have a hard time believing that the year is half over, but I am relatively certain that the calendar does not lie.


But enough of this life seriousness. A current favorite song is "Backed Out on The . . . " by Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew:



The video was an impromptu deal with Kevin and his friends. I find it most entertaining.