You know you’ve got a good gig going on when you walk into your boss’s office, and you say that you’re going to take next week off to get enough rest to get over the various -itises (-itii?) you have, and she says that you can, and that the college will pay for your substitutes.
And then you send an SOS out to the department, and you have subs in 20 minutes, and continued emails of offers and support.
I am truly blessed in my colleagues and my work place.
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As you have gleaned from above, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I have decided to try and beat this thing by staying home. All next week. Sleeping and eating bonbons taking it easy.
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Last night while my night class was watching the first part of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, I hatcheted huge chunks of Mark Twain’s Daughter. I’m dismembering and re-assembling in hopes of making that 3rd person POV work. I have to watch out for the prose being too purple. I’d rather have a reasonable shade of maroon.
That’s pretty much the news at the moment. I’m going to get some lesson plans together, and then stumble off to the two classes I have to “teach” today.
Catherine
