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General Insanity
In no particular order, over the past four months I have: been working with students who are trying to get into college (I’ll talk about why that is important in a bit), visited Fall River, started a new teaching job, gone on a few dates (one of which was particularly amazing), been visited by my aunt, uncle, and my first cousin from my dad’s side of the family, my cousins and great aunt on my dad’s side, and my first cousin from my mom’s side of the family, sprained my ankle and knee, spent time on the Santa Monica Pier, helped a friend plan her wedding, found out what my…
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Guerrilla Writing
So, someone asked me the other day about my productivity level. Then they said, “Well, you’re young, that helps.” I half-jokingly responded with, “No, I have insomnia, that helps.” They laughed. I laughed. We laughed. Laughter is good. But I thought I would take a minute to actually write out how I go about my life for people. The first thing to know is that only two things will get me up in the morning: teaching (happily) and emergencies (not-so-happily). Therefore, my schedule is a little weird to most people. I’ll write out an average day with not teaching and one with teaching. Average Day Without Teaching: Get up @…
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Hi, my name is Christina and I am a workaholic
So, according to a friend I’ve had for 25 years I’m the most workaholic person he knows. Now, for those of you who know me personally, this is no surprise. I spend the vast majority of my time doing something for my students whether it’s running dance groups, working for the theatre company, taking pictures of the kids, or lesson planning/grading/writing tests. According to my mother being such a workaholic is bad for me and I need to have more of a social life than I do. I tell her I go out with the girls every couple of weeks either down here or in Boston. It’s not like I…