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Beware, There Are Sharks In These Waters.

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 25 August 2009

It’s a Tuesday, and I’ve survived my first round of classes.
I talked at them, made jokes at which they sometimes laughed, assigned them their first tasks of the semester.
I haven’t made a plan for tomorrow, I’m still drained from yesterday.
Overall it was a success. Now to just keep that going.
And at the same time I [...]

Help I’m Alive My Heart Is Beating Like a Hammer

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 19 August 2009

I spent my day listening to interesting ruminations and exclamations on the direction of our department.
It was a very exciting experience… for those valid members of our department who are full time and who are actually considered as mandatory to our growth and development in the many directions our Director would like to go.
Adjuncts, however, [...]

>.<

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 14 July 2009

The first reply to my eloquently worded, professional yet friendly request for writing jobs was this:
“i could help u with your bills let me know if uneed help”
*Facepalm*
This does not bode well for Homestar Runner.

Academic Whoring, Right Here.

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 13 July 2009

This grading job has cut my hours this week by two days and next week by… well, the entire fucking week.
Hello poverty, meet me. We’ve been flirting across the room all summer now, but it’s just about time we’re properly introduced.
Now I am trying to think of a way, any way really, that I could [...]

Grah.

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 28 June 2009

The world is against me today…
It cheered me up with the news of 2 more lbs lost, meaning I’m under a benchmark weight that I haven’t been in over a year…
But we aren’t going to make rent this month without begging more money from parents, and Firefox decided to eat all my bookmarks and force [...]

I’m Sure This Will Be Funny Someday.

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 26 June 2009

Hey! It’s Friday, and I’m not working. So what can I do with myself, you ask?
Well, I thought I’d swim. Then I thought I’d work a bit on setting myself up with the courses I need to take this semester as I teach.
Cool idea, you say? Why, I thought so as well!
I sat down to [...]

QQ

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 13 May 2009

Didn’t get the middle school position, found out in a letter that came to our house yesterday and that James read to me over the phone.
That’s a real downer, I’ve got to tell you.
I shouldn’t take it as hard as I am… *sigh*

fucking fail. or win. not sure which.

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 7 May 2009

no news on the job front.
neither summer job nor fall/spring job.
i feel frozen in time.
grades are due monday, i just need to grade final papers and i’m done. they’re sitting right next to me but i can’t bring myself to pick them up.
i’ve been helping a friend from my guild on WoW with a paper [...]

Rumors Do Me No Good.

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 4 May 2009

Not in the mood to update anything, my life feels so stagnant. Bullet points it is.

Not a single word on the middle school position. I did everything I needed to for them, updated all my information online… now we play the waiting game. I even sent them a hand-written thank you card today as a [...]

Update: Academic Limbo

Posted by: Professor Anonymous on: 28 April 2009

Interview is over.
Went well, I think? Not sure. It felt like yet another basic step interview like I had already done at each of the Teacher Fairs I have attended. They didn’t have any info from the online application process so they basically had no clue who I was or what I would be saying… [...]


thought of the moment:

No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick.

time flies.

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