A goal that I had for this summer was to get a blog going and every time I started, I had a serious case of writer’s block and ended up watching reruns of Grey’s Anatomy. I’ve been stalking multiple blogs for months now. I wish I could use the word stalking lightly, but unfortunately I can’t. I read them until 2 am when I can’t fall asleep. Since I am now no longer in “work mode”…meaning I can’t fall asleep at a normal time and I wake up at an unreasonable hour (part of this can be blamed for me discovering Orange is the new black on Netflix at the beginning of summer). I’ve become a creeper as my students would call it as I go from one blog to the other and read posts from months ago.. I’m envious of these creative bloggers, and while I’m sure it will be a big learning process, I’m extremely excited to try it.
This is my first summer without anything on my plate. It will also be my last summer with nothing scheduled. I am probably the 1% of teachers who does not enjoy having a whole summer of no job or no class. I think the problem is that I am also the small percentage of teachers who is not married, who does not have kids and whose best friends that live close by are not teachers. Lesson learned, retail world I will be out and about next year to keep myself occupied! So for my first blog post here are 5 things they don’t tell you about summers off.
1) You run into your former students at the most awkward places (Victoria Secret is frankly somewhere you just can’t make small talk with them at)
2) Your bank account is screaming at you to get back to work (Seriously all this time off just means more time at the mall for me to rummage through those sale racks and Jcrew sales associates are probably wondering why I don’t have a life and it doesn't help that they have been having crazy good sales.
I got these today for $29. Can't beat that deal.
3) You realize that your in a different place than your closest friends (This is hard for me, most of my teacher friends from college don’t live close by, and the ones from work are in a different place in life than me. Most of my friends happen to have different careers so when I’m bugging them to do something with me, they are frantically trying to meet deadlines or catch business flights)
4) Pinterest becomes your best friend and worst enemy. ( I have done enough furniture redos and crafts that I think I’ve hit my yearly quota… plus I don’t know if anyone else thinks this but it takes a lot of cash to craft, and when it doesn’t turn out like the picture it is a total pinterest fail and the craft winds up in the back of the closet for months …or trash)
5) Everyday becomes a Friday. (I have no idea what day of the week it is… Monday’s become Wednesday’s and Sunday is no longer the rush around and get my crap together day)
Sincerely,
-J
