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The Secrets We Never Know

2 comments | Sunday, September 24, 2006

You know how when you grow up, you discover that there are secrets adults never tell you? You know like how the bathtub doesn't actually clean itself and cars don't magically keep running? The adult world isn't nearly as cool as it looks? Or, my favorite, romance in real life is NOTHING like the movies? Well, I had another discovery along those lines.

What could it be, you ask?

It's two things really. One, I never get off work early, and I haven't posted since August because I simply haven't had the time, energy, or motivation to participate in even one extra activity in my life.

No one and I mean NO ONE ever told me that once you start teaching, you can't get it out of your head. My student test scores and their crazy questions and their lapses of good behavior all circle in my head like vultures waiting to pick apart my quickly atrophying brain. Honestly, I feel like one of those moms, old or new, that just can't stop talking about her perfect children all day long.

I have a feeling Josh will kill me for this soon...

SOOOO, if you know how to make it stop, PLEASE let me in on your secret!

Oh, and if you know how to get 9th graders to study for a test so they don't fail miserably, I could use a little help there as well.

posted by Amber

at 5:53 PM Permalink

2 Comments:

Blogger Josh M said...

what is this "romance is nothing like the movies" all about?

some girls don't know how good they have it...

September 24, 2006 6:55 PM

 
Blogger Amber said...

I didn't mean you, goofball. I just meant in general -- you know, it's never the first person that comes along and it's not all mushy and crap all the time, which is good, but no one ever tells you that.

anyway, you're the bestest - it says so on my profile. :)

September 24, 2006 7:07 PM

 

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