Well here I am staring down the start of a new year. I am a bit intimidated by it all. In just under 10 days, Andy will be gone for the duration of the year. That means I am stuck with handling everything with the new house, taxes, my job, the cars, shoot everything. One would think that I managed pretty darn well on my own while in graduate school. This should be a snap. Somehow, being out in Kansas, over 700 miles away from any sort of relations, seems so much more difficult.
I plan on sending lots of packages and hoping that family and relatives will send some too. I am excited to use Google's talk feature - hurray for video-conferencing. For right now, I know that most of his battle will be against the dreaded paperwork, but still I am frightened.
As for my expectations for myself for this year, the big one is to try not to be too much of a workaholic, get my exercise on, do some more knitting, and possibly try some new recipes (although with only 1 person in the house not sure how often that will be). I would like to explore more of Kansas as well but I would need to do all the driving myself :oP. Lastly, I hope that we can manage to sock away some money this year - I don't need much in way of food and shouldn't be doing too much shopping, although every now and again I get the urge.
That is about it. Not totally gung-ho about the new year but now super depressed either.
Fancy That...
I have yet again managed to forget entirely about my blog. Needless to say, I have been busy teaching. More worrying than teaching on most days.
I hope since I have gotten into a rhythm with school, that maybe just maybe I can manage my time a bit more judiciously. Also, I would like to keep a better record of my memories for the upcoming year. Andy is deploying again with the 1 ID Division Headquarters - so I will be by myself for well...I suppose a year. We will see how things play out.
I suppose the big update is that I only have two more classes left in the alternate route program - internship, and a survey on the "exceptional" child. For the internship this semester, I need to write up my Teacher Work Sample by April. Primarily, it is 25 pages (more pages than I think is necessary) of information about the school, the community, and my unit of teaching. I tried to play it smart and collect all of the data from a unit on triangles that took about 3 - 4 weeks. My problem is that it needs to get typed up and handed in during the middle of the school year. Why not ask for it to be completed during the summer semesters - when I do not have to spend a good majority of my time grading and creating lesson plans? Poo.
I also managed to get the Praxis PLT exam out of the way. Surprisingly enough, I came up with 12 essays in about 2 hours time. Trust me that is difficult seeing as I really could care less about any of the writing assignments I have to do for my classes. It also didn't help that I only spent 1 summer on the topics covered - compared to all the college students in the room who had 4 years of education classes under their belts. Score one for the home team.
I am somewhat sad now - our Christmas guests have left. It was fantastic to have everyone out for the holiday. I only wish that we had asked everyone to stay longer. We now have a quiet empty house and it doesn't really help my being productive for school. I have a couple of presentations to write and I would like to get about a week ahead on my lessons. Lots of fun I am sure.
Anyway - I plan to post my New Year's Resolutions tomorrow. I have a few I hope to keep. But I am going to spend one more day relaxing and then going out for a fancy dinner tonight at Harry's. Probably our last big date night out before the deployment. It should have been New Year's Eve reservations but we were late in calling. But tonight works fantastically.
I hope since I have gotten into a rhythm with school, that maybe just maybe I can manage my time a bit more judiciously. Also, I would like to keep a better record of my memories for the upcoming year. Andy is deploying again with the 1 ID Division Headquarters - so I will be by myself for well...I suppose a year. We will see how things play out.
I suppose the big update is that I only have two more classes left in the alternate route program - internship, and a survey on the "exceptional" child. For the internship this semester, I need to write up my Teacher Work Sample by April. Primarily, it is 25 pages (more pages than I think is necessary) of information about the school, the community, and my unit of teaching. I tried to play it smart and collect all of the data from a unit on triangles that took about 3 - 4 weeks. My problem is that it needs to get typed up and handed in during the middle of the school year. Why not ask for it to be completed during the summer semesters - when I do not have to spend a good majority of my time grading and creating lesson plans? Poo.
I also managed to get the Praxis PLT exam out of the way. Surprisingly enough, I came up with 12 essays in about 2 hours time. Trust me that is difficult seeing as I really could care less about any of the writing assignments I have to do for my classes. It also didn't help that I only spent 1 summer on the topics covered - compared to all the college students in the room who had 4 years of education classes under their belts. Score one for the home team.
I am somewhat sad now - our Christmas guests have left. It was fantastic to have everyone out for the holiday. I only wish that we had asked everyone to stay longer. We now have a quiet empty house and it doesn't really help my being productive for school. I have a couple of presentations to write and I would like to get about a week ahead on my lessons. Lots of fun I am sure.
Anyway - I plan to post my New Year's Resolutions tomorrow. I have a few I hope to keep. But I am going to spend one more day relaxing and then going out for a fancy dinner tonight at Harry's. Probably our last big date night out before the deployment. It should have been New Year's Eve reservations but we were late in calling. But tonight works fantastically.
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