Well, I survived my first week! This week I mostly just observed my students and worked with them in the classrooms. I did pull one of my students on Friday, mostly because what the class was doing wasn't what he'll be doing. My kids and my coworkers are all great. This weekend I'll be planning for next week. My schedule is pretty packed. I was able to fit in a plan time 3 times a week for an hour, which is better than what I thought last week. I had to meet with my service coordinator yesterday about one of my students because I didn't have enough time in the week to fit all of his minutes in. But since his IEP didn't specify a hearing impaired teacher, we were able to get him in the learning center for the time that I can't be with him. Ah special education.

In other news, I got my new couch today! Isn't it pretty? It's nice not to have to sit on the floor...granted my TV is still on the floor so now I have to look down to watch it.

The Night Before School

So tomorrow school starts! Yikes! I'm hoping that schedules work out. Right now it looks like we might have to rearrange where one of us goes. It's complicated. Basically there aren't enough minutes in the week for me to cover all my kids and drive between schools.

This past weekend was great. Chris was in town this weekend and had 2 interviews today! Yesterday we went out to Nebraska Furniture Mart and I found a couch. It's going to be delivered on Saturday. In the meantime, I put the air mattress in the living room cause I'm tired of sitting on the floor to watch TV.

I'm so nervous and excited about tomorrow. I'll post tomorrow when I get home and after I get my couch you'll get some pictures!

The Week Before Back to School

Well, I survived new teacher training! Today all the teachers came back for the all-district meeting and then we had department meetings the rest of the day. The in-services we had today were really informative and gave me an idea of how they write goals and IEPs. Luckily, they're fairly similar to how we wrote them in my classes so that's good. Different districts have different ways of writing goals so I was glad it was similar to how I'd learned. Good thing we had that today because apparently my first IEP meeting is Friday! I won't be alone of course though since I'm not certified so my mentor will be with me. Plus, we're not sure if I will be servicing this particular student so we'll all have to attend.

I have a trunk full of stuff to take to my office at school but I haven't gotten back there this week since we've had meetings till 4 the past few days and I'm pretty much done then after sitting listening to gobs of information all day. I think Thursday I'll have a workday though to get things done.

I'm really excited for Saturday because Chris is coming in town for 2 interviews on Monday! I hope he gets something soon so he can get moved. I miss him terribly along with my kitties and furniture. It'll be nice when there's a couch to sit on instead of sitting or laying on the floor to watch TV. I'm coming back to St. Louis the weekend of Aug. 28th to take care of some things, which could end up being the weekend Chris moves too. We'll see. His mom and uncle are going to fly in to help him move when he does so that will be good. That way he can drive the moving truck and his mom can drive his car to KC. I'm going to bring the cats back with me when I come whether or not he moves that weekend. They have to be out of the apartment before he does the final walkthrough. I'll be glad to have them here when I get home from work to cuddle with. Granted I won't be glad to have the allergies back but I'll deal. I have for the past year anyway. Plus when my health insurance kicks in, I'll be able to get my Allegra-D again, which will help a lot.

Okay, I think I've rambled enough now. Can you tell I'm bored?

First Day of Meetings

Today was my first meeting, which was my benefits meeting. When I got there I looked over in the car next to me and a friend from college was pulling up too! It turns out he's starting out as a choral director at one of the high schools. So it was nice chatting with him.

I've been really tired lately and having a lot of headaches. I think it's cause I haven't been taking my meds since I've been out and had no money to get more. I went ahead and ordered some so I guess I'll just have to put it on my credit card. I can't be tired like this all the time. I took a nap after my meeting and it helped for a little bit but now my headache is back.

Tomorrow I have my laptop meeting and I'll get my work laptop. Then I can sign up for insurance since Safari isn't supported by the website they use. No big deal.

That's all for now. I'm out.

Well, almost all of my stuff is moved in...granted that mostly consists of books and very little furniture. I haven't taken any pictures yet, but it's a bit messy and there's really not much different from the pictures I posted the weekend we signed the lease except for the boxes. And frankly, I've just been too lazy to take any. I tend to get really lazy when I'm lonely I guess.

I met one of my new neighbors today. I was in the office unpacking when I thought I heard someone at the door, but when I looked, there was no one there but I noticed that the door across the hall was open so I assumed that it was them I heard at their door. A few minutes later, I decided to run out to my car to grab some things I forgot and when I came back I saw there was an envelope taped to my door. There was a card from the neighbors across the hall welcoming me to the building and saying to let them know if I needed anything. So I thought I'd go over to thank them and introduce myself. Then when I went outside to do that, I looked down and saw a nice little welcome mat at the door. So I went over there and met my neighbor John, who lives there with his daughter. He was really nice and welcoming, letting me know that if there's ever a storm, he invites everyone down into the hallway of his garage if we need to seek shelter. So I thought that was nice. It's nice to feel welcomed by your neighbors instead of just moving in and never talking to anyone.

Then around 2:30 I got a call from the cable guy asking if I minded if he came early to set up my cable, which was awesome, since it's been kinda boring here without it. I need to figure out what friends actually still live in KC to hang out with. Patrick helped out with moving and was a huge help to my dad and me. Haven't seen Missy yet since she had a long work weekend, but hopefully we'll be able to get together this week when neither of us are working.

Well, that's all I can think of right now. I need to go to Best Buy at some point and get a new router since this one doesn't seem to want to work anymore. It's been kinda touchy for a while and half the time Chris's computer won't even pick it up so maybe it's time for a new one. We had the same one at my mom's and I just replaced it cause it wasn't working right with her iPod and apparently LinkSys doesn't support it anymore. It's not too big of a deal to hardwire to the modem right now, but once Chris gets here we'll need wireless.