Sunday, February 5, 2012

title pic Lost…Lost…Lost…I’ve Lost My Marbles

Posted by beth on November 17, 2011

Y’all, seriously. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I put things down, and they disappear. I can’t find my mailbox key, I keep forgetting to buy more almond milk, I have no idea what I was going to write about here just now, and I feel fairly certain I was supposed to do something. [...]

title pic Procrastination: A Tutorial

Posted by beth on October 29, 2011

I’m supposed to be finishing my lesson plans for next week right now. Technically, I was supposed to do them yesterday, but since I’m the one who set that schedule, I was also able to issue an executive order to obsessively look at Pinterest and watch Psych instead. That’s lesson number one, friends. If you [...]

title pic A Few Unrelated Things

Posted by beth on October 20, 2011

1. I’m totally addicted to Pinterest. I love it, and I want to spend more time browsing the internet looking for things to pin, but I just don’t have that much time to waste. I think it’s probably for the best. 2. I’m in the middle of the second Bible test, and so far, I [...]

title pic What I’ve Really Been Doing

Posted by beth on October 13, 2011

Ok so now that everybody pretty much knows, I guess I can talk about it. I might be moving to Europe. It’s weird to type it out into the world like that. So far, it’s just been discussed privately among a few close, trusted friends and people I knew would understand and be excited with [...]

title pic I’m Psychic: Brazilian Monkey Edition

Posted by beth on October 3, 2011

It’s amazing how many little kid games I have my students play in class. We play board games, Memory, Cootie Catcher, but my favorite is Telephone. It’s perfect because it incorporates listening and pronunciation skills, and today, I made it use writing skills too. Because I’m the jam. We were working today on quoted speech. [...]

title pic And the Bad Blogger Award Goes to…

Posted by beth on September 10, 2011

I mean dag, y’all. I suck at this. I’m sorry. Here’s what’s been happening. I’ve been working. We’ve been in class for three weeks now, and my students are fabulous. As always, I love them to pieces. I’ve been having about 15 every day, and yesterday, at our 2nd registration (out of 3), I got [...]

title pic Stop. Music Time

Posted by beth on August 25, 2011

Well, I’ve gotten a little distracted. I was looking for songs, see, to use in class. I wanted songs that told stories, so I typed it into the Google, and away we went. But then, at the bottom of one article about story songs, there was a link to the Top 25 Guilty Pleasure Songs, [...]

title pic The Teacher Becomes the Student

Posted by beth on August 20, 2011

Oh y’all, this semester is going to be FUN! First of all, I’m going to be teaching a new class (that I’ll be inventing as I go) on phrasal verbs, idioms and slang. Now, for those of you who are not total grammar nerds, a phrasal verb is a verb composed of two or more [...]

title pic Making Progress

Posted by beth on August 4, 2011

With the move all finished and the semester over, I now have a couple of weeks to relax, unpack, get organized, get things like internet set up, and prepare for next semester to start. I am proud to report that I’m making progress on all fronts. Time Warner is coming next weekend to flip our [...]

title pic True Confessions

Posted by beth on July 4, 2011

True Confession #1 When I think about planning lessons, my whole brain shuts down, and I have to convince myself that it’s a necessary thing to do. Then I have to think about how long it will take me and what else I have to do that day, and if there’s any time at all [...]