Moving on and settling down…all at once
Story Time!Posted by beth on June 24, 2011
I’m writing this before I leave for Italy and setting it up to publish itself while I’m there. I’m going to tell it from today’s perspective, though, so when I say “yesterday,” I really mean Wednesday, June 15. I’ll only do that once, though, so don’t worry. Ok. So yesterday, I had my grammar class [...]
How Many Fridays Can One Week Have?Posted by beth on May 12, 2011
This is at least the third day this week that I’ve thought was Friday. I honestly don’t know how time could possibly pass more slowly, but in case you are so inclined, please don’t try to explain the passage of time in the metaphysical sense to me as my head would most certainly explode. It’s [...]
One. More. Week.Posted by beth on April 7, 2011
I sort of count the week over on Thursday afternoon because that’s when I finish my last afternoon class, and on Fridays, I’m finished at 1:00. Fridays are also easy because by that time, I’m pretty much finished with my part of the work. What I mean by that is that I don’t stand up [...]
Non-stop Fun?Posted by beth on February 9, 2011
I feel like I’ve packed two weeks into this week already, what with laundry and writing sub plans and making a sassy Mardi Gras running skirt and movie Tuesday and working out and this and that and the other thing. I can’t believe it’s only Wednesday, but on the other hand, I can’t believe it’s [...]
The Help: A Book Review by Beth ParentPosted by beth on January 6, 2011
I told myself several times yesterday that I would NOT stay up until all hours of the night finishing The Help. I’m trying to get back on a normal sleeping/waking schedule, see, because morning registration is tomorrow, and classes start back on Monday. But then last night, I took the book to bed with me [...]
Vacation: Day 1 – Professionalism FailPosted by beth on December 13, 2010
Well first let’s start with an update on my vacation to-do list progress. I spent the weekend with Rachel and Annabelle baking. And hooooo-boy did we bake! I think we made about 90 buck-eye balls, about the same number of pretzels with melted Rolos and pecans on top, roughly 50 Christmas wreaths, and when I [...]
halleluiathankyajesusandamenPosted by beth on December 10, 2010
Y’all. Whew. The semester is over. It’s over, and a new one doesn’t start for almost a MONTH! And in that time, I have so few plans, it’s ridiculous. And the plans I do have are as follows: Spend this weekend in VA with Rachel and Annabelle shopping and baking. Bake cupcakes. Write/edit some articles. [...]
This Is My LifePosted by beth on November 30, 2010
The students in the classroom next to mine are always learning American idioms. This makes my students jealous, I think, because I rarely teach them idioms. I used to teach them all the time. I have lots of units on idioms, some of which we use today, but many of which left the corpus of [...]
Thursday is the new Friday.Posted by beth on October 14, 2010
Soooo…what had happened was that the church where we teach our ESL classes needs to test the fire alarm system with the fire marshal there, and our choices in the matter were: (a) have super-crappy classes with the fire alarm going off the whole time and thus going outside and coming back in every ten [...]
Busy Is Good (Mostly)Posted by beth on September 22, 2010
Whew, y’all. This week has just been non-stop so far. On Monday, I taught until 1:00, and then I went immediately over to the main ESL site to prepare for and lead a training that afternoon. All of Wake Tech’s ESL sites have blogs, see, and each site has a blogger who publishes two posts [...]
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