The blog of Luther M. Siler, teacher, author and local curmudgeon
I have determined that in any given World Cup match I will cheer for the team whose host country has visited my blog more times. So far I am 1-0, as Brazil has produced 162 hits vs. Croatia’s puny 26.
If you are in one of these countries feel free to stuff the ballot box. 🙂
Also, are vuvuzelas about to become a thing again?
Been on summer break for half an hour. Set up an interview on the 23rd. Need to buy a suit.
Ten thousand things I could be doing; I’m watching Frozen.
Content.
I’m, like, fifty followers away from the big 3K. REPOST ABUNDANTLY.
I received a thank you note today– from a parent of one of my students, mind you– that started with the sentence “Thank you for being a cynical, sarcastic, grumpy asshole.” And, like, it meant thank you, and not weird reverse-psychology I’m using thank you to mean I hate you nonsense.
What can I say; some of them get me.
Today was Field Day; it went just fine, as these things tend to do, except it had rather less Field than I might have liked due to torrential rains at the beginning of the day (when all of the outdoor stuff would have been set up) and at the end of the day as well. In between, though, it was beautiful outside. Unlike last year, as you’ve seen in the post below this one, I managed to remember to get a picture of the last bus as it pulled away from the building. So, yay: achievement unlocked. I also found out today that there’s at least one other school wanting a phone interview. And another actual interview Friday. So double-yay.
Goals for this summer:
I still technically have one more day at work; the teacher record day is tomorrow, but literally everything is done and if I wanted to I could check out of the building five minutes after walking into it tomorrow. I’m not going to, but I could.
For right now, though? Bed. Early. I didn’t sleep well at all last night– not, like, end-of-year related, I just couldn’t sleep– but I intend to make up for it tonight.
(Random late addition: the lack of an apostrophe in the title of this YouTube video is annoying me enough that I may actually change the video. Something is wrong with me.)
Last bus of the year. I am at a bar.
I just spent an hour or so in a word sprint with four other WordPress folks– Winter Bayne, Sourcerer, E.B. Thompson, and Darla Denton— on Twitter. Basically we were giving ourselves fifteen minutes to write and then comparing word counts and yapping at each other in between rounds. I got about 1700 words farther into the new novel in 45 minutes of actual writing time, which is awesome.
Anyway, I just wanted to say “thank you” to everybody involved and say that I can’t wait to do it again. Maybe not on a weekday night next time, though. 🙂
Almost titled this post “Friday brain dump,” which should show you where my head is right now. I have no idea whether anything in this post is going to be interesting to anyone who isn’t me but I need it out of my brain, so… yeah. Make yourself enjoy it.
I have… news? On the job front? I inquired about a position this afternoon and received a “let’s set up an interview as soon as possible” response within ten minutes, which seems pretty positive. I know the principal already and got along with him quite well, so it’s entirely possible that in his head this may be done and dusted already, but who knows.
I’m ambivalent about the job itself, though. I must get out of my building next year; that’s simply not optional. I would really really like to get out of my district, and a lot of the problems that I have with my current building are going to still going to be problems with the new school. And at the moment landing a position at this building would not cause me to stop looking in other districts. Which feels more than a little dishonest to me. Unfortunately, I’m not certain I actually care.
No word from District Four. I felt like I didn’t do well on the phone interview, but I also felt like the phone interview was kinda bullshit. I’ve talked with one other person who has interviewed with them and he felt the same way. That said, I know they did more than one phone interview and I also know that those interviews have to be shared with multiple other people before second calls go out– and since my interview alone was probably half an hour or forty minutes long, I suspect that I probably ought not to panic about the fact that I haven’t gotten a call back in a week. It’s a busy time of year, y’know? And it ain’t like there’s a lot of time pressure there for a job that doesn’t even start until August. So… we’ll see. I’ve got several generic “if you end up with openings” types of letters out and at least two applications for specific jobs that I haven’t heard back on. So, we’ll see what happens. I’m trying not to stress out about it, as I’ve probably said before; I would be really surprised if I knew anything at all before August. But, again, we’ll see.
Tomorrow’s field day. It’ll be inside because it’s supposed to rain for pretty much the entire day. But still field day. And then my twelfth and quite possibly toughest year of teaching is finished.
Bring it, goddammit.
Mirë, shikoni, Kosovën, ne kemi marrë një fillim të keq. Ju nuk më do si unë dua. Kjo është në rregull. Por kam marrë trafiku nga Tanzania sot. Tanzania! Ju jeni në Evropë! Unë nuk e kuptoj se si funksionon bota, ku kam marrë trafiku nga Tanzania para se të merrni të trafikut nga Kosova, e cila aq sa unë kam qenë ndonjëherë në gjendje për të të treguar është një vend i bukur.
Get në këtë.
Ок, види, Косово, да смо устали на лосем. Ти ме не волиш као ја тебе. То је у реду. Али имам саобраћај из Танзаније данас. Танзанија! Ти си у Европи! Ја не разумем како свет функционише, где сам се саобраћај из Танзаније пре него што сам се саобраћај са Косова, који колико сам икада био у стању да кажем је дивно место.
Набавите на то.
Tamam, kötü bir başlangıç için kazanılmış ettik, Kosova bak. Seni seviyorum gibi beni sevmiyorsun. Bu tamam. Ama bugün Tanzanya trafik var. TANZANYA! Avrupa’da demektir! Ben bildiğim kadarıyla hiç söylemek mümkün oldum gibi güzel bir yer olduğunu, Kosova, trafik olsun önce ben Tanzanya gelen trafik nereden dünyanın nasıl anlamıyorum.
Bu konuda alın.
Bine, uite, Kosovo, am ajuns pe la un început prost. Tu nu mă iubești așa cum te iubesc. E în regulă. Dar m-am trafic de la Tanzania azi. TANZANIA! Ești în Europa! Eu nu înțeleg cum funcționează lumea în care pot obține de trafic de la Tanzania înainte de a obține de trafic de la Kosovo, care în măsura în care am fost vreodată în stare să spun este un loc minunat.
Urcă-te pe asta.
U redu, gledaj, Kosovo, smo skrenuli na loš start. Ti me ne voliš kao ja tebe. To je u redu. Ali imam saobraćaja iz Tanzanije danas. TANZANIJA! Ti si u Europi! Ne razumijem kako svijet funkcionira, gdje sam se promet iz Tanzanije prije nego što sam se promet sa Kosova, koje koliko sam ikada bio u stanju reći je divno mjesto.
Uzmi na to.
Dobre, pozri, Kosovo, sme dostali voľno na zlý štart. Ty ma nemiluješ, ako ja ťa milujem. To je v poriadku. Ale dnes som dostala prevádzku z Tanzánie. Tanzánia! Ste v Európe! Nechápem, ako funguje svet, kde som sa dostať prevádzku z Tanzánie, než sa dostanem prevádzku z Kosova, ktorý ak som nikdy nebol schopný povedať, je to krásne miesto.
Získajte na to.
Okay, look, Kosovo, we’ve gotten off to a bad start. You don’t love me like I love you. That’s okay. But I got traffic from Tanzania today. TANZANIA! You’re in Europe! I don’t understand how the world works where I get traffic from Tanzania before I get traffic from Kosovo, which as far as I’ve ever been able to tell is a lovely place.
Get on that.
(Albanian, Serbian, Turkish, Romanian, Bosnian, Slovak and English, respectively; all but English through Google Translate, so who knows what these actually say. It worked with Finland, didn’t it?)
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