Do you think this kid’s parents know he’s a meme now?  Do you think they’re upset about it, or do they think it’s awesome?  And do you think he’s old enough by now to have an opinion on it?

The following things are all true, if vaguely contradictory:

• I really miss my old school;
• I have no real desire to return to teaching there;
• I have no particular desire to return to teaching at all at the moment;
• I nearly changed something somewhere where I referred to myself as a “teacher” and then didn’t do it because the thought made me really sad.

I like my job in a concrete sense– in that, when I am at work, I am generally happy and I enjoy the people I work with and the work itself is in my wheelhouse and not generally unpleasant to perform.  I don’t like that I’ve been there for several months now and I still don’t know what to say when people ask me what I do for a living, and I’m still prone to simply lying and saying I’m a teacher.  I don’t want to teach, but I really don’t want to not be a teacher.  Which is… kinda weird, y’know?

It’s going to be really interesting to see what four days in Nashville edutopia later this week is going to do for my feelings about the future.  If this can’t get my head back on straight, I’m not sure what can.  We’ll see how it goes.