http://www.pleonast.com/user/email recent pleonast.com entries by user email en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/email?l=5&entryID=596307 If you go into teaching to actually teach, think again. Cause I don't actually teach all that much. Here are the many jobs I actually do as a third grade teacher: 1) Janitor - I am required to sanitize my desks once a day as well as keep my room neat and tidy. 2) Babysitter - I have bus duty about four weeks a year in which I watch the kids in the gym for 45 minutes a day (yes, they are allowed to come that early before school so I can babysit them). Lovely. 3) Counselor - Not only have I been dealing with bully issues in my own classroom (when do I find the time to deal with that I do not know) but now we as teachers are required to give empathy training to students by possibly bringing in babies to show the empathy with, complete suicide training required by the state and implement a new bus safety control program thanks to two boys who beat up a bus driver (in the video about the training for students it mentioned that bus drivers don't have time to deal with bus issues... 2008-11-06 http://www.pleonast.com/user/email?l=5&entryID=537437 Last summer = Grad school This summer = Summer O Fun This was my first week and a half of summer: *Arizona *Sedona *Chase Field - Arizona Diamondbacks Game *Univ. of Phoenix Stadium - Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney *I love West Gate - I went there everyday I was in Arizona. I would buy a T-shirt if I could *Seeing old friends and meeting new *South Mountain in Phoenix *Camping back in TN - Smores and Hot Dogs over a fire. Can't beat it! We partied with 1,000,000 bugs (oops, I mean 999,985 - we killed a few) *10 miles of White Water Rafting including the Olympics! *LP Field - Sara Evans, Randy Travis, Phil Stacey and my all time favorite, Billy Ray Cyrus (J/K) I actually never in a million years thought I would ever be hearing Achy, Breaky Heart in concert. Ever. *Home improvement projects - in which I have been very thankful for the makers of a product called GOOF OFF - thanks to them my house has returned to "normal" *Learning to trust God even more than before 2008-06-09 http://www.pleonast.com/user/email?l=5&entryID=521234 Last night, after my final assessment for grad school all of the girls were standing around talking and saying goodbye. It was a little bit bitter sweet. We are all glad to be done but I am a little sad those people I have met and worked with the last 15 months are going to become friends of my past. I spent time reflecting on my time there and whether or not my being there made a difference. I reflected on whether or not I have even become a better speaker or leader from the program. I reflected on whether or not I will even become a principal. The talk with the group was on who was applying for jobs and where everyone was going. One girl is moving to Chicago, one is getting married, one had a baby TODAY and they obviously have things going on in their life. Then I was asked the question: "Where are you headed Misty? Colorado? Staying here?" I replied with: "I don't know." They all laughed and one said "Well, come on, where is your 5 year pla... 2008-04-25 http://www.pleonast.com/user/email?l=5&entryID=515044 The girl bagging my groceries today said I looked tan. And yes, if you know what I look like or know me at all, you may LOL. 2008-04-09