Shopping

I went shopping most of yesterday. I bought some more teacher clothes. For more or less all of my life I have been in school. I've been a student for so long that I didn't even notice that I had no non-super casual clothes whatsoever. T-shirts and jeans are the extent of my wardrobe, so I ran out of outfits right quick last week. It's especially hard at my school because I see my classes only twice a week, so I can never remember when I saw a particular class last not to mention what I was wearing at that time. My mom teaches college so she has a similar issue and I remember how badly we teased her when she started writing down what she wore each day so she wouldn't wear the same thing to the same class. Now I think it's a pretty good idea. I bought two pairs of teacher pants and two nice long sleeve shirts. I also got a tank top to wear underneath teacher shirts and a pair of jeans for jeans friday. I am a t-shirt and jeans kind of girl, but my jeans are much too casual. I also always top my jeans off with a very business like shirt, so as not to appear too childish.

I think my students know I'm really young though, unfortunately. At least the eighth graders do. One of my seventh graders last week asked me if any of my classes had ever gotten a 90% class average before, because that's one of our big goals as a class. I almost burst out laughing right then and there. I sort of sidestepped the question by telling him that I had never set the goal that high before, which is technically true, but I've also never had any students before to set goals for, which I conveniently forgot to mention. Seventh graders are so sweet and eighth graders are so mean and nasty. What a horrible time for people.

I can't believe I STILL have two more days of freedom before work starts. Four day weekends are amazing. Today I might do some laundry and go grocery shopping. I also need to buy shoes and a flashdrive so I can do my grading at school and at home. Plus floss, allergy medication, and face scrubbing things from Trader Joe's. I may have to take back one of the pairs of pants I bought yesterday, depending on how much those items cost. I did get payed a lot more than I thought I would, but still not very much.

Right now I might take a nap though. I went out last night for just a little bit with my teaching fellow friend V. She's the best person ever and she's from New Jersey so she has a lot of friends here already who are really cool. We went to her friend's birthday party, which was a little weird because it was a pretty small gathering and I felt a little intrusive, but her friends were really nice and I think they all liked me enough. V promised to hang out with me on my birthday, which is good. I told her I didn't want to do anything like a special my birthday thing. I just want to hang out somewhere cool and have fun. I don't like doing things that are organized around my birthday though, it puts a weird pressure on me and I also don't like the idea of being rejected by many people on my birthday. When you have something for your birthday, then anyone who doesn't come probably hates you and anyone who only knows you sort of feels awkward coming because they don't want to intrude on someone's birthday. So I'd rather just go out and have a good time and have it happen to be my birthday then doing something specifically organized for my birthday.

What a long and rambling post. That's what you get for four day weekends.