Em writes things...

I have decided to try to do a little more networking between all the different things I write in different places. So, I'ma share this too!

You'll get some more on PEPY in the coming months...as we prepare to take a tour with them in Cambodia (as opposed to lead one in Himeji)!

PEPY Ride Hyogo (aka, the article I write like every six months to promote my bike ride event)

I write things...

Sometimes I write them and they go up on other websites.

Here's a fun story about how 6th graders are better at phonics than my JHS students!

http://www.hyogoajet.net/hyogotimes/2011/10/26/english-sensei-spirit-how-my-6th-graders-learned-to-spell/

Decent

You're probably wondering, did she even go to Singapore or Kuala Lumpur? I haven't seen any evidence.

Don't worry.. those posts are coming.

For now I've got this to share: Hyogo Times Online

I spent Sunday night in a gleeful reverie, as you may have read. Then I spent Monday harried and wanting to tear out all my hair by the roots, rushed and irrational and pissed off for no good reason because people were just being jerks is all, only they weren't really. Also I had four classes and then one period of standing in the freezing gym while the kids received a bosai lecture about how to handle fires and earthquakes.

Monday night, my HT staff members rallied (turns out, they are actually rock stars, and not the 'jerks' I spent all midday believing every last person on earth to be) and I woke up Tuesday happy and ready to roll.

The website is under construction. I gave both my designer and my web editor long laundry lists of notes about changes of all varieties. Not everything is quite finished, but it's in the works. And it's decent, for now.

Me and my Comb

I just got the Hyogo Times file to proof before distribution and I'm having to make myself not go over it tonight.. I'm just excited about it, is all. I imagine the kick I get out of Being Editor will die down eventually and become just another thing I do.

But right now, I don't just do it. I want to do it and have to go to bed instead. Haha. Seriously. The PDF looks sweet. And I've already found a bunch of "errors" and nitpicky crap to ask to be changed.. I want to read over every last little detail and smooth over every last photo caption.

Do you ever do something and stop to consider maybe you were born to do it?

Here's to tomorrow, and my fine toothed-comb. (I also get to do letters with first years tomorrow... I love that pack of weirdos)