Below are the 13 most recent journal entries recorded in hermanafleming's LiveJournal:

Saturday, November 5th, 2005
9:41 pm	Update available at flems... I am changing my username because too many people misunderstand the hermana part. So go see me at flems... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
8:42 pm	Post Halloween Crash Candy wrappers. All over my floor. And smashed laffy taffys and snickers. Do kids really think that if they drop a wrapper on the floor, it will just erode? Ugh. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 28th, 2005
5:24 pm	I don't have much to say except that I needed to update. And that I hate Halloween. I have to dress up so I seem like a fun teacher and all I have is a lame costume. Bah. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 17th, 2005
6:47 pm	Long days Did anyone know that your brain requires more food than the rest of your body? If I don't eat for awhile I can function normally, I just can't think too well. I just looked at some pictures of me in high school that made me cringe. Am I the only human being on the planet who thinks I look better at 30 than 16? I seriously hate the pics. Like, threw them away hate. I know it is shallow, but I can't believe my mother even took that many pics of me. May my poor daughters not have to face the horribly awkward phase I went through. I will, however, state that I developed a fantastic sense of humor due to the fact that no high school boy would ever have taken me seriously in such a state. AND I was an award-winning jazz band soloist- did you know that? I wish the internet had been around because then I could have blogged my way through and felt like I had real friends. I have one friend leftover from that time period. And she liked me even when I was awkward. Nice. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 7th, 2005
10:52 pm	Don't care I just don't care anymore. I am tired of being the fall guy/girl for this crap. I don't really want to go into details, I just hate crap like "New Tech's Top Model" and other such tasteless events (hate to say it, but the BSU provocative dancing is also ridiculous) where people dance on each other in inappropriate ways. I feel like I have to be responsible for kids' behavior everywhere I go. I mean, in the end does it really matter what the breakdancers were doing in public? Why blame me for it? Next time around, I am going to teach. No extra duties, no Student Government with a bunch of elitist kids who don't want to plan a events for stupid, uncool people. Just teach. Aaaah. Calgon take me away. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 19th, 2005
9:02 pm	Bad day Today was a pretty crappy day because of one really lame event. Lots of things happened to tick me off, but somehow I let it all roll off- but after school the principal asked me to take down a sign that said "Back to School Dance- let's make it crack!" because of the drug reference. What? This is ridiculous. The kid who made the sign is a superfly good kid. She is "hip" but not a problem child. She knows what is hot and would never hang anything up if she thought it were offensive. I even looked up crackin on urban dictionary and it said: To describe something that is tight and worthwhile.Ooo, that party last night with the DJ girl? Hella CRACKIN, dog! I guess because crack is the infinitive form of the verb it is also seen as a noun, which is obviously, drug-related. I just didn't need that. I am sure my boss meant no harm, but I am burned out on the micromanagement of the signage. I am just going to tell every kid that she has to sign them! Ha! I just solved my own problem. Current Mood: aggravated (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 15th, 2005
9:10 pm	The govenator Today I was in a "Morning Walk" at Cal Expo with the govenator and Lance Armstrong, Maria Shriver, and 45 students from my school. I had a great time- the point was to kick off some "summit" on fighting childhood obesity and focusing on good health. So the event kicked off with a breakfast that was fantastic- some healthy breakfast bars, a nice and juicy ripe peach (california grown I am sure) and some yogurt- organic! They had water and milk and many kids went back for seconds of everything. A girl came up to me and said "Was that breakfast? I thought there would be sausage and eggs, bacon, biscuits, that kind of stuff..." I said "this is about HEALTH, lady!" She gave me a dirty look. It was a cool event. I saw celebrities from less than ten feet away and I got to start my day with a 1 km (yes 1 kilometer) walk. I love my job. I am going to brag for a second about how we got the hookup so you can stop reading now. I work with this student council group at the district level, which has given me some other cool opportunities like attending Carnegie Foundation conferences in cool cities with nice hotels (Chicago and Houston). One really cool kid I worked with (who is living in Oxford this year while she waits to go to Harvard in Fall 06 on a full-ride scholarship)had an internship this summer at State Superintendent Jack O'Connell's office. She called me and said "there is this really cool event I thought you might want to do!" Anyway, it turned out to be an invitation only event and we had the sweet hookups. Heck yesss. Pays to go to lame conferences at the district sometimes. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
10:28 pm	Mentor Teacher How did I get to this point in my career? I have now gotten to the point that I have a lot of information in my head that a lot of other people don't know. I used to like it, but now it just makes me think everyone around me is incompetent. I have a terrible memory and I am not really that smart- so why I am I the sole possessor of most information on my campus? I was out of my classroom for two hours to help other teachers develop their curriculum. Is it that freaking hard to write a decent rubric? Por favor. And seriously, is it that hard to figure out how to fill out a field trip request form? And seriously, if you don't know your content area, do the freaking research. I am just happy to work on a campus with really amazing people. Can you imagine if I worked at a real school with real loser retirees? At least we don't have a wannabe health teacher who has come out of retirement for health benefits and because his wife is sick of his a$$ at home who just sleeps all day while kids do word searches not even knowing that they are learning about sexually transmitted diseases. "Did you get 'syphilis'?" "no, you?" "no. Oh! Here it is! Right next to 'crabs'. Did you get 'crabs'?" No idea. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 10th, 2005
9:50 pm	Physical Labor Okay, I discovered today that I am lazy. I was using a pick axe to pull up the corner of my lawn so I can do some cool landscaping and I am totally exhausted. I spent about four hours, not like all day or anything, and I have callouses and my muscles ache. I know I will wake up in the morning all sore and I can't believe it. There are people who do this all day long everyday. Those people are mainly men. It is a good thing I have an education so I don't actually have to do said labor. I would like to believe, however, that if I lived in a different time period where women were valued for there ability to labor (both in childbirth and in the fields) I may have been better at this. For now, I am lazy. Loser. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 8th, 2005
9:58 pm	I love my job/why do I have to login so much? Tonight was Back to School Night. This is why I love my job. Received present from parent of mucho expensivo Paul Mitchell hair products (from hairdresser mother in appreciation of me taking time out of my summer to go to Santa Barbara with a bunch of teenagers). Also love the parents who come to these events. Whoever says that teachers are underappreciated must not count all the billions of thank yous on a regular basis. I admit we are underpaid considering a girl told me "I am sick of you always hating on people who don't suck up to you" today after class. Is she serious? I wish that the kids I liked the most sucked up to me. I can't help it if a kid is always talking to me. I had a girl show up at the hospital and bring me a gift when my second child was born. I didn't ask her to come, she just did. So was she my favorite? No, but eventually because she made the effort to be nice to me, we became close. I don't get why kids are all into that "favorite" issue. I can honestly say that my favorite kids are kids who don't even come talk to me. They are funny, clever kids, who do their work and are polite. Most of my "favorite" students probably have no idea I enjoy having them in class. Little miss "you are playing favorites" was actually one of my preferred until she pissed me off. Now she is OFF the list. OFF. Besides, my job is to educate everyone, and I pay special attention to the biggest losers who are off task. Are they my favorites? NO. Geez. Okay, so I went overboard. Whatev. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Another Brick in the Wall (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
9:59 pm	Thank goodness for Katrina! Barbara Bush: "Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston." Then she added: "What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them." This is unbelievable. Similar to her husband a few years back claiming that the median income in America was $139,000. I wonder if we can make that the minimum wage? Current Mood: confused (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005
10:49 pm	Time waster I dropped xanga for many reasons, one major one being the time wasting of trying to keep up with everyone's comments. Tonight for the first time in a while I was incredibly productive- DDR for 30 minutes, weights during Gilmore Girls (known as GG from now on) and then worked for nearly an hour! Wow. I read my ex-xangan friend's posts but as I was no longer involved in the conversations, I somehow felt free, free! So here I am, expressing, only expressing. Freedom of it all. I personally think that the legislature made a mistake today because of prop 22. The governator will say no because of that prop and then everyone will hate each other. Why can't we just all get along. Boo on the government. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Whatever is on radio paradise (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 21st, 2005
2:38 pm	See my xanga I don't post here because I can't even keep up with my xanga, which actually has some pics occasionally... If you can find me there, read it. Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)