Blog #46

I can't tell you how many of these blogs I have started with the intention of maintaining them full time. As I approach the halfway point of grad school, it seems even more foolish to begin a blog when my free time is limited to a few cigarettes a day and perhaps a televsion show now and then. However, I have gathered a list of reasons to persuade myself why beginning a blog is in my best interest. In no particular order:

• I have an endless bounty of hilarious, shocking, & entertaining stories from my perils in student teaching. To not share them would be doing a disservice to the ones I love and care about.
• I have the memory of an Alzheimer-ridden 90-year-old and lack the capacity to remember every thought or idea that crosses my head in a given day. This way, I will (hopefully, fingers crossed!) make mention of things in my blog that would otherwise get lost in transition with the rest of the junk in my head.
• I enjoy writing but don't get nearly enough time for the recreational sort since my life is devoted to lesson plan after lesson plan. Now, I can blog in class and it will appear as if I'm typing notes when in fact, I am probably writing about the enormous underwear lines my fashion-unconscious professor is sporting that day. Take that, M. Ed program.

So I only have 3 reasons, but I think they are good reasons, and I like the number 3. If this blog even continues into next month I will be overcome with surprise, but for now, I'll give myself the benefit of the doubt since I'm on winter break and have nothing better to do.

Peace

E.