random incoherent aimless thoughts

[la_belle_laide]

I lay awake in my bed most of the night, jumped up on caffeine, totally ODing on it, feeling like a panic attack without any panic at all, but just tons of ideas, images, few words but not really dreams.

I had this brilliant idea of doing a huge, massive photo session with everyone from Kung Fu and then giving all the pictures to the students and to Sifu, a great big martial arts portfolio. It seemed brilliant at the time, frivolous today but I still want to do it.

I randomly want to have a son and name it Fox.

My friend dropped off all her birds today and we talked about me going back to school to be a teacher and she said, "Definitely do it, but realize that a lot of schools don't want to hire someone who's out of their twenties."

She looked at my manuscript and said, "Why is this still on your couch?"

I took pictures of her birds. I read a story. I took the dogs out.

Not many really coherent thoughts. I should be thinking about all the stuff I need to do tomorrow! Get directions, give directions, figure out if I'm going with anyone or alone, who, where, what!

Just before I accidentally opened a can of kidney beans instead of string beans because the word on the label said "beans" and I didn't bother looking at the picture. It took me actually pouring them out to realize it was the wrong can and then I started thinking about pumpkins.

I planted pumpkin seeds a few weeks ago and already there are lots of plants, really tall but I know there probably won't be any pumpkins this year.

An image came into my head, planting int he spring and harvesting in the fall; if you don't plant in the spring you don't get to harvest in the fall, do you?

It made me picture myself going back to school and then looking for a job. I didn't exactly plant in the spring.

I still want to take those damn pictures!

Comments

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

My friend dropped off all her birds today and we talked about me going back to school to be a teacher and she said, "Definitely do it, but realize that a lot of schools don't want to hire someone who's out of their twenties."

Not at all to bash on your friend or any data she might have to support this statement, but her experience and hiring practices she observed don't jive with my own observances (admittedly second-hand.

The woman i lived with in NYC this summer is a teacher (has worked in both public school programs and privately-funded school programs over the course of her life). She went back to school at 30 for a masters and teacher's cert--previous to that she'd been working at museums and as an office temp--and has had no trouble getting work in the greater NYC and LI areas. 75% of her coworkers (actual figure, not a guesstimate) are woman and men 35 and older.

Of course, she's willing to work with underpriveleged children, with special needs children, and in predominantly minority schools (her first job was in Spanish Harlem, which she loved). Her current school is partnered with a charity-program-funded group home that helps women who've been in jail get back on their feet--the school works with the women on parenting help, pantry food distro, WIC if needed, etc., and she LOVES it. Like, fiercely.

So, y'know, i think you should do it and i think that YOU won't have a problem getting hired because i think you probably would gladly accept work with those demographics of kids as well.