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It's kind of crazy how much deviantart's journal submission template has changed!! I do miss the more simplistic format. I feel like a lot has happened between now and my last post. I think maybe my last post was about leaving teaching and then moving into being an electrical apprentice (which I'm still doing and it's been great for the most part) Oddly enough, sometimes I do think about going back into teaching. Whether or not that would be teaching apprentices or teaching public school again, I can't say for sure. I almost want to do public school again just to see if I could manage it after working with primarily men in the construction field. Teaching sort of felt like I was in this insulated female bubble, which nothing wrong with that, but it made it harder to deal with teenage boys who aren't always on a path toward academics. Maybe I would be a little thicker skinned, too. And I certainly would be able to tell them with pretty heavy conviction that you will need to know how to

Kicked my teaching job to the curb. I'm now an electrician apprentice and working in Seattle on the Coleman Dock remodel. I am ten times sexier than I was when I opened my deviantart account in 2003. I am very aroused.

So, last time I wrote, I was just in the throws of the final months of my first year teaching. Today, I am now teaching at a location closer to home and for only part time. Why part time teaching? Because fuck teaching full time. I just now finally have the energy to actually do the grading and the planning and the contacting parents and conferring with students and all the other things a teacher does while maintaining sanity. Also, guess who now is part of an actual English department? Me. I don't have to do any curriculum design or anything. I know exactly what I'm going to teach and when exactly I'm supposed to teach it. About maintainin