By Andrea Menzies
This week I am obsessed with Udemy classes. I am still going back to get my grad school degree. However classes are full and I have to wait a couple of months to start class. The Udemy platform lets you explore online school topics for not too much cash. Many other classrooms are online, but this is one of the few with discounts and quality. My job has not paid me anything this year yet, but when I get paid I am so taking classes.
By Andrea Menzies
I had to be on the phone on hold for what felt like one million years for night school today. At long last I was able to fully transfer and enroll in a new online night school for a master’s degree. I had to verify student loans over the phone. After a while it reminded me of a surreal video game like the jokes below.
By Andrea Menzies
Changing corporate logos have generated controversy this week. Pretty much all individually is against corporate politics.
By Andrea Menzies
I am glad to be back at work. Even if it does mean I have to start the day early. This door seems funny when you are sleepy. Meanwhile a camel showed up across the street from my job. Super strange!
Work day camel.
By Andrea Menzies
It is almost county fair time here in Chesterfield. One good thing about the area I am in is the fair with rides and music is only a 30 minute bike ride away from my house.
By Andrea Menzies
Time flies in summer for teachers. August 18 is the first day back from summer break in Chesterfield, VA schools. That makes Friday the last workday off from school before I have to wake up at 5 in the morning daily. I miss the money and the people, but I don’t miss the stress. I wrote several articles for the school newspaper in high school saying I wished all schools would have year-round school. As a grown up I also wish they would go year-round with a couple weeks of break. Students need massive schoolwork reviews after the summer break, students act bad before and after the break, teachers lack summer pay, teachers often need extra summer jobs, summer daycare is expensive for parents, and worst of all is the shock to the system of sleeping late before going back to early school. European schools only have a short break for summer then their students have better scores for University. Maybe someday a good system will become normal in the USA. Meanwhile I will soon miss sleeping.
By Andrea Menzies
I play video games online, chat, and go to concerts with some DC friends. One had this joke yesterday. Crime is actually down in DC this year. They say we don’t have enough money for government programs helping low income people. Yet we have money to deploy troops for crime? It is a LOL level joke. It is a very expensive thing to be marked safe from near me. Rich landlords all over the USA have made rent nightmare level expensive on apartments and houses. Then they make homelessness a crime to fill for-profit prisons. I find it extra scary that BBC news was the only news source that openly and fully was critical of the political move.
By Andrea Menzies
You know you have been teaching for a long time when the videos about classroom blood born pathogen warnings start to have dialogue you can recite and chant along with while watching. I can say the end of the video’s sentence before the video even says it. At least it helps me make all A grades on the quizzes at the end.
By Andrea Menzies
Thank you Cougar Town for mentioning older men are hard to date, and it is not always the women’s fault when they end up older in age and single. This week I am watching Cougar Town the TV show streaming on Hulu and other vintage TV. It is LOL level funny how some people think only 21 year old people date, go out, or listen to live music. This has never been less true in the modern day. It is pretty funny, and I give it five out of five stars.
Frozen History 7 Publishing Book Review Podcast 