Retraction
Remember the teaching job I didn’t get last week? Well, I just begun to truly embrace the prospect of lounging around in my pajamas all day and getting in touch with my inner sociopath when fortune somehow reversed itself and the school offered me a job teaching middle school English, which I knee-jerk reactively accepted.
This was great news! Wasn’t it? It was! Wasn’t it? I realized that the source of my ambivalence lay in my own remarkably effective ability to convince myself earlier in the week that I didn’t really want the job.
What were the reasons I was so gung-ho about teaching two weeks ago? Why couldn’t I remember them?
There was the free lunch with a generous salad bar that included shredded cheese and garbanzo beans.
There was the money.
Then, I remembered the main reason I wanted to teach! It’s the time-honored mantra of teachers, those two simple words teachers cleave to, the words that keep them climbing into those trenches, day after day…until the middle of May, that is.
Summers Off!