My posts on this blog are few and far between, which means I only blog when I have something extremely blog worthy... so having said that everybody better listen up!!
I am busy in life right now. I have been tunneling underground many a late night, checking lasers, learning about hydraulic/electric motors, blasting rocks apart and operating larger tunnel boring machines. I am busy at work and then just as busy at home trying to P90X this body of mine, raise a newborn puppy (we got a new puppy named Millie "bourgeois" Kassouf... the middle name is French... dont ask questions), and spending quality time with my better half.
The point of this post so far is that I am busy... or at least I thought I was busy, that is until my wife decided that she wanted to earn a second AND third degree in life and... oh yea... do them both at the same time. Sarah has now thrust her life into two very different worlds, on the one hand you have the absolutely insanely crazy and frightening world of inner city middle school teaching as well as the highly intellectual and fast moving world of Accelerated Nursing/Masters program.
For the next month of our lives Sarah is redefining "busy." I really don know how else to put it, here is a glimpse into an average day for her...
5.40AM my alarm goes off (the one thing I have over her is that I still wake up earlier) I am out the door on the way to work around 6.00AM which is about the time when Sarah wakes up, she takes Millie outside to go the bathroom and then rushes to get to Orchard Middle School on time where she teaches 6th and 7th science classes. Now let me make the record clear... Sarah loves teaching at Orchard and she absolutely loves the kids... having said that there are a few sets backs to inner city Cleveland teaching. One set back would be the metal detector she must walk through every morning to enter the building, a second set back would be the day when a student named George screamed at her and called her a B* in front of the whole class, she has to deal with trying to pronounce names like "Agropiecia, and Matrix-O. She spends several hours a day in this Lord of the Flies atmosphere before scrambling home for 10 minutes just to let Millie out and eat a quick lunch. From here she high-tails it across town where she spends 3 hours learning about Anatomy and Physiology and Patho something or another. Some guy sat next to her on the first day and is now her lab partner, I am pretty sure he has a thing for her and if he writes on her wall one more time I am going to rip off his arm and beat him with it, that would be a good anatomy lesson for him... dont you think?
When Class is over around 5.00PM she rushes home to again let Millie out and then cook a quick dinner* (* = I have started trying to cook more often, however, that usually ends in something that tastes like wood, or me mixing tuna and Cinnamon and thinking it was a good idea... dont judge). After dinner Sarah spends anywhere from 3 to 4 hours studying for the test that is somehow always just 1 or 2 days away and covers more of the human body then most people ever knew existed. When her brain is fried and she cant focus anymore she takes a break and writes her lesson plan/grades papers for tomorrows battle with the middle school students. As if all that isnt enough she then has to get online and do her Ethics class homework (Stupid pre-requisite for nursing school). Brutus and Maximus get fed, she brushes her teeth, puts on pajama pants that are too short for her and falls dead asleep around midnight.
Repeat the above list for 2 months...
I dont really know how she is keeping it all together, but so far she has managed to get all A's on her teaching reviews and all A's on her anatomy tests.
I am proud of her... proud enough to blog a really long blog about it.
So until next time thanks for reading another Kassoufsgreatesthits!
Matt
I am busy in life right now. I have been tunneling underground many a late night, checking lasers, learning about hydraulic/electric motors, blasting rocks apart and operating larger tunnel boring machines. I am busy at work and then just as busy at home trying to P90X this body of mine, raise a newborn puppy (we got a new puppy named Millie "bourgeois" Kassouf... the middle name is French... dont ask questions), and spending quality time with my better half.
The point of this post so far is that I am busy... or at least I thought I was busy, that is until my wife decided that she wanted to earn a second AND third degree in life and... oh yea... do them both at the same time. Sarah has now thrust her life into two very different worlds, on the one hand you have the absolutely insanely crazy and frightening world of inner city middle school teaching as well as the highly intellectual and fast moving world of Accelerated Nursing/Masters program.
For the next month of our lives Sarah is redefining "busy." I really don know how else to put it, here is a glimpse into an average day for her...
5.40AM my alarm goes off (the one thing I have over her is that I still wake up earlier) I am out the door on the way to work around 6.00AM which is about the time when Sarah wakes up, she takes Millie outside to go the bathroom and then rushes to get to Orchard Middle School on time where she teaches 6th and 7th science classes. Now let me make the record clear... Sarah loves teaching at Orchard and she absolutely loves the kids... having said that there are a few sets backs to inner city Cleveland teaching. One set back would be the metal detector she must walk through every morning to enter the building, a second set back would be the day when a student named George screamed at her and called her a B* in front of the whole class, she has to deal with trying to pronounce names like "Agropiecia, and Matrix-O. She spends several hours a day in this Lord of the Flies atmosphere before scrambling home for 10 minutes just to let Millie out and eat a quick lunch. From here she high-tails it across town where she spends 3 hours learning about Anatomy and Physiology and Patho something or another. Some guy sat next to her on the first day and is now her lab partner, I am pretty sure he has a thing for her and if he writes on her wall one more time I am going to rip off his arm and beat him with it, that would be a good anatomy lesson for him... dont you think?
When Class is over around 5.00PM she rushes home to again let Millie out and then cook a quick dinner* (* = I have started trying to cook more often, however, that usually ends in something that tastes like wood, or me mixing tuna and Cinnamon and thinking it was a good idea... dont judge). After dinner Sarah spends anywhere from 3 to 4 hours studying for the test that is somehow always just 1 or 2 days away and covers more of the human body then most people ever knew existed. When her brain is fried and she cant focus anymore she takes a break and writes her lesson plan/grades papers for tomorrows battle with the middle school students. As if all that isnt enough she then has to get online and do her Ethics class homework (Stupid pre-requisite for nursing school). Brutus and Maximus get fed, she brushes her teeth, puts on pajama pants that are too short for her and falls dead asleep around midnight.
Repeat the above list for 2 months...
I dont really know how she is keeping it all together, but so far she has managed to get all A's on her teaching reviews and all A's on her anatomy tests.
I am proud of her... proud enough to blog a really long blog about it.
So until next time thanks for reading another Kassoufsgreatesthits!
Matt
ps- we're going to vegas in a few weeks with 25 friends... oh yes!
