I am tired

I am tired of spending 20 hours on a single lesson plan only to get a "B"
I am tired of professors telling me,
 "statistics show that close to 50% of fresh college grads with teaching degrees quit the profession within the first five years."
"You'll be in school from 7-5 and up grading papers and writing lesson plans until 3 am."
"If your lucky enough to get hired right out of college, it will most likely be the day before school begins so you will have no prep time"
"You'll have days where you just want to cry but can't and years where your flat out not the best teacher you could be"
"You have to worry about standards, administrators, parents, 30 year knowledge, CEC classes and most importantly students lives"
And now to sleep. :)

Whimsical

I leave art work made from scraps of food in coffee shops; I pretend my shadow is a person following me and create elaborate stories in my head of a great escape, involving witty remarks, I draw stars that exist only in my mind and write the endings to stories that have yet to begin; I believe the depth of one's life is measured by the number of times they make another person smile. Smile. Gapped tooth, big lips, coffee stained smile. People are like constellations; we are each our own bright star and when we connect with others we make pictures in the sky. I create silly faces from scraps of food at coffee shops. Smile please.