Work is...

Work is great.

Work is hooligans kicking all of the air conditioning units off of the portables the night before the first day of school.

Work is 34+ sweaty grade 12 students in a rotting-corpse-smelling box of a portable with the teacher sucking on hot air instead of breathing.

Work is moving from one of these sticky situations to another, to another.

Work is the School Board taking one portable away and then declaring that all computer labs will be used for regular classrooms due to space issues (that is, there's not enough of it). This means we have no ability to book or use computer labs in the year 2008.

Work is finding this spoken word artist on Youtube and sharing his insights with my students:

http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=9

The website says he is coming to Guelph for a "conference." There is no information about what kind of conference or where in Guelph it might be happening.

Work is having to submit Professional Development requests long before the actual information about good opportunities is available.