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On Friday, I got to hear the words I’d been hoping for for months – a job offer at the school I’ve been working at for nearly 9 years. This school has seen me transition from being a paraprofessional to adding a lot of services to the library, to finishing my Master’s degree in Library/Information Science, to . . . → Read More: A new era As mentioned earlier this week, I spent an hour and a half on Friday talking to the Diversity Club at the school I work at. (Both lunches, so it was different sets of kids, except for a couple who have a free period over lunch.) We had 23 students by the diversity director’s count (plus him, plus the other diversity director, who is not normally based on that campus.) Two boys, the rest girls, and mostly upperclassmen rather than freshmen. There is no year of my life that has not, at some fundamental level, been wrapped up in the academic calendar. My father was a university professor: our family vacations ran on his schedule. Then there were my years of pre-school, elementary school, junior high, high school, and boarding school (a new and different schedule, that, but still, . . . → Read More: That time of year To many people, the HPS is the one responsible for making sure the spiritual and religious stuff happens. My take is that there are three essential roles: anchoring the spiritual core, providing direction, and making sure the practical details fall into place. . . . → Read More: Role of the High Priestess One of the good things about working for a school is the vacations. (There are also downsides: my breaks are unpaid time, and I don’t get any say in when I get them – it makes it very hard to do things requiring time off during the school year.) Last summer, I started a habit of doing a . . . → Read More: Taking a week |
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