I Love my Job

Bonnie has been very good to me and given me a great deal of time this week to get ready for school to start next Tuesday. She is wonderful! Colony has also been extremely good to me. It helps that it is a newer school with a small business department. It is amazing to have so many toys, ahem, I mean tools, to use to make my job so effective.

I have a very large room with wonderful student workstations where the computers are off the desks and out of the way so that I can see the students more. They also are faced toward me with a huge mirror at the back of the room to allow me to see what is going on with their screens if I must. Also, the computers are taken care of by the district office. This means that I don't have to create users and that I have very powerful tools for classroom management, file distribution, etc.

It is amazing to have so many things working so well. I will get to spend much more time teaching and less time solving problems. My department chair, Randy Wormdahl, has also been amazingly supportive. For example, I am typing this on an ergonomic wireless keyboard that he provided for me. It is so good that I am almost tempted to get one for my Mac at home. Perhaps I will just have to do all my heavy typing while here at school instead of worrying about things at home. I also have a sheet fed scanner that lets me make amazing PDF files on the fly from large stacks of paper documents. Can you say heaven? To a teacher who loves to go digital, this is a godsend.

Well, it is that time of day again, time to hang up my hat and head home. I just feel very blessed right now to be working here. Also, everyone that I have met has been amazingly kind, friendly, and helpful too. Life is good and I truly feel blessed by my Father in Heaven.