he said. she said. a married couple's blog.

Another Saturday, another day at the office. Ugh. That's the way it's been -- incredibly, insanely busy. Plus, as I've mentioned, teaching has started.

This term, we aren't having any inservices. Instead, we have to go observe another teacher, learn something about teaching and write up a report. I went on Wednesday. It was good. I did learn a little bit about my teaching style, and how I might change a little. Most notably that time limits can be useful. I tend to just let people take as long as they need. Honestly, I'm quite glad that we don't have any inservices this time around. Teacher-speak is so full of jargon and acronyms. If you think the government is bad, try talking to a teacher about teaching. The whole experience is so "meta". That is, when a teacher tries to teach other teachers, they use whatever method it is they are trying to teach, as they are explaining it to you. It makes my head hurt. I just do. I do whatever it is that helps the learner get the subject. Some people like diagrams, some people just need a hard and fast rule, some people need a ton of examples, and some people just need me to sit there and let them talk through whatever it is they are learning. I don't need to sit in a room and learn about metacognition and the inquiry process and modeling. Whatever. Just let me do what I have to do.

Things at the office are also a little insane. Like I said, I'm here in my office at the moment; I've got a Monday deadline. Plus my other project is in the midst of some serious development work. Good times. Fortunately, I'm going to be getting some help soon. I had to interview a guy not that long ago -- talk about stressful, I've never done that before. He was super-impressive and seemed just about as perfect for the job as a person can be. Things sometimes move a little slow around here when it comes to hiring, but not this time. Oh no. My boss' boss knows how much I need help, so he starts on Monday. Thank God.