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Poverty

I am feeling the pinch of a teacher's budget this month... and probably will for the next few months. Right now my bank account reads in the negatives thanks to a very busy beginning of the school year. I really couldn't have been bothered to sit down and figure out that I had been paid a couple hundred dollars less than previous months, or that I was having to pay out a couple of hundred dollars more. Whoops!

I'm hoping to make it too the end of the month without spending anything (spagetti again? wonderful!) I do have to buy football tickets for a game next month. This may sound frivilous, but it is a moral imperative. Or at least a familial obligation. I'm taking two younger cousins to a WSU football game and a tour of the college. One will be entering high school next year and we want to keep him on the right track. The other has had a very tough and will soon be facing more challenges than should be acceptable for a 4th grader. Plus, I'm desperate to visit the east side of the state - gas prices will drive up the cost of this little trip into the hundreds but I guess I can be in debt a while longer for the greater good.

I just remembered that I'm getting new glasses next month too! If only I weren't blind as a bat!

Maybe I can scrounge up enough ingredients to make sugar cookies. If you're looking for a good cook book with recipes for those scrounging for change in the couch cushions, you should try this -> Depression era cooking I've used it for years and has the best recipe for canned weeds and about a million things to do with eggs! (on sale this week at Safeway!)

FWIW - A friend offered to lend me Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone, claiming it to be the best money she's spent on any education book in the last four years. If you're teaching AP or planning english classes to support students moving onto that path - or are just crazy with the high expectation thing - you might want to take a look.

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Janet said…
People were admittedly thrilled when the first payday rolled around. We are even more thrilled now that our contracts have been finally been approved and we can get the increase we've been waiting for, too.
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