Clothes and Reason

The positives outweigh the negatives ...

I've been telling myself the preceeding statement all week. The positives of teaching at the school I do outweigh the problems that I would face in a public school district. Although I'm not completely sure that its true, its nice to embrace that fact.

In order to "get over" the week, I went shopping. Everyone knows that when I am upset, sad, depressed, or anything to that effect, I want to shop. Whether its at the grocery store or at the mall, I want retail therapy. I'm not sure how I ended up with this, but its a family issue. Mom, Dad, sisters, grandmothers, grandfathers, cousins, everyone! Almost all of do it. And its the physicality of picking something up and putting it in a basket or hearing the register ka-ching.

Whatever it is, it helps.

Thankfully, Mana wanted to go to a store she heard about on Oprah (I heard about it on Project Runway). Steve and Barry's is the best place in the entire world. I am a convert and if you are near one, you should as well! Everything in thier store was $7.98. They are the exclusive carriers of the lines by Sarah Jessica Parker, Venus Williams, Amanda Bynes, and (for guys!) Stephon Marbury. Best place ever! I got three work shirts, a sweater, a pair of work pants, and two pairs of tennis shoes (yes, the shoes were $7.98 too!). I felt so much better.

Anyways, the shopping and trip to Golden Corral made everything seem a little bit better.

Which is nice.

Now, I'm sitting at the Starbucks with free internet (since a spa next door has it for free!). I went to the school website and randomly looked at the comment section. Every once in a while,

I remember one of the reasons I got into teaching:
Posted on 1/10/2008:
hi!I'm Junelyn! i woulg just want to add a comment and want to say that I Love STT it is a verygood school and has the best,cool,awesome and strict (in a very good way!) teachers. For all the teachers i would like to thank them for their hard work and for all the fun that they brought to me and to all of us. I also would like to thank espacially my math teacher "Mr.Kaharaman",my science teacher"Mr.Yurtseven,my social studies teacher"Mr,Pawkett,and my Turkish teacher"Aydin Bey" and the rest, for really trying your best to teach us great stuffs!!!! .....I LOVE SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.....

And so goes the life ...