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it's going well. i'm so much happier than i was during ST ... you wouldn't believe. or maybe i bitched enough that you would. the librarian loves the kids, everyone loves the kids, i love the kids. every once in awhile they do grate on my nerves (and that reminds me, i'm going in early tomorrow to re-do seating) but a little extraneous talking? (seriously, that is the extent of my management difficulties.) i'll take it. remember back in the beginning, when i wished they'd talk more? they talk now.

i don't miss c., or the discomfort that came with always trying to impress her or trying hard to pretend i wasn't trying to impress her. now i'm just me, and yes i've fallen on my face a couple of times but i'll fall on my face a hundred more times before teaming up with someone that negative ever again. (big words, i know. i will not be able to avoid situations like that simply because i hate them; GLO #2 is it? community contributor? the understanding that it is essential for human beings to work together? but even if i can't avoid those situations, i will hopefully never again have the quality of my teaching graded by someone that negative. there, that's more realistic.)

things are not all rosy, but i like to think they will always be better than they were.