Comments:

C - 2006-03-01 18:18:21
I don't think you are a Virgo but I am and you sound like a Virgo. My twin from another mother. I think you are a perfectionist and that is a hard thing to live up to. I have tired and it doesn't work. You just expect more from yourself than others do. But I wonder also if you could get your teaching certificate because sounds like you do more than some teachers do much less TAs.
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Kim - 2006-03-01 18:24:54
You're a reflective teacher. Every lesson or activity that you plan and carry out probably gets critiqued by you, and any opportunity you get to do it again reflects that critique. Some people are like that. I know I am, in the classroom. Your students benefit. I think it feels good to improve, even in tiny ways. Hey, doesn't it feel GREAT that the observation is over?!
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Stephanie - 2006-03-01 18:26:27
Actually, I AM a Virgo! And, yes Kim. It is a tremendous relief to put the observation behind me for another year!
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bb - 2006-03-01 19:02:29
I can relate to my own worst enemy. :-)
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Stefani - 2006-03-01 20:06:59
I'm glad you pointed people to the J-Mac story! It's gotten tons of play around here, as you can imagine. Steve had me watch it on ESPN one morning - brought tears to my eyes. The next time I watched the story, I only got goosebumps. When ALL the kids storm the court - it' so cool!
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LA - 2006-03-01 20:34:32
Damn perfect. I hate needing to be perfect and yet perfect still rules my life. Stupid perfect. Wanna sit around the Galleria and burp and scratch ourselves? Maybe we could even go in pajamas and use really bad grammar too! Just to prove the world won't end if we're not perfect. ~LA
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Stephanie - 2006-03-02 05:08:20
LA, that's the best offer I've had in a long time! ;)
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gin - 2006-03-02 06:18:41
hiya Stephanie - i mentioned this a few days ago: if you haven't already done so, so give the cache facility of the search engines whose spiders had access to d-x a go. i had far more luck with yahoo search than archive.com at dredging up old entries - still patchy, but they seem to have cached different stuff. gin (p.s: the thing about Virgo energy is not no much that it wants to be perfect but that it wants to be above criticism. it's a subtle difference but one i've seen playing out in many ways. i have a Virgo MC, and I want so much to be beyond criticism in that area of my life i'm terrified of stepping out and making career opportunities in case i get shot down. it's a bugger, however being aware of it helps a lot.)
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Stephanie - 2006-03-02 06:22:46
Thanks, Gin. I actually did check into that after you suggested it, but was running late for work, and didn't have time to dig deeper. I'm glad you reminded me. As for the Virgo energy - you hit the nail on the head. Fear of criticism is a HUGE problem for me.
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