It was so much fun, I have to leave
To my Hereford high school students who may have wondered why I suddenly disappeared: I was offered a long-term substitute job at Institute of Notre Dame, a Catholic girls school in Baltimore teaching engineering and physics. I'm starting on Monday(?!) going through June, so it's unlikely that I'll be subbing for Hereford anytime for the rest of this school year. To blame for me leaving Hereford are all the students that were in my classes when I was filling in for Ms. Watkins. (Ok, well, most of my students. . . glowers at TJ ) I loved teaching you all and it was the happiest time of my professional career. You are a fantastic lot; hilarious, eager to learn, polite, fun, and basically wonderful. I loved being a part of your lives, seeing you grow day to day, and trying to teach you and get you excited about stuff. Yet as much as I love seeing you all, being a substitute for a day is a bit of a drag, even at a great school like Hereford. You know how substitute days