The Smile File
Апр 07
2010
2010
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Does the title of this post make you guys throw up in your mouths a little bit? Are you cringing and rolling your eyes a little bit? Because I certainly am. I very nearly renamed this post something clever/witty/slightly snarky but then the rhyming overcame my sense of self awareness and well, here we are.
One of the benefits to being a teacher (I mean, besides all the dry erase markers and luxurious salary of $2) is that occasionally students make things for me. Drawings of other students picking their noses. Really misshapen pictures of horses that look like clouds. Notes thanking me for .
And being a blogger and nearly professional internet surfer has its benefits as well – the occasional kind email from you guys, tear-jerking and
Yesterday, after my fifth failed attempt to teach the difference between «fifty» and ‘»fifteen,» I dug through my emails to find one of the above mentioned kind messages to get me through the rest of the day. And it occurred to me that perhaps I needed to create a file of all these feel good things – the kind emails, the letters from students, my favorite writing clippings, the postcard from my grandma telling me how proud she is. Maybe this would change my mood faster than processed carbs and butter?
A few other things I’d include in my smile file?
What would go in your smile file – college acceptance letters? foreign currency? the invoice from your first free lance job? The ticket stub from your first date?
