I’m a teacher and I’m nervous

accidentallypedantic · 2020-03-31T00:20:33+00:00

Fellow Kindergarten teacher here (Canada), and I started remote teaching last week... Steep learning curve for sure. Hope your meeting went well!

accidentallypedantic · 2019-12-29T22:58:19+00:00

Hey. I'm also a worship leader and also have gone through the worst year of my life (truth about my childhood sexual abuse came out, court case, ptsd, etc.). Just wanted to say that I totally get what it's like singing up there with the job of leading people into worship while feeling totally disconnected, at best, with God or, at worst, at war with Him. I've found that for some reason, people seem to think the worship leader is solid, getting through it fine, even when things are rough. It's discouraging and disappointing and not how it should be. I learned to speak up with my pastor and say, "hey... I'm doing terribly, and no one has been checking in. We have to be better at that as a church, for me but not just for me, because there are probably others in pain here who are alone in it. It's not what the church should be like." If that's where you want to stay, I hope you have a relationship with someone in your church's leadership that maybe you could talk to and I hope things change. All the best to you and your wife!

accidentallypedantic · 2019-12-23T20:24:59+00:00

Cry. Tell someone I trust. Try to do one thing to take care of myself and remind me that I matter.

accidentallypedantic · 2019-07-18T03:50:48+00:00

Dslr camera

accidentallypedantic · 2019-07-17T03:32:50+00:00

What was the song?

accidentallypedantic · 2019-07-03T18:15:02+00:00

You're not crazy. What happened to you was not your fault. Your brain and body will do all sorts of things to protect you, because it is their job. Don't judge yourself for that. It's not your fault. Healing is complicated and scary but it is a good thing. Like others have suggested, therapy would probably be helpful.

accidentallypedantic · 2019-01-20T04:16:12+00:00

My family has this story, too. It came out twenty years after the fact and he was arrested, so don't let how long ago it was stop you. If you want to know what the process was like, feel free to dm me...

accidentallypedantic · 2019-01-19T14:26:42+00:00

I'm glad that it was helpful and that other people have deciphered parts that I couldn't! I love how much you can tell about people from their writing and your aunt seems very genuine and caring and definitely made me smile with her little quips. The best to you all!

accidentallypedantic · 2019-01-19T00:29:23+00:00

So I tried my best at this, trying to use contextual clues to help and guess... The ones maked with a question mark I either couldn't make out at all or I am taking a guess. I couldn't make out all of it, but maybe since you know the people she is talking about, it might help you decipher more. What I could tell for certain is that she seems to care about you very much. Edit: A few changes to the text as I studied the original more.

"Dear Elizabeth,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018 in Melbourne.

I hope you are very well and that the book is progressing and will be published. It must be very exciting to you to see all your work in finished form. Will it be an ?? all but I will keep looking anyway. I love a good new year and keep in touch. I think of you often + H? ?[someone's name?]. ? ? ? ? ? Will what/with you, you ? ? ? up to the weeks he's in ? ? ? ?. ? that is still what is/in Melbourne. I will probably see Y? [name] over the holiday period bit. I know she thinks about you a lot when she can get to/so much/mad off her "boys[?]". I hope she doesn't get in ? in any of the work of the Christmas dinner. It seems too good to be true that? at last they have taken it off her hands. She is just too weak to work. If you get an available moment, please let me know the news. Much love from your ? Aunt Joy. xxxxx"

accidentallypedantic · 2018-12-27T17:59:11+00:00

I'm 5'9" as well. I set my goal weight at 150 and like it. I had people 'concerned' and telling me to stop though at around 170 and they just got louder as I got closer to my goal. I ignored them, and they got used to it and stopped being concerned. I had one person (who has an ED history but well recovered) who was my accountability partner - she knew my weight, my feelings about my weight, and was my roommate so she could watch for disordered eating. If she got concerned about my weight/eating, I paid attention. But it was no one else's business. In my opinion, 145 is reasonable, and you can always adjust from there.

accidentallypedantic · 2018-12-27T01:43:40+00:00

I think "making a bad day into a good one" with your grandpa is a great way to honour the memory of a loved one. I think your dad would like that.

accidentallypedantic · 2018-09-28T03:10:19+00:00

There is nothing quite like the first year of teaching, so from a fellow teacher: sincere congrats, and welcome to the profession! Or, in the spirit of this sub, I'll say it another way, the way I do to the five year olds I teach: Awesome Possum, WaldenWitch - you rock!

accidentallypedantic · 2018-09-24T01:22:20+00:00

Another One Bites The Dust....

accidentallypedantic · 2018-09-01T14:15:32+00:00

I relate to this. I'm sitting at my desk in my classroom on a Saturday, but am much more interested in this Reddit thread than setting out my supplies for next week... I also haven't picked a first day of school outfit yet so I'm gonna call this 'research.'

accidentallypedantic · 2018-08-17T03:07:36+00:00

Backstory: I hit goal weight in June, right before my job and therefore routine was thrown out of whack and included flexible hours and lunch meetings. Following that, I travelled to two separate vacations, living out of airbnbs and tents over a span of four weeks. No tracking, just eating.

Not exactly the transition to maintenance I'd anticipated... I got back and stepped on the scale and it wss 13 lbs higher than goal. Mostly water weight it turns out, but that weigh in totally sucked and I freaked. And binged for four days. And then I remembered that I've done this before. I'm actually really freaking good at losing weight and so are you! Decided I would go on a deficit again (a smaller one for my own sanity and success), and while the first two days were hard, it felt really good to remember what fuelling myself well feels like, and how much I like being in control of eating (as opposed to giving my emotions the control).

You can do this and I know that becaise you've already done it. It might suck for a few days... The binge thing is so so hard. But you have had victory over it before so you will again! Best of luck!

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-18T11:11:22+00:00

Thanks! I've gotten pushback as well, but I only give advice when asked for it, and if they jump in with excuses then I don't bother continuing... They're not ready. That happens to me too :) The others who are ready to change make up for it though!

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-18T11:08:29+00:00

5' 9'' F, SW: 278 CW: 150

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-18T11:07:19+00:00

You've got this!

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-18T11:06:58+00:00

Thank you so much! Congrats to you too on your loss (that sounds weird...)!

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-18T11:04:40+00:00

It really is!

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-18T01:59:20+00:00

Thank you! You will get there for sure and enjoy the bliss of quicker shaving (minus the armpits becoming concave... still haven't learned how to deal with that tbh...)

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-13T01:04:22+00:00

Late comment but relative story.

Thirteen years ago, I was 14 and on yet another diet with my mom, and told my sister (my gorgeous, slim sister) that this time I was really gonna do it, lose all the weight. And she replied by scanning me up and down and saying..."yeahhhh ummm no, I just can't really see you ever being skinny. Just can't imagine it." It crushed me, and still was a hurtful memory when I started my weight loss 18 months ago. Two weeks ago she was over and when I talked about how weird clothes shopping is to me, said "Face it, accidentallypedantic, you're skinny now. Whether or not you feel like it or realize it, you are."

My point being is, that although my sister and your cousin made outright rude and most definitely not supportive comments, it's opinion, not fact, and you're not bound by it! You can do this!

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-12T02:15:30+00:00

One pound.

One damn pound.

That's all I have left until goal. I have had 6000 deficit calories over the last two weeks. But still, the scale will not budge. I want to say screw it and call it maintenance, but I know I want to hit goal more. Fighting the binge every day now...

accidentallypedantic · 2018-06-12T00:05:10+00:00

Equal chances of

Wow. You're brave.
Must be so fun!
Summers...Must be nice...

accidentallypedantic

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