When last we left our intrepid me, I was unceremoniously kicked out of my classroom. Feeling somewhat homeless, I contemplated moving a desk out into the hallway, but there seemed to be several drawbacks to that plan.
Two of our office staff quit recently, and so there were empty desks in the office. I worked from there during the first week of school, but they went and hired someone else. They said that it would be impolite not to give the new people desks.
Now, there are three computer labs at Lincoln Lutheran, and I could, in theory, have simply claimed one as my classroom. This seemed like a good solution except that I was, at least nominally, not teaching middle school math so that I could get more computery stuff done. It’s hard to get computery stuff done when students and teachers keep interrupting with things like classes.
So, there’s this closet in the Mac Lab. I wish I would have taken a before picture. Lauren called while I was cleaning it out and told me to take a during picture, but I had already spent a few hours working on it. I threw out a lot of computer stuff that I was saving “just in case”. And I made a couple of stacks of things that can just live out in the open for the time being.
It’s not a bad closet, and when I talk to students I get to say, “I’ll be in my closet. I mean Office.”