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Bamagirl, I'm sorry to hear that you're in a job you dislike, too! I never knew how horrible it could be to have to force yourself to go into a job you don't enjoy every single day. Thank you for the good wishes. I hope you find a job that's better for you, too!!
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Shannon, I didn't know you were a sped, either! What grades do you teach? I guess it isn't so much my district's view of sped as much as the way things have been done there for a long time. For instance, I don't do any pushing into regular ed classes. The only thing I do is pull the kids out for resource room, which leaves me totally isolated from what they're doing in their classes. I tried to talk to my coworker, who has worked in that school for a long time, about the benefits of instituting push in, but she was totally against it and pretty much refused to dicuss it. As if that weren't bad enough, the teachers are horrible at communicating with the sped dept. I started using a new contact sheet that I send out every two weeks to get feedback from the teachers, but half of them don't send it back. There's a lot more to it than that, but that gives you an idea, at least.
I will certainly e-mail you with more details if you're interested, although don't feel that you need to listen to my venting, lol. It will probably be early next week before I get a chance, though. I'm going out with my mother today and have to drive back up north tomorrow. 
A day at the spa... that sounds sooooo nice. I'm going to have to look into that...
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Hi Jen, thanks for the GERD advice. Yes, I am trying to do all those things, but I will certainly go to those websites and see what they list as causing acid. I'll probably be surprised, too!
That's a good idea about breaking my 4 months down into smaller amounts of time. It gives new meaning to the song that says, "everybody's working for the weekend", doesn't it? 
I'm actually in Clayton, which is the next town to the west of Alex Bay. So you didn't have a great A Bay experience, eh? Lol. What time of year did you go there? The Bay is beautiful in the summer, but in the off seasons it's completely and utterly dead. Clayton isn't quite that bad, luckily... there are usually cars in the streets downtown year round, which can't always be said for the Bay. But it's still just too far away from a major city for me, especially when I need to get all the "special foods" for my IBS!
Thanks for the positive vibes!
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Good girl. Keep up with the positive attitude. Keep your focus on the kids. Help the kids the best you can. Everything else is "fluff". So get a broom and sweep it into the garbage where it belongs.
Kids are the reason you're there. Keep that focus.
Hugs, Alicia.
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Ours was run in as a drop in centre. There was a book in the spec ed room, and slots and times to sign kids in. They could be signed in for up to 1/2 a period. They were expected to bring the work with them. For example, a math teacher would go and sign in certain students for a certain half period when they were in math class. They would then get their assignment, and come down to resource and we would help them with it.
It worked great. We also accepted ones that weren't pre signed in, as long as we weren't totally booked up. We set the limit generally at 4 - 5 kids per teacher/educational assistant. So max we would be helping about 15 - 20 kids per half period. That's a lot of kids through the day - but it really worked well. Of couse, we'd see the same student for more than one subject. The hard cores were allowed up to 2 full periods a day. The really hard working students, well, we didn't send them away if it was more.
The teachers loved it, because the kids got 1 on 1 on material that they needed help with from their class, and the teacher didn't have to spend as much time helping them within the class setting.
The kids loved it, as they got a break from class, and were able to focus and get help they needed. It really built a lot of self esteem. I LOVED working with a group of kids of 4 or 5 at a time from a class. They'd bring their assignment and away we'd go.
PLUS - what you worked on in resource was DIRECTLY from the teachers and the class which kept you connected, ya know???
Let me know what you think.
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We went in late May. (This is a bad time to go on a honeymoon, I guess, because wherever we went the weather was either totally freezing or totally hot and muggy -- crazy!) It was totally freezing that day. Misty and rainy and gray, just a miserable day, and the town looked so horrible and rundown. When we made our reservations the only nice-looking hotel we could find didn't have any free rooms, so we ended up at "the Bonnie Castle Resort". OMG! This place was horrible! The bathroom looked like it hadn't been cleaned since people liked Ike. The mattress was only slightly more comfortable than your average sheet of plywood. It was so cold we turned on the heat, and it smelled just awful, like something very hairy had just met a horrible death in the vents. I don't remember the name of the place where we went out to dinner, but it was very expensive and the food was awful. I ordered lasagna and I got a soup bowl swimming with watery tomato sauce with a few tough rubbery noodles and some very strange mysterious chunks of meat floating around. I don't remember what my husband got but it was terrible too. The bill was like over $60 and we had mainly just eaten the bread that came with dinner. We couldn't wait to leave.
What we didn't understand was how the town could be that horrible -- like you said, it was beautiful (even with the ugly weather). Good thing Louisa Boldt died young and didn't have to see what happened to the area.
We fell in love with the playhouse at Boldt Castle, though. Someday when I am rich and famous I will build a house just like it -- WAY far away from Alexandria Bay. 
Well, anyway, I hope you start to feel better. Being miserable in general is a thousand times worse when you feel cruddy physically. I am kind of a hypocrite because I just quit my job so am not actually doing the struggle-to-cope-thing anymore (well, I've got two more days left) -- but, I did find it really helpful to give myself small treats to look forward to. i.e. a new song off iTunes, a good book to read, something yummy to eat, a new episode of "Lost", whatever. That way at least some of the "how am I ever going to get through this day" thoughts are replaced by the thought of something nice waiting for you. I guess my situation is a little different because I do really like my job and co-workers, it's just health-wise it's become impossible to carry on. I guess it's the whole "distraction with a shiny object" thing.
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