• Jennifer_Sekella
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      • In response to: "What's the one thing you're never gonna give up?" I am never going to give up my childlike innocence and sometime naivete. I like that I am always (or almost always) an optimist and don't cast aspersions.
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    • How I De-Stress

      • Reinventing the world so it's less stressful!


        Recent, present and future reading material

        I like to read YA fiction - I'm mostly stressed when I'm teaching and so over the summer I tackle adult books. I like to write a lot - letters, journal entries, et al. I like to do crosswords. And I like to go outside with the poodles or curl up in bed with the poodles and watch MASH dvds because you always know the good guy will win - like watching NCIS - the original, not LA.

      • answered by Jennifer_Sekella on 04/28/2012
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    • Wohoo!

      • Ah, the gift of writing...


        Writing on the Pont de l'Alma next to the scene of Princess Diana's death

        When I spent most of my summer of 2010 in the Eastern Virginia Writing Project, as a part of the NWP. I felt like I could write anything, that I had a well of ink inside of myself that I could draw from. I was supported and encouraged by my peers, and their encouragement only excited me more. Now I am desperate to get into another writing program again. I want to recapture that passion, vivacity, and creativity. And I will, soon...

      • answered by Jennifer_Sekella on 04/19/2012
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    • My Coworkers

      • Up to last year - before I went out on disability - I really enjoyed all of my coworkers. I felt like I had some people who knew me pretty well, but while I was out on disability, someone was bad-talking to me to teachers and administration and they all believed it. So, I have two friends and a couple of people with whom I'm friendly. It's been hell. I'm treated like I don't know anything about what I'm doing, and that's really frustrating, because I've been a teacher here for 5 years and a teacher in all, for 8 years. I also have my Masters from the College of William & Mary - not a cake walk, and am working on getting info on getting another MA at VCU in Richmond. I'm desperate to get a new job and get a second chance. I'm teaching at a different grade level this year - and the rumors about it being so ill willed and crazy are totally true. But, no one will listen to me try to say what we should be doing to be more effective. Ah, to heck with it, I guess.

      • answered by Jennifer_Sekella on 04/07/2012
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    • Fortune Telling

      • Rethinking the positive.


        Positive Thinker

        That's a tough one - I think I would, but only if I knew that they were going to give me positive things to focus on. I don't want to hear portends of gloom and doom - particularly after this year of unearthly he** at work. I even had to hire an attorney for the abuse I've been getting. So, yes, if I knew that they were going to look for the positives in my life. :)

        Jen

      • answered by Jennifer_Sekella on 04/07/2012
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    • Laptops and Coffee Shops

      • To write or not to write - the question is - is it your turn?


        Harry Potter

        I'd like to say no - because I've been in a coffee shop before and have needed to stay for a while - but yes, I think that they should. I've been in Starbucks where all of the seating was taken over by people with laptops - one seat for a woman's feet to be up - and that ticked me off! But, maybe, if there's room, then I'd let folks stay with their laptops - JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter at a coffee shop, after all!

      • answered by Jennifer_Sekella on 04/07/2012
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