{"id":461,"date":"2008-01-06T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=461"},"modified":"2008-01-06T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T13:26:20","slug":"its-four-oclock-in-the-morning-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Four Oclock In The Morning &#8211; Dammit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"It%26%23039%3Bs%20Four%20Oclock%20In%20The%20Morning%20-%20Dammit%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, 417 to be exact. I woke up about an hour ago and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep. It&#8217;s partly from the chicken burrito I ate last night &#8211; no need to say more &#8211; but it&#8217;s mostly about the HUGE change that is about to occur in my life. Monday morning, my life changes, completely, irreversibly. I start the final step in the process of becoming a high school history teacher &#8211; I start my student teaching. For those not familiar with the world of education, student teaching is much like an apprenticeship, where you serve under a master teacher and learn the skills of the art of teaching. I have been a substitute teacher for a year, and I have learned a lot about classroom management, but this will be different. As a Sub, you are kind of a fill-in, where most of the hard work, such as lesson preparation, has been done for you. Now I will, in a couple of weeks, become responsible for producing lesson plans that meet all the criteria of the California state standards, grading assignments, being a psychologists, nurse, and everything else that goes with the job of teaching.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m making alot of sense or describing my thoughts on this subject as well as I normally could &#8211; it is four in the morning after all. But I&#8217;ll do the best I can. My mood lately has been a see saw, where at one point, the logical part of my personality knows I will do fine, as I don&#8217;t start teaching for a couple of weeks, and will have plenty of time to get up to speed. Then there are other times where the mystery of this new unknown adventure on which I am about to embark becomes almost overwhelming. Usually my dreams don&#8217;t seem to have squat to do with my daily life &#8211; kinda like the time I dreamt (is that a word?) I was shot and killed on the Mexican border for trying to smuggle fine imported Italian spaghetti across the border, and then came back to life as a cartoon dog! I don&#8217;t know; I can&#8217;t explain; my brain is a mystery to me too!!! Anyway, tonight&#8217;s episode made more sense, what little I can remember of it. I awoke with lasting image of having to cross a fifty foot chasm, one hundred miles deep, on a flimsy looking bridge made of nothing but toothpicks! However, I&#8217;m not sure or can&#8217;t remember what business Don Henley had being there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"It%26%23039%3Bs%20Four%20Oclock%20In%20The%20Morning%20-%20Dammit%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Well, 417 to be exact. I woke up about an hour ago and couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep. It&#8217;s partly from the chicken burrito I ate last night &#8211; no need to say more &#8211; but it&#8217;s mostly about the HUGE change that is about to occur in my life. Monday morning, my life changes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}