Diary of an English Teacher

So once again I've gone for ages without posting anything here, which is partly because I've been clobbered by the start of another school year, but also because I've been writing about my school year thus far and posting it somewhere else.  I've tried this before, only to lose steam after the first few weeks, so I'm a little apprehensive about trying (and failing) again.  People have been telling me for years that I need to write about my teaching experiences, which seems like an easy thing for someone who is A) an English teacher and B) claims to be a writer of some sort.  But it's actually really hard for me to do and I have to fight a very strong reluctance each time I sit down to write about my job.  Maybe that's because it takes so much out of me as it is that I need some space from it--I need some chunk of my life to have absolutely nothing to do with teaching.  At the same time, though, I realize that it would be plain stupid for me not to ever write about and record some of the wonderful and awful craziness of my job, so I'm giving it another go.  If you'd like to have access to this blog, shoot me an e-mail so I can "invite" you.  It's a password protected site for obvious reasons...