{"id":3398,"date":"2004-06-22T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/teacher-works-4\/"},"modified":"2004-06-22T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:41:48","slug":"teacher-works-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/teacher-works-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survived yesterday.  I am convinced though that I turned down my temp basal instead of up, but have not proof.  I have asked Animas yet again, to provide that information.<\/p>\n<p>By surviving, my weight is less than it was yesterday morning, and my blood sugar was at 108.  Kind of wish I&#8217;d switched to the exercise basal, and I really had time to walk even though I didn&#8217;t but I am having heel spur problems.<\/p>\n<p>I can always walk afterwards anyway.  And I probably need an off day after the 55 minute walk yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>On the friend&#8217;s job &#8212; well, she took the SS early retirement.  Which I am very much against, it never should have been available anyway.  I&#8217;ve never really understood the whole thing, but she ends up with $827 more a month, and supposedly can get her job back.  Supposedly they have to post it.  Okay, right now, I&#8217;m not believing much of what she says since she spent so much time and energy lying to me, and what was the point?  It really wasn&#8217;t nice to freak me out like I was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t change.  The things I like about my job are staying the same.  The things that bother me, change and always do.  I like the neighborhood kids.  I would even consider living in that neighborhood, if it wasn&#8217;t in Dallas, and didn&#8217;t have Dallas services and politics.  We live in a suburb with a less than 5 minute response time on emergency services, and a city council who runs things and doesn&#8217;t drive people nuts.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, but when I really analyze what is going on, it gives me more time in the classroom and more time to concentrate on what matters.  Teaching 5 preps &#8212; the norm for me &#8212; is hard.  One class never gets my attention.  6 was worse, two didn&#8217;t.  I&#8217;ll be down to 3 preps, and I will be able to spend lots of energy on PreAP which is where I should concentrate.  A good PreAP program will make a really strong AP program which is what people want.<\/p>\n<p>I get paid pretty well for a teacher.  I consistently take home $45000 a year, and may top that this year.  I get lots of time off, after this workshop, I&#8217;ll actually have summer &#8212; I still have 2 days of staff development in July, but I understand most of that is on line.<\/p>\n<p>They are paying for a master&#8217;s degree and I&#8217;ll have the majority of that work done soon.  The classes I&#8217;m taking are pretty easy, more paperwork than anything.  Most of that is online too.  <\/p>\n<p>So why change?<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m going to walk in and turn up the basal to 20% (not down) and test all day.  And get through another workshop day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survived yesterday. I am convinced though that I turned down my temp basal instead of up, but have not proof. I have asked Animas yet again, to provide that information. By surviving, my weight is less than it was yesterday morning, and my blood sugar was at 108. Kind of wish I&#8217;d switched to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}