School Counselor Work

More caffeine please.

This is my life right now. SEE MY WATER, THOUGH???? But, serious, though. There’s not enough caffeine in the world for me right now. Graduation week is ridiculous.  And we have two ceremonies.  Baccalaureate and the actual graduation ceremony. Baccalaureate was last night.  It didn’t end until 9pm (after I’d been working since 7am) and …

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Devon Work

IT’S FRIDAY!!

Okay, maybe not for the majority of the world.  But my school was rewarded with a Bishop’s Day tomorrow (I don’t know why or how we got it, but I’m not complaining) so we’re closed when all other schools are open. So my life is essentially this: And a little bit of this: Well, I …

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School Counselor Work

Master’s Degree

I’m so upset. I wrote this whole long post about how I feel as a counselor since Timehop reminded me that I graduated with my Master’s Degree three years ago today. But, it’s disappeared.  It told me it posted. But…it didn’t. It’s no where to be found. If it shows up, I’ll delete this.  But….sadness. …

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School Counselor Work Work Stuff

Social Media Bomb

I don’t think I will ever find a way to correctly express to “young” people that social media isn’t always a good thing. Maybe the kids here finding out that we’re taking a student to the board for disciplinary action as a result of some of her Instagram posts will help. It probably won’t though. …

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Life Work Work Stuff

Back to reality

Spring Break was nice and all…but…I guess it’s over now. I came back to about 50 emails (not counting random spam) and 5 voicemails to respond to.  Not bad. It could have been worse, I guess. I’ve already had kids in an out of my office all morning. Admittedly, I didn’t do a lot of …

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