First time caller long time listener

Okay that's not really true, but this is my first time publishing on the web for the interested, indifferent or just plain bored person scoping out the lives and insights of others. I have never been much at journaling, keeping a diary, or other forms of written self expression even though I like writing...Bear with me while I figure out who I want to be on this blog.

Could you figure out the teacher thing? I love teaching, it's almost as much fun as "hanging out with friends" but there are also challenges in each day. Take yesterday, I was at a high school in my home town working for a teacher that I have subbed for before. Five classes of high school math.

You think your life is difficult? Try being a student with a graphing calculator in one hand and a book asking you to figure out the angles of a parallelogram that has been bisected through the opposite corners and all the information you have is two angles and one side. SOHCAHTOAH ! That is code for how to figure out various angles and length of sides of a right triangle. Please don't ask me when you will ever need to know that outside your trigonometry class! First time I saw this mnemonic device, I wondered why the students were studying about some obscure native American tribe. Go figure ~

Blessings on your day!