you know what??
i'm pissed off today.
it started last night when i was looking up hotel reservations for a time when i could go visit some people, but all the availability were on days that i worked, so that made me mad. then, for work, i was really looking forward to today b/c it was supposed to be an easy, relaxed day with the kids, but did it turn out that way? NO! everything that could go wrong did. i have never yelled with as much forcefull verbal command as i did today. we had a record number of kids--predominantly boys--and they all kept trying to get away with stuff just b/c they figured we couldn't catch all of them at once....jerks.
there were some older boys that weren't even apart of the program that stopped by today since we're a youth center, so we let them play some dodgeball with our kids for a while. but when they started abusing our equipment and throwing our balls over in the adjacent skate park, which isn't our property, i stopped the game, yelled at the older boys to go and retrieve our balls and leave.
Another kid kept twirling a pool stick around all throughout the day and i finally got so fed up with it that the final time i saw him do it, i told him to hand it over and that he had lost pool privileges for the rest of the day...he started crying and saying that he hadn't been doing anything, so i told him stop his whining cuz it wasn't going to get him anywhere. boo-frickin-hoo.
THEN, another girl decided to chuck a hard baseball at a kid's leg, which caused him to cry in pain--and he's a pretty tough boy. so, i immediately confiscated the ball and yelled at her to go sit alone inside. no one from the staff even so much as looked in her direction for a good 10 minutes because we do not tolerate that behavior. finally, i went up to her and asked if she was ready to apologize to the kid. she got up and went outside, but went in the opposite direction of him. i told her that she needed to apologize and her reply was "no, i don't want to, it's too embarrassing". so, more of my authoritative voice came out and responded with "you hurt him! don't you think that was embarrassing to him?" she paused and thought about that for a second and answered in a snotty tone, "no". so, more angry-ness on my part came out and i told her "you have two options: either apologize or go sit back down inside." needless to say, she went over and mumbled something, then glared at me for the last half hour of the day. finally when her dad came to pick her up, i did not hesitate in telling him what had happened and he wasn't too pleased with her, which made me slightly happy.
finally, to top the day off, one of the boys that is a good kid, and that i really like, had his bike stolen off our property. so, i filed an incident report and another father that knew his family offered to give him a ride home. apparently it was a new-ish bike too, so i just felt horrible for him--but he didn't have it locked up, so i guess you can't expect much else.
so yeah, my day pretty much sucked and was full of me being a reprimanding-b*tch for most of the day, which has now left me in a sour mood. why the crap am actually wanting to do this for a living???!!!
on the other side though, i got a letter from the university saying i made dean's list again, AND i finally heard back from the doctors after having that ultrasound for the lump i found, and the results didn't show anything suspicious to them, but told me that if my doctor recommended it, then i still may need a biopsy to determine conclusively if it's cancerous.
it started last night when i was looking up hotel reservations for a time when i could go visit some people, but all the availability were on days that i worked, so that made me mad. then, for work, i was really looking forward to today b/c it was supposed to be an easy, relaxed day with the kids, but did it turn out that way? NO! everything that could go wrong did. i have never yelled with as much forcefull verbal command as i did today. we had a record number of kids--predominantly boys--and they all kept trying to get away with stuff just b/c they figured we couldn't catch all of them at once....jerks.
there were some older boys that weren't even apart of the program that stopped by today since we're a youth center, so we let them play some dodgeball with our kids for a while. but when they started abusing our equipment and throwing our balls over in the adjacent skate park, which isn't our property, i stopped the game, yelled at the older boys to go and retrieve our balls and leave.
Another kid kept twirling a pool stick around all throughout the day and i finally got so fed up with it that the final time i saw him do it, i told him to hand it over and that he had lost pool privileges for the rest of the day...he started crying and saying that he hadn't been doing anything, so i told him stop his whining cuz it wasn't going to get him anywhere. boo-frickin-hoo.
THEN, another girl decided to chuck a hard baseball at a kid's leg, which caused him to cry in pain--and he's a pretty tough boy. so, i immediately confiscated the ball and yelled at her to go sit alone inside. no one from the staff even so much as looked in her direction for a good 10 minutes because we do not tolerate that behavior. finally, i went up to her and asked if she was ready to apologize to the kid. she got up and went outside, but went in the opposite direction of him. i told her that she needed to apologize and her reply was "no, i don't want to, it's too embarrassing". so, more of my authoritative voice came out and responded with "you hurt him! don't you think that was embarrassing to him?" she paused and thought about that for a second and answered in a snotty tone, "no". so, more angry-ness on my part came out and i told her "you have two options: either apologize or go sit back down inside." needless to say, she went over and mumbled something, then glared at me for the last half hour of the day. finally when her dad came to pick her up, i did not hesitate in telling him what had happened and he wasn't too pleased with her, which made me slightly happy.
finally, to top the day off, one of the boys that is a good kid, and that i really like, had his bike stolen off our property. so, i filed an incident report and another father that knew his family offered to give him a ride home. apparently it was a new-ish bike too, so i just felt horrible for him--but he didn't have it locked up, so i guess you can't expect much else.
so yeah, my day pretty much sucked and was full of me being a reprimanding-b*tch for most of the day, which has now left me in a sour mood. why the crap am actually wanting to do this for a living???!!!
on the other side though, i got a letter from the university saying i made dean's list again, AND i finally heard back from the doctors after having that ultrasound for the lump i found, and the results didn't show anything suspicious to them, but told me that if my doctor recommended it, then i still may need a biopsy to determine conclusively if it's cancerous.