As per usual

[lagoddessa]

We're back from Hurricane Rita. I started back to school Monday and Tuesday for teacher days and the kids came back Wednesday. I really missed them. Most of them. The school administration has been really great. At the faculty meeting, the principal said that we're all a family and what's important to us is important to them, so if we have to meet with insurance or roofers, etc we can take care of that. And we should be compassionate to our students as far as grades go. I figured my grades and there's one I'm struggling with. I think I might just go ahead and pass him, because he's working hard, and I did cook up a lot of grades. I still have a few days to decide. Anyhow. I enjoy my two white day classes that I didn't like before. They have personality. And I know they're not ever going to be the perfect classes I want them to be, but I can meet them where they are and help them to get where they need to be. 6th period today was so good I wanted to cry. I couldn't have asked for a better class. I did my lecture, then they worked on their worksheets, and I walked around to help. They wanted to get into groups, and I said as long as they stayed on task I didn't mind and they did. Even my slacker dudes paired up in the back with their book and tried to work things out. And I got a better feeling walking around what they got and what they didn't. So 6th was good. 7th is rambunctious. They're really my problem class, but even they were pretty good today. They worked on their worksheets. It took more to keep them on task, but the girl off task knows that there are consequences and she'll fail. But whatever. Nice girl, not evil, just ADD or something. I don't know. I am happy to be back. One of the boys in that class said that I was smiling more and that I never smiled. I said I was just glad to be back. There's a big mix in that class. They keep trying to lede me off topic, but I'd make a great politician, I'm always on message. "Do you believe in evolution" I know they learn a lot by those kinds of discussions, but I'm a first year teacher and we haven't gotten to that lesson yet. Is it bad that I don't have a pat answer for that. I don't know how to answer it yet, so I just said "Can we please just stay on topic for now?" They said they had another teacher in 8th grade and it was really easy to lead him off task. Introduce a topic and he'd talk about it for the rest of the class. I can't talk that much. Maybe I haven't been at this long enough, or what, but I'm not a good storyteller and I don't talk a lot. My mentor talked me through some new examples to give to my classes and some worked. Others I can't explain well. I need more practice. She's a right-brained person, and that's how she learns, so she's got a story for everything. That's also why she's behind in her classes, but we all have our strengths and weaknesses. 8th period just hates me. One of the girls that I got a phone call from mama earlier in the year was complaining that she didn't understand and that the notes were too confusing. That's not a question. I can answer her question, I can't answer her whining. It's irritating. I'm sure there are nice kids in that class, it's just the little bitches that ruin it. They suck all the fun out of it for me. Maybe I can get the counselor to move them at semester. But that's still two months away. Yesterday was good. 1st period got my lecture, hallelujah. TAKS were pretty quiet. 3rd was holy hell and they think they're going to run my class, but they're not. I made a new seating chart for them and I'm about to crack down. I realized my carrot lab I want to do next week has to sit overnight, so I'll get white to set up the day before for purple, then get purple to set up the day before for white, that way everyone has to set up and everyone has a chance to gather the data.
Elo went to the psychiatrist and finally went to get his prescription filled. He hasn't been doing much around the house and I don't know if he plans on going into work or not. Frustrating for me. I don't know what to do to help.
I did have my first orgasm during sex the other night. That was a real cause for celebration. Of course it was all me doing the work, but still. Nice.
We worked the concession stand at the football game the other night. It was good. Easy money.