Feb 04, 2008 08:39
Right now I feel like a big ol' pile of human! It's just something about reading world news, getting extra sleepy, crawling into the futon with sugary, unbrushed teeth, rolling over and overreacting (loud) to how icy the other square centimeters of futon are. Then being preoccupied with thinking, man, if someone else were lying here, you wouldn't even need that halogen heater. Then, all the preoccupations that splinter off of that.
Since I started working here, there had been two male teachers who complimented me on my smile. One of them is sick at the moment, and the other got fired for allegedly embezzling funds from the after-school activity he ran. Today there was a third, during a pleasant, surprise cafeteria conversation. He'd better run now.
When I was young and got splinters all the time, I remember freaking out under the impression that if my mom didn't tweeze that sucker out, the splinter would lodge so deep into my finger that it would enter the bloodstream, float through limbs, and pierce a hole in my heart. Who the hell told me this??
Anyway, I'll try to hash through this spell before V-Day. I can feel the tides turning already. My rowdy class was eerily quiet today. Maybe they're not turning for the better, but they're doing something, if I can will them to.