it's been a long time...
My poor, neglected journal! I haven't posted anything in at least three months and tonight, I'm mostly on to bitch.
We got to school this morning--rain coming down in buckets--to find that the district server was down. OK, so no internet, no e-mail, no big deal, even if it's a pain in the butt. Ah, but there's more. we also were without clocks in our classrooms, bells for the end of recesses and lunch, heat and fans and about half our classroom and office phones. To add to the misery, a skunk got under one of the portable classrooms last night (probably trying to get out of the rain) got startled and SPRAYED. The smell inside the room was so bad that the class had to relocate to the library, which ajoins my room and has a connecting door. All of the students' books, which they brought with them, had been in the room when the skunk had his episode smelled skunky. Now the main office, nurse's office, staff workroom, staff lunchroom and staff bathrooms smell like skunk too. The cherry on top of this sundae of misery, confusion and bad smell was the discovery that we have an outbreak of head lice, so we had a parade of kids into the office all day, getting their heads checked or waiting for their parents to come and take them home to clean their heads.
Tomorrow has to be better; at least it's not supposed to rain.
We got to school this morning--rain coming down in buckets--to find that the district server was down. OK, so no internet, no e-mail, no big deal, even if it's a pain in the butt. Ah, but there's more. we also were without clocks in our classrooms, bells for the end of recesses and lunch, heat and fans and about half our classroom and office phones. To add to the misery, a skunk got under one of the portable classrooms last night (probably trying to get out of the rain) got startled and SPRAYED. The smell inside the room was so bad that the class had to relocate to the library, which ajoins my room and has a connecting door. All of the students' books, which they brought with them, had been in the room when the skunk had his episode smelled skunky. Now the main office, nurse's office, staff workroom, staff lunchroom and staff bathrooms smell like skunk too. The cherry on top of this sundae of misery, confusion and bad smell was the discovery that we have an outbreak of head lice, so we had a parade of kids into the office all day, getting their heads checked or waiting for their parents to come and take them home to clean their heads.
Tomorrow has to be better; at least it's not supposed to rain.