Well my sub was a real freak, or as my friend Joanne said...a lulu head! I was out for two days for a training (actually three, but Friday I had a good sub). This chick let my students move their desks, assigned her own homework and basically did anything she could not to have to work. Hello--sub does not = playtime! So now I'm pretty much ( Read more... )

Today was yet another one of those days ( Read more... )

When aren't they when you work as a teacher?! I've got a sore throat that is driving me crazy...by the end of the day I was like forget it, I can't talk. Too bad my class doesn't know ASL or I would have been using it all afternoon. Going to drink some hot tea and honey tonight and hopefully *fingers crossed* I will feel better ( Read more... )

The above icon is essentially how I felt the whole time I was in SDC last year (Sept.-Nov.) It was my own personal Hell...I cried every day at work...I used almost all my personal time in the first two months BEFORE my dad was diagnosed with cancer. Once he was diagnosed and hospitalized for a time I took leave...I absolutely could not stay in ( Read more... )

This is what happens when I can't sleep....for TWO nights in a row...the dreaming insomniac is back ( Read more... )

Well, this is what happens when I leave my class to a sub...they are using tickets (what we use for bathroom passes and prizes) to sell pencils (my classroom pencils mind you) and Grand Theft Auto (with an over 17 rating...quite 4th grade appropriate don't you think?) I confiscated the pencils and threw the video game away...tomorrow I'm starting ( Read more... )

Somewhere I got bit by something...I'm assuming a spider. The bite I originally thought was a pimple, but it's definitely doing the red-circle bite thing and itches like crazy. And it's on my chest so pretty much it's going to show quite brilliantly tomorrow at work...27 kids asking me what is wrong and did I get bit, yea ( Read more... )

This week has been interesting to say the least ( Read more... )

My icon is my mood in general in class today...gotta love 3 day weekends ( Read more... )

Ugh, when you get a sub for your class you never know what's going to happen. Now usually I get the res. sub, Ms. Romano who is a dream. The students like her, she follows the lesson plans and gets everything done. Well I got some sub I'd never heard of who not only didn't follow the lesson plans but stole something from me ( Read more... )