Monthly Archives: October 2006

Just Baby

Today is a shitty day. I’m irritable and impatient and that isn’t ok with my kids. I yelled at 2nd period and told them I am tired of them blowing me off and ignoring me. I told them that if they aren’t going to bother to try, why should I give them lots of extra help? I had a bunch of kids not do what they were supposed to do as far as getting an id badge goes. I feel shitty and stupid and mean. I have one kid who left and hasn’t come back.

I feel terribly out of sorts and I don’t know how to get back on track.

Last night was hard for me. I don’t know how to handle the fact that you have a hatred of dressing up. I often feel like dressing up is more of a problem than anything else with/for you. I like to dress up. I like to feel sexy and desireable and quite frankly I frequently don’t. I know you want me, but I don’t see myself as someone who should be desired most of the time. So I dress up. And these days dressing up is turning into more hostility than not. I’m trying to feel sexy and fun because I need the shot of ego and you don’t want me to flirt or lead you on. You basically tell me that it feels bad to you. I’m not telling you that feeling that way is awful or not ok, I’m just saying that it is hard for me because I don’t know what to do with feeling so conflicted. I want you to want me to dress up, but that doesn’t seem to work.

I have to go. I have more to say, but I don’t have time right now.

Carry a big stick.

I am positively *gleeful* right now.

One of the other teachers in my department was gone Thursday and Friday and she is absent again today. On Friday the sub got fired for gross incompetence because the class was totally out of control. We have no sub plans for today. I called her and got an idea of what she wanted then filled in the blanks with other stuff I think is appropriate. (I teach the same class.)

I put an overhead up in my class telling my kids to come in quietly, get out their books, and continue from where we left off on Friday.

I then went to the other classroom, put the agenda on the board, and read the class the riot act for a few minutes about how their behavior was utterly unacceptable and if they get out of line today they will have a stack of referals waiting, calls to their parents, and detentions for weeks to come on top of an apology letter. I told them that they lost their talking privilege and if anyone said even one word they were to be sent to my room to await punishment.

The sub said the kids barely breathed all period. They did their work quietly and were very respectful when they talked to him.

And when I came back into my room my perfect angels were reading the play and everyone was following along and being great. *grin* And I get to do this two more times today. Apparently I don’t need those classroom management seminars I am going to later this week.

run run run flop run run run

My work week consists of running around like mad all week. Teaching, and prep work, and grading (which I’m not doing enough of), and meetings, and parent phone calls… it seems that the pace never lightens up. I’m exhausted like crazy by Friday.

Last Friday we were supposed to go see a play but as a result of not getting moving quickly enough and general crankiness, we stayed home instead. It turned out to be a good thing cause Noah is kind of sick and he needed the rest. We passed out by about 9:30. On Saturday I had another tattoo sitting but I only made it through about 30 minutes before I *lost* it. I just couldn’t be calm or rational. 🙁 We went home and spent the day in bed cause I was sick to my stomach all day. Of course we passed out by about 9:30. Sunday we soldiered our way through a gym trip despite being tired, borderline sick, and my back hurting. Sunday we ran a few errands and then flopped at home. We passed out by about 9:30.

Wow, we sound remarkably boring. Only it was awesome and wonderful. I loved the time I got to spend with my baby. We talked and talked and talked, often about hard/scary/painful things that we need to get through. We played and tried to map out a few more boundaries in our relationship. Resting and relaxing and cuddling together made not feeling so hot a pretty great thing cause it was an excuse to stay in bed. 🙂

I love my husband.

Random acts of kindness

A couple of months ago a guy from bondage.com sent me a flirtatious email and I had to let him know that I was involved and more or less off the market for what he was looking for. (He lives in LA and wants pretty strict monogamy.) Yesterday I got around to letting b.com know that I got married and he sent me an email saying congratulations and good luck.

Very random and sweet. People rock.