Today is a wacky day. I don’t have “wacky” days very often. Kids are in massive trouble left and right way over my head. One of my girls has a warrant out for her arrest. 🙁 I’m sad that I sent her to the office right before the parole officer arrived to pick her up. I wish I had told her to run. People calling my class to interrupt and find out if I still have oranges. WTF PEOPLE!!! I’M BLOODY TEACHING!!! Then, when I come in from dealing with drama with a kid outside the class turns into, “Are you pregnant?” “No. I’m not pregnant, I’m fat. Get over it.” “Are you sure? You look pregnant.” !!! WTF!!! And I responded (very loudly) “I am NOT PREGNANT.” I said this loud enough that the teacher in the next room thought it would be funny to call and say, “My class would like to know if you are pregnant.” This is my buddy. I hung up the phone and yelled, “I hate you!” His room busted out laughing.
I think my phone rang a total of 6 times in one period. The kids never shut up. I finally made the biggest talker take a lap. They so got on my nerves. And settling down into 7th period has been a nightmare. I am so keyed up.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
And now Marcie thinks it’s funny to ask me if I am pregnant. NOT FUNNY.
I thought schools were the last bastion of politcal correctness
Since when is it OK to publically ask a woman if she’s pregnant?
(that’s the kind of thing to pull someone aside and ask privately, *if* you have the kind of relationship where the woman might choose to answer the question… The truly appropriate thing to do is wonder quietly and wait for an official announcement.)
It’s inappropriate interpersonal or business behavior, and it’s particularly inappropriate for a teacher to behave that way in front of students.
If you started whispering “sexual harassment lawsuit” maybe then they’d shut up.
I know, that’s heavy-handed. But damn….
…must…resist…comment…of…DOOM….
You will never be allowed to comment again if you ask.
Just so you know.
*changes his mind*
It’s possible that some of it is the whole hormonal birth control thing. It really *does* mess significantly with your overall body shape, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the changes are oddly reminiscent of pregnancy.
Though that wouldn’t be a recent change, either. Dunno.
Some days they are like this. Tommorrow will likely be different.
I’m hoping a week from now you can come back and read this entry and see how adorably funny you are.
Cause you are.
XOO
The whole week has been like that up here. Every classroom and clinic I worked with, every teacher and SLP I talked to, the kids – and half the families too – have all been petty, grumpy, pissy, and damned annoying. I was grumpier than usual for longer than usual too, same as all the teachers I talked to. I started saying I wish the kids would just blow up and have tantrums already, so they could stomp it off and get it overwith.
Best we could come up with here was a slow-moving weather front & change in barometric pressure. After a week of this, today I’m finally feeling better, and noticing changes in some of my co-workers as well.