It is like a mad race to try to leave this school year with some sanity. I will say this-my kids are holding it together well. They haven't gone nuts and are actually being calm. The adults are the ones testing my wits right now and making me hang by a thread to the last bit of sanity I attempt to have. List of things agging (short for agitating) me at the moment:
1. The list of things I have to do to earn my freedom on that last day. I joke and call them my emancipation papers, stating that I have to go on a scavenger hunt to get them all signed before I can be a part of the free world again. That in itself is a list of annoyances.
2. Seeing a yellow Hummer parked outside our school everyday this week. First of all, it's a low SES school. Why are we rolling in a Hummer, but eating free or reduced lunch?
3. Administrators with short attitudes. Not all of them, just the one I had it out with today over a dumb cumulative folder picture....
4. Begging people to do things that they know good and well that they should do without my prompting. Again, referring to people well over the age of 10.
5. Being delegated jobs that shouldn't be mine to start off with, and then being told to fit other things in my schedule because it wouldn't kill me.
6. All the gossip about next year-the lack of clear answers.
7. KIS yet again beating my class to lunch. The comedic part was when the secretary asked why she managed to beat my class.
8. That damn list again. I am sorry, but now I hate goldenrod paper. And Cumulative Folder Pictures. Yeah.
9. Finding random pictures of myself on the school shared server that I didn't approve.
10. Packing.
11. School email-I am so over it.
12. Finding things that belonged in FOSS kits that I have long since turned in to the district. Yeah, it gets more and more awesome.
13. Running into former students at Target while in non-teacher mode and then trying to hide in the lawn care section. The crazy part is that I am transitioning my hair (meaning I am going from having it in a perm to a natural style) and that my boy saw me in one of my more natural styles, i.e. not one like I had in school 5 hours ago. It is a very different style from my school one, and only one friend has seen it on a regular basis. That boggled his mind. I will now have to go with my story about my sister. You know, the one I am going to sporadically make up.
I need to go turtle... I am trying to survive, but things keep popping up. I literally feel like I am barely hanging on.. But on the bright side, one of my new teammates brought me a UT t-shirt with an embroidered longhorn (that had bluebonnets in its mouth) as a token of friendship and welcome. We both graduated from UT, and will be teaching Texas History, so I appreciated the gift. We hugged and I almost teared up...or maybe it was that damn list making me tear. Sigh. I guess we will never know.