I Stink

Literally. I smell. Just not bad.
You know how we joked about dousing ourselves in Lysol? I think I accidentally did. I bought the last two cans of scented Lysol last night at Target, but they were not my orange citrus cans. I sprayed the usual places this morning. And everywhere I went today I [...]

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So much for that

Teachers were standing in line to get the Swine Flu shot, but when they got to the front of the line, they were turned away. They were afraid of running out. So after all the memos and emails and letters home and permission slips returned, they didn’t know how many people were going to show [...]

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Oink, Oink

The Swine Flu has made it to my room. Guess who it is? Yep, Asthmatic. That kid can’t catch a break.
And I am totally skeeved out. I Lysoled his desk and the others around him til they were soaked, and I redid the whole room even though I had done it before I left [...]

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S.O.S. Code Blue Biohazard HELP!

After my second student threw up in the bathroom and a third went home with a fever, I sent this frantic message to my sister:
OMG! What time do you go to work? Can you bring some Lysol? Two kids just puked and a third went home sick, in addition to two already absent!!! Better yet, [...]

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Time Card 9/21 to 9/27

Monday: 11H 25
Tuesday: 8H 40
Wednesday: 8H
Thursday: sick day – planned on grading tests but ended up taking a 4-hour nap after my doctor’s appt and then spent 2 hours farming on FB
Friday: 10H 35 – I probably shouldn’t have gone back to school because my throat was so sore from talking! Oh well.
Saturday: 35m
Sunday: [...]

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Dropping like flies

I’ve had two students move already! CutiePie left in the middle of last week (she didn’t move far, just enough that she’s going to the school down the street) and another had his last day today. The girl was a major nudge, and I do not miss her at all. (She was the one who [...]

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Fifteen Days

I lasted fifteen days. I have never gotten sick so quickly. Usually it takes til the middle of October for my first sinus infection to kick in, but even then I don’t have to take off of work. I’m taking off tomorrow, and I have never written sub plans so fast. (I even considered photocopying [...]

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Student Teaching Journal: Day 2

August 10, 1999
Today went really well. I did a lot of teaching. In the morning I worked with P while the others did spelling. It was hard to keep him on task.

It took me a minute to remember who this kid is. And now I realize I am thinking of another kid with the same [...]

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Sugar Test

Maybe they’re crazy because there’s no sugar in school. They’ve been self-medicating all these years, so it’s like they’re off their meds!
AD/HD makes the chemicals in the body work backwards. That’s why Ritalin (which is Speed) works. Things that would make you or I high, like sugar or caffeine, brings them down. Just like [...]

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“teacher chronic stress”

Someone used those key words for a search on WordPress and found my blog. I had to laugh, because I was about to write a post about my twitching eye. I suppose a twitching eye is better than the pains in my neck, but somehow it’s more annoying. It feels like a huge [...]

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