2 Days To Go

Well, that’s if you count today, which I guess is already over. So, in reality, 1 day to go. Sheesh.

Tomorrow is going to be a long day. I have to be at the school by 7:30 am and will be there until 6:00 pm at the earliest. Tomorrow night is “Meet the Teacher Night.” Parents and students can come to the school and check out their student’s room and, well, me. This is very informal - I only have to say hello and be pleasant. In a couple of weeks is the Open House which is a bit more stressful.

In other news, we had our last in service (although I didn’t get a certificate for it, like I did for the Math thing). I feel one of life’s great ironies is that teachers make the worst audiences. I swear, it seemed like they just would NOT be quiet. When the instructor was talking, you could always hear 2 or 3 side conversations going on. At the very least, you would think they could whisper! I find it supremely annoying.

The thing is that I know it’s not strictly MY problem. If it doesn’t bother the instructo, it shouldn’t bother me, right? But bless it, it does. I think it’s rude. It’s like people think what ever they are talking about is more important than anything else going on. And I have trouble filtering out those conversations. Which makes it even more annoying.

You might think that would mean I have a low tolerance for noise in my classroom, but that’s not necessarily so. Of course, I do have a rule that if I’m talking, no one else should be. But if they’re working and need to say something to their neighbor, they can whisper. As long as they aren’t disrupting others or interrupting ME, I’m okay.

I was supposed to get my computer today. The tech flagged me down in the hall to inform me that my computer was toast. I wish I had remembered to write down what kind he had said it was, I know it sounded old. Anyhow, he said that they tried replacing the hard drive but that didn’t help (I could probably have told him that). So I’m getting a “new” one. I put that in quotation marks because I don’t know what “new” means in this instance. I don’t know if it means brand spankin’ new, or dug-out-of-a-pile-and-still-older-than-dirt-but-new-to-me. Moving on, the tech told me that I would have said new computer this morning, but that never happened. I’m hoping he meant tomorrow morning. I just want a computer that works! Is that too much to ask?

In tomorrow’s episode: I meet parents of my first group of students/victims.

Oh, and my categories thing doesn’t appear to be working - I can’t choose a category. The dang thing tells me the database is corrupted. I don’t know how to fix it. Will look into it later.