Everyone in my house has something abdominal going on right now, although we don’t appear to all have the same thing and in my case I’m pretty sure it’s a medicine side effect. But it’s not exactly leading to the home front being a relaxed and peaceful place to be, what with a bunch of us being in various forms of pain and some of us occasionally needing to spill terrifying amounts of liquid from some orifice or another, often on short notice. I myself stayed home from work today, not because I was too sick to go in but because the precise kind of sick I am means that going to work, where I have to wait for the office to send me coverage in order to go to the bathroom, is an automatic no-go even if I feel absolutely fine 95% of the time. It’s my least favorite thing about teaching, the way we absolutely cannot leave these little crapweasels alone for any amount of time, or half of them will start having sex and the other half will start drinking alcohol and then some of them will set things on fire, possibly while drunk and fucking. And that’s before the fights start.

Sigh.

My classes this year are absolute hell on subs, too, which on the one hand I’m supposed to be professionally angry about and on the other hand what-fuckin’-ever, so long as none of them are dead at the end of the day and they don’t destroy any of my shit. I don’t know why these groups are so bad to outsiders; I’m certainly not having perfect days or anything but, halfway through the first quarter, so far as a whole this is one of my more manageable groups of kids. They just fall the hell apart when I’m not there, to the point where it’s going to start being difficult for the office to convince people to cover for me when I’m not at school.

(I am hoping to make it to November before I miss another day. I’ve already taken the election and the day after off as personal days, and there’s a four-day Fall Break in there, so hopefully I’ll be able to pull this off. Most of my missed time has been medication-related, which, again, annoys the hell out of me.)

Anyway, I’m going to go find a surface to wipe down with bleach. Stay away from norovirus, kids, it’s nasty.