Nothing but unwise ideas and shit I shouldn’t write down in my head tonight, so I’m gonna sign off early and play Veilguard. Last teaching day of 2024 tomorrow; the rest of the week is basically babysitting.
Tag: tired
Taking the night off
It’s 7:30 and somehow I haven’t had dinner yet and my brain is melty and I’m hungry enough that I’m going to transition into angry soon if I don’t do something about it, so I’m going to cross “write a coherent blog post” off my to-do list tonight in favor of keeping myself alive. G’night.
Tomorrow
I get to spend my entire day tomorrow giving my students standardized tests, and I mean that literally– every single one of my classes, all day, except for my 30-minute lunch, which is going to be delayed a bit from its usual time because of Reasons. I will have to read several pages of instructions six times and ask over a hundred and thirty students “Do you have a cell phone?” and hope none of them are lying to me, because I get to catch all the bullshit from everybody if we have to invalidate a test.
You’ve all heard the rants before; I’m tired and I don’t wanna. I’m going to predict my sixth-hour kids have the worst test scores I’ve ever seen, though, because giving a standardized test at the end of the day is fucking professional malpractice.
And then Thursday the process will repeat, with the ELA teachers giving their half of the test, and I’ll be in my classroom instead, trying to figure out how to keep the bastards busy and quiet for class periods that are ten or so minutes longer than usual. I’m thinking color by numbers. I’m already pre-annoyed by Thursday behavior issues that haven’t even happened yet– that ten minutes don’t sound like much but they’re going to be. My current ability to tolerate bullshit, as well as the ability of the other adults in the building, is calibrated for 53-minute blocks. There will be a lot of damn referrals during the last ten minutes of class over the next couple of days.
Also, I just ate about two thousand calories of deep dish pizza, and it was a bad idea.
The end.
Sorry, nobody home
I have spent all day, other than a brief run to the county solid waste department to get a ton of cardboard recycled, sitting in the same chair, trying my hardest to not fall asleep and mostly failing. I’m honestly kind of amazed that I managed to make it out of the house before noon, to say nothing of the effort required to break down all the boxes, because there has been nothing in the tank since then. We’re going to Michigan tomorrow for Thanksgiving The First, of possibly as many as four, and five hours in the car is going to do me in regardless. If I was smart I’d get my lesson planning done; I was smart enough already to make sure that I didn’t bring any grading home this weekend, so I don’t have that to worry about.
I would like everyone to know that I did not watch IU lose their football game today, so you don’t get to blame me for it. My wife suggested yesterday that we watch it, and I think even the bare mention of me paying attention to college football again led to the loss. I apologize to all those who are suffering.
Here’s how today went
I told my principal and my assistant principal today that I was going to be instantly writing up any student who I heard say the word “fuck” tomorrow, and that they should expect fifty or sixty referrals by the end of the day.
Both of them told me to go for it.
*cracks knuckles*
UPDATE: I need sleep and video games
and someone needs to figure out a way I can do both at the same time. It was actually a pretty good day, but I’m thoroughly tapped out nonetheless. Be good to each other.
In which the streak is broken
21 years teaching, and today was the first time I had to make a CPS referral.
Second long week of the week.
In which I am behind
I was hoping to have another book review ready for you today, but in order to have that written I’d have to have finished the book, and instead I’m maybe 40% of the way through it. Today was an eleven-hour day since I had to stick around to help out with a soccer game, and so I’m certainly not going to be finishing the book before writing a post, which sort of leaves me without a ton of material.
.. and my computer’s just informed me that it’s going to restart in 45 seconds to install system updates, so … see you tomorrow? Sure.