I am tired of everything. I cannot stand know-it-all janitors, third graders and their teachers, or sixth graders with their attitudes. My assistant principal is pushing me to the brink of I-am-gonna-scream-if-she-observes-me-one-more-time and my feet hurt.
Besides that, I haven't played with my nieces and nephews in weeks, I can't keep track of what day it is and I keep burping up my lunch. It wasn't that good in the first place. (Gas station corn dog and tater babies. Fast and close, but not worth repeating.)
If ever I needed a vacation it is this week. The anticipation is almost worse than the wait. "It's almost Spring Break" I keep telling myself, "just a couple more weeks and you don't have to see any horrible children for 4 whole days." Of course, that does not count as a break, recess or vacation. ONLY four days, it's really only 2 days because the school isn't open on the weekends anyway.
So, I take a deep breath and remember that, "School is almost out, school is almost out" and then I find out that the School Board took away a week of my already pathetically short summer break so that the District Employees can have a longer Winter Recess. Que? Are you kidding me? 15 employees are more important than 5000 kids and 200 teachers? Oh, you know what text abbreviations I was thinking! I think mi cabeza just exploded with the injustice! (I am practicing Spanglish for Cozumel.)
So, now I am breathing heaviliy and thinking about the next thing I have to look forward to-The Cruise.
Aah, the cruise. Sunshine, flip flops, eating out every meal. Even the motion sickness, smell of people eating fish and canned soda can't ruin the Nirvana I find in those two words. No one trying to solve my problems, tell me what to do or rather how I could be doing better. And if they do I can tell them to "Shut Up!" without 26 classmates gasping and running to tattle on me for saying "bad words". Oy vay! and shoot me already!
Thank you Tim and Kym, for giving this tired music teacher something to look forward to and a refrain to repeat:
"The Cruise. The Cruise. The Cruise."
Ahh, I'm so sorry you had such a bad week. How awful that week must have been for you! It will get better. Just keep your eye on the ball and before you know it you'll get that vacation. What did I forget? Oh, hang in there! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Cindy for your kind words. I really needed some support to get through last week and again this week. This time of year is really awful-worse than the Holidays! And it only gets worse until school is out! ;)
ReplyDeleteThe Cruise. The Cruise. The Cruise. If you type it enough times, it starts to look like it's spelled wrong! Just think we're already a quarter of the way there, it will be here before you know it.
ReplyDeleteSERENITY NOW! Cruise later!
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