venteration

Here's a quick run-down of my day:

1. Begin work with a meeting, which is interrupted for...

2. A student intervention that requires administrators and a police officer, which makes me...

3. Late for class (so I literally RUN upstairs) and am immediately informed that...

4. A parent is about to stop by and drop in on my class that already has 4 pair of supervisory eyes, so I proceed to bumble through my lesson for the day until it is time to...

5. Eat lunch, when I realize that I underestimated my hunger and reach for my afternoon snack...and a cookie...and two chocolates, all of which help to perk me up until I am informed that...

6. I will be attending a full day training tomorrow and must have sub plans ready to go, so I race up to my room and begin to type furiously, but still don't manage to finish by 3:45 when I absolutely have to...

7. Go home and take the dog for the shortest walk ever before digging through the laundry (I won't tell you if it was clean or dirty) for something to wear to class and throwing - yes, throwing - the essential spiral and ballpoint pen in my backpack and...

8. Heading to class in the middle of a storm, which reaches its apex right about the time I...

9. Park my car in a foot of water and wade the half mile to class, where...

10. I listen to my professor speak at a rate of approximately one word per minute for three hours as I shiver in my chair and try not to notice that my socks are wet and will only get wetter when I...

11. Splash through puddles to get back to my car and drive the hour long trip back home, where...

12. I get an email from my apartment manager saying my downstairs neighbor can hear me stomping around and running my washing machine at 2 am.  Um, hello!  I weigh 87 pounds, keep the hours of a grandma, and the ratio of the days that I wear dirty clothes to the days that I wear clean clothes is about 8:1.

I need a Shirley Temple...and apparently some moon shoes!