Re: Wide-Awake Wednesday
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:24 pm
Oh my goodness, I am tired.
I think I told y'all my computer has been on the blink at school. Well, I got it back today. Well -- got my old hard drive back in a new case w/a new motherboard. Let's hope this works.
The great majority of my day was spent transferring stuff from laptop to external hard drive to new desktop. * sheesh *
Spent the first of my two "free periods" with this & proofreading what students had typed already.
Spent the second of my two "free periods" eating my lunch -- two hours late -- and getting things straightened up while students typed more.
3:00 -- LONG faculty meeting -- in which many things were discussed which made me slightly uneasy, but which will most likely not come to pass...
Then went back to my room sometime after 4:00 and worked till 5:30. * whew *
I called dparents when I started out the front door, in the darkness, you know... partly just so I'd have someone on the phone in case I got knocked in the head or something. I think I was the very last person out of the building except the basketball coach & his players, and basketball practice was on the other side of the building from me. I was sooo glad ddad answered the phone, b/c I like for him to know that teaching is not just an 8-3 job that leaves me with all this leisure time to be at everyone's beck and call.
* Our school is not in a bad neighborhood or anything, and we've never had any sort of violence that I can recall -- other than the typical student fights every now & then -- but a few years back, there was a really terrible incident in our district, involving a teacher after-hours, and it has made us all a bit more wary of working late alone.
Anyway -- dparents did NOT need anything from me.
I went to the bank, home, and then went out to eat w/dh & ds. Ddil was working.
Also got the news today that dh's cousin's wife passed away AND a longtime former employee of dinlaws also passed away today. We will need to attend both services, or at least visitations, and dcousin's wife is about 3 hours away. DH told me I did not have to go, that he could go by himself, or ds might go with him. We were not really-really close, but it IS a first cousin (whose father, now deceased, was the preacher who married dh & me). When dh talked to him tonight, he said he could tell dcousin does NOT expect us to attend service Saturday, but he knew our presence would be truly appreciated.
DH told him we would really try to be there, but if the former employee's service is at the same time, we will have to stay for that.
So...
WHEN am I going to do Christmas shopping???
WHEN am I going to put up a tree & decorations???
WHEN am I going to sleep again???
* sigh *
Actually, I think I'll take care of that last one pretty quickly. I just don't think I can stay upright much longer tonight.
And please forgive me for the ranting and whining and for pretty much ignoring everyone around me tonight.
Aunt Flo has arrived, I've had 4 hours sleep, and I am really not at the top of my game.
I think I told y'all my computer has been on the blink at school. Well, I got it back today. Well -- got my old hard drive back in a new case w/a new motherboard. Let's hope this works.
The great majority of my day was spent transferring stuff from laptop to external hard drive to new desktop. * sheesh *
Spent the first of my two "free periods" with this & proofreading what students had typed already.
Spent the second of my two "free periods" eating my lunch -- two hours late -- and getting things straightened up while students typed more.
3:00 -- LONG faculty meeting -- in which many things were discussed which made me slightly uneasy, but which will most likely not come to pass...
Then went back to my room sometime after 4:00 and worked till 5:30. * whew *
I called dparents when I started out the front door, in the darkness, you know... partly just so I'd have someone on the phone in case I got knocked in the head or something. I think I was the very last person out of the building except the basketball coach & his players, and basketball practice was on the other side of the building from me. I was sooo glad ddad answered the phone, b/c I like for him to know that teaching is not just an 8-3 job that leaves me with all this leisure time to be at everyone's beck and call.
* Our school is not in a bad neighborhood or anything, and we've never had any sort of violence that I can recall -- other than the typical student fights every now & then -- but a few years back, there was a really terrible incident in our district, involving a teacher after-hours, and it has made us all a bit more wary of working late alone.
Anyway -- dparents did NOT need anything from me.
I went to the bank, home, and then went out to eat w/dh & ds. Ddil was working.
Also got the news today that dh's cousin's wife passed away AND a longtime former employee of dinlaws also passed away today. We will need to attend both services, or at least visitations, and dcousin's wife is about 3 hours away. DH told me I did not have to go, that he could go by himself, or ds might go with him. We were not really-really close, but it IS a first cousin (whose father, now deceased, was the preacher who married dh & me). When dh talked to him tonight, he said he could tell dcousin does NOT expect us to attend service Saturday, but he knew our presence would be truly appreciated.
DH told him we would really try to be there, but if the former employee's service is at the same time, we will have to stay for that.
So...
WHEN am I going to do Christmas shopping???
WHEN am I going to put up a tree & decorations???
WHEN am I going to sleep again???
* sigh *
Actually, I think I'll take care of that last one pretty quickly. I just don't think I can stay upright much longer tonight.
And please forgive me for the ranting and whining and for pretty much ignoring everyone around me tonight.
Aunt Flo has arrived, I've had 4 hours sleep, and I am really not at the top of my game.
