You know what really grinds my gears?

Today has been so exhausting. And I still have a faculty meeting before I can even leave work!!! I really think that we should take a hint from some of the public schools around here. They start school one hour later once a week so that the faculty can meet and discuss any issues that need resolving. Yes, this would mean that we would have to meet more often, but it also would mean that we wouldn't be stuck after school indefinitely, all of us impatient and feeling close to loosing it. Buh. I hate the second Wednesday of the month. All of us dread it.

This morning was a bit of a cluster F*** here at school. There were so many kids that were absent throughout last week that there were a TON of makeup tests that had to be done. Our dear principle knew this. He KNEW this, and yet he didn't tell ANYONE beforehand that their plans would have to be changed. He pulled our computer teacher out of her class with no more than 5 min. notice and made her go in the art room. She didn't have any written out instructions or sub plans. And I was supposed to have two back-to-back art classes this morning. Did I get told that I would have to improvise in my music classroom? Haha...NO. My morning band class had just left the room and I was gathering up my gradebook and other essentials to switch classes when my 3rd graders waltz in to my music room saying that they are doing testing in the art room. My principle didn't even check to see if I was going to have class in there during that time. (insert growl here)

So what kind of art do you do in a room with no tables and no art supplies with no notice? Luckily my 3rd graders were finishing a project and all they needed to do was color in what they had stenciled the week before. But my 4th grade couldn't do art at all because we were supposed to be starting a new pencil sketch project, of which all of the materials were in the other room. So we sang a song and that ended up being bad because the kids testing next door could hear the piano and the singing. Apparently they had just started testing when I was in the middle of my band class. So obviously they were having trouble concentrating - I know I would if I were them! All of this because SOMEONE IN CHARGE doesn't know how to plan ahead. I'm not a very organized person myself, but you don't see me trying to be a principle either!

That set me off on the wrong foot for the rest of the day. I just didn't seem to have any patience and all the little things really got to me. The talking out, the touching and not keeping hands to yourself, the lying - BUH.

And now I have to sit for an hour and 45 minutes and listen to the principle at our faculty meeting. All I want to do is go home, get our of my dress clothes and veg out. I really hope that I don't take this bad mood home. Hubby - I'm really going to try to leave this funk at school. Know that I'm making an effort! I love you!