time DOES stand still!!!

today was on the verge of being considered cruel and unusual punishment.  a day like this could drive a person to drinking!  wow!

for those of you who've ever said or thought that teachers have it easy because they only work 9 months out of the year, i DARE  you to step foot in my classroom on a day like today.  first of all, rain makes kids crazy!  you would think hurricane ike was bearing down on us right now. second of all, my afternoon class had a substitute all morning, so they were doubly wound up.

not 20 minutes after they arrived a boy announced that someone had peed all over the toilet paper, the toilet seat and the floor.  when i went to check the bathroom out, not only had ALL of that happened, but it looked like someone had been finger-painting with poop on the back of the toilet!  that's just nasty...I KNOW.  this is my world!

so we had to shut down the boys' bathroom until it could be decontaminated which meant that the boys now how to leave class, go out in the rain to the main building to use the restroom.  so guess what?  suddenly ALL of the boys had to go potty!  {where is a box of Depends when you need them?}  so i laid down the law....the boys only got ONE trip to the bathroom so they better make sure they REALLY had to go.  we got through that trauma and BAM! the power went out!

holy cow!  do you know what happens when the power goes out in a room full of kids?  they turn into idiots!  it's like werewolves coming to life during a full moon...utter chaos!  the power stayed off for almost hour!  that 50-something minutes without power was longer than the week without power during the ice storm!  

there is a VERY GOOD REASON teachers "only work 9 months and have their summers off."  it's called mental preservation!  if school were year-round our mental institutions would be over-flowing!

but don't get me wrong...i love my job.  there's never a dull moment!