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B&M Monday
I'm SOOO tired of my students needing to be spoon fed everything. It's ridiculous. They are in middle school. Learn to read directions for yourself. But then the parents don't help because they enable this behavior. It's causing me too much stress at 35 weeks pregnant!!!
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Hang in there! I know it's easier said than done, but try to just not worry about it. It's so close to the end of the school year, there isn't a lot that can be done at this stage. You don't need the stress, plus you are moving right, so you won't even be at that school next year?
Not saying you should not do your job, but if I was you I'd be letting a lot more slide and roll of my shoulders at this stage in the game.
My B&M is that my sister's IL's drive me bonkers! Well, mostly just her MIL.
I have twin sisters (they are twins, I'm not a twin). We got a text on Saturday inviting us to a birthday party that MIL was throwing for my one sister H on Sunday. My other sister J also got the invite. This is weird and awkward for J. How is she supposed to go to a birthday party for H when they share the same birthday??? So weird. We already had plans so didn't go and J didn't go either because she felt so awkward that she made up some excuse. Also, apparently H told J that this was in the works awhile ago, but we only got an invite the day before? Her MIL is all sorts of crazy cakes and drives me crazy so I had no issues not going, but feel bad for J.
I have definitely backed off some, but the kids/parents don't know I'm not coming back yet because my principal is weird about that stuff, so I cant totally slack off like I want to (although I DO have the kids teaching a bunch of the lessons the next few weeks as their "term 3 project"..haha..aka, I don't want to teach)
We had a Derby Party on Saturday (with a Mexican flare for Cinco De Mayo).... It was AWESOME - except I"m on a two day hangover as a result.
We just got an invite from my BIL. He is releasing a book - and invited us to the "release party." Now I read this as - come have a few drinks and apps to support him. But really what I think it is is nothing more than him inviting his friends for drinks and dinner and everyone paying their own way. Which is pretty much the norm. Except SIL and BIL are NOTORIOUSLY cheap and never pay their share of anything. This makes me not want to go.
I have a twin sister and would not find it weird or awkward to go to a birthday party for her. I'd only be annoyed at the fact that the invite came 24 hours before my own birthday - It may sound weird but I"d be insulted that her MIL would think I"d be around!
Was this a big birthday?
T's been raining since last night and all hubby and I wanted to do was stay in bed together all day. Instead we both have to work...so now in sitting in the wonderful trailer counting down the hours till I can go home. I don't like being too negative but no one EVER comes in during bad weather.
Also, I'd love to peruse the internet since there isn't anything to do but my company watches everything you do online...and I'm getting headaches from constantly being on my cell phone to surf the web.
I still have a MAJOR bruise from the IV I got in the ER LAST Tuesday night. I had the worst migraine I have ever had in 15 years and DH had to take me in.
I guess that's it lol
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No...it's their 27th birthday. It was also kind of weird because their birthday is not until the 15th, but mine was the Saturday.....
ETA: I think it was more that she felt uncomfortable that they would feel the need to include her birthday as well, not that they weren't acknowledging her birthday.
When you figure this out, let me know. My dad died almost 12 years ago and sometimes it still feels as fresh as the night he died.
I'm mostly heartbroken that he will never meet (until later
) his grandson.
Sometimes I think you never really do completely move on. My mom's been gone 13 years and I still can't get through the day she died or mother's day without crying my eyes out because I miss her so very much. I spend the first 2 weeks of May dreading the second Sunday. *hugs* some things in life just suck.
I'm mad at these stupid birds. got a hanging basket... Really pretty with little pink flowers. Not 24 hours after I put it up, these stupid birds decided it was their home and messed it all up, knocked 80% of the flowers off, and dug a hole in the middle of it. Mind you, I live in an apartment so I don't get to have and enjoy plants, so I was excited about this one.
I fought the birds for a while, but I eventually gave up. Now when I sit on my patio they squawk at me from the nearest trees.Makes me want to sit here longer.
I would totally throw the nest out again but I just can't bring myself to destroy the eggs. Stupid birds better hatch and grow up fast.
It's not just junior high. High school students are being bred into this mentality too. We honestly do too much for them. I want to really focus next year on working to get my high schoolers (whatever grade I end up with) to be more independent in their learning... to have to learn directions and to READ the directions!!
I'm sorry Tara... I know you've had a hard time. I dont think something like this ever really goes away but positive thoughts coming to you... hugs hon.
Ohhh, I had a birds next on my air conditioning unit at my old apartment. They nested there two years in a row. I even had two labradors who ate some of the babies when they were trying to fly and fell on the ground... and they still nested there again! Gl with all that. Once they hatch, the babies will chirp and the mama bird will fly back and forth to feed them.
Then they move onto college and have the same issues. I had one student absolutely baffled at why he was kicked out of a class and given an academic fail for not following the attendance policy. He said he thought class was optional. Well, it's a class based around group work and interpersonal skills, so my hunch was that there was an attendance policy spelled out on his syllabus, and sure enough it was! I read it to him and he said he hadn't seen that before. Instructors also go over the syllabus during the first class. It's not the only time I've read syllabi to my students and they've acted like its the first time they've seen something. Gahhh.
That must have been hard. My grandpa died 7 years ago and I am still not "over" it. And this may sound stupid, but when I get to thinking about the cat I had to put down (alone at 19) I still start crying.,... And then I think about my grandpa because it was his house I went to afterwords crying, and even at 19 he made me sit on his lap so he could hug me...it's a vicious cycle.
Im sorry.
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