Shhhhhhhh…Don’t Tell Anybody, But…

I’m trying to write an entry while multi-tasking a few other things…

1. My classroom inventory needs to be REinventoried. No, I did it right the FIRST time (after all, I am a woman – heh). However, the school as a whole is missing a few screws, er, items. Now I have to recount every fricking piece of equipment and desk and chair and paperclip and stinking dustball in my classroom. But in between counting I can just sneak in here for a few minutes and…

2. There’s a big Hispanic festival on Sunday. A team from the school is going to participate and sell food. Team. Read that as me, the principal and one other teacher. Me and two men. Two political men. Read that as I (the gringa) will be cooking and serving and collecting money while the BIG SHOTS do what they do best…posture and figuratively (oh PLEASE let it remain figurative!!) compare penis sizes. I have to gather together the supplies for that, but before I do I’ll just sneak in here and…

3. An OBSERVATION of my teaching technique? Next week? I need to have FORMAL lesson plans with objectives and all that crapola written? And don’t forget the official threatening I’ll have to give the kids the day before. OK. But before I write that…

4. Miss! Can we have some more candy? I think I need to throw up. Can I go to the clinic?

5. Why do I hear sirens so clearly right about now?

6. 2 online classes have assignments due in October. What day is it today? NOVEMBER 12!!?!?!!! Oh crap. But if I hurry on into Open Diary….

7. Thank heavens – I don’t hear the sirens any more. Or maybe that’s bad. Maybe I don’t hear them because they’re HERE.

8.Conference week next week. Get the room spruced up and appropriate examples of student work posted. Right. Let’s see…should I post the bit about “I scream when I get hit in the balls”? Right after I make my OD entry…

8. I’d like to contemplate. Yep. It’s time for some serious contemplation. Who am I and where am I going type stuff. Needed. Now. Whatever. As soon as I write down….

9. Daddy says the grass needs mowing when I get home. I say… who the heck cares? BECAUSE I REALLY REALLY need to spend some time on writing an excellent entry for OD!

10. Miss! There’s black junk backing up out of the water fountain! I’m gonna sue the school!!

11. Pick your pants up off the floor! No I DON’T CARE THAT YOU HAVE ON ANOTHER PAIR OF PANTS UNDER THOSE PANTS. PANTS ARE NOT TO BE WORN AROUND THE ANKLES IN MY CLASSROOM. Maybe I could just note a few of my faves….

12. If I don’t order something – anything – with this money I’m going to lose it. Gotta order now. I think the pastel lavendar aprons were on sale at a good price. For pity’s sake – I have a PAID OD subscription. Seems a shame not to sneak in and use it…

Oh heck. Lunch is over. My to-do list and my entry will just have to wait…….

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November 12, 2004

I hate it when I have so much to write that I just can’t get that entry written! Great job of not writing here! LOL 🙂

November 12, 2004

*hugs* you’re so creative. we had this teacher that always got bad observations, so he told us way ahead of time this top secret thing. EVERY student raised their hands EVERY time. . . left if you didn’t know the answer, right if you did. . . and we had to stagger it so it wasn’t obvious. . . and he promised not to call on us if we had our left hands up. unless there were no right hands.

November 12, 2004

“I scream when I get hit in the balls.” Oh holy shit! That’s probably not REALLY funny…so why am I laughing? RYN: Your notes today were so sweet and clever…thank you.

November 12, 2004

Creative writing and really funny. For Christmas I’d like to give you an extra 24 hours each day.

November 12, 2004

Conference week? OMG! Horrors. I’ll look for you again during Thanksgiving break. LOL.

November 12, 2004

Might as well put some humor in the mad scramble going on there

November 12, 2004

NEVERMIND THAT 24 HOURS AT CHRISTMAS…….START NOW ! ! ! SMILES, …

November 12, 2004

Hey you can’t just leave us hanging like that! When you gonna do an entry for here? LOL RYN: I wish you were here to give them a piece of your mind LOL Hugz

November 12, 2004

LOL… I remember doing ALL this extra work teaching, and nothing was ever done with it. Sometimes they just threw the papers into an endless file system, other times they never even collected it even though they threatened to take our heads if it wasn’t done. *sigh*

November 12, 2004

Ryn… I didn’t freeze the paperwhite bulbs. Once they’re spent, if I wanted to get them to bloom again I’d put them in the refrigerator for a month or two and then start over. Paperwhites are tender though. You never want to freeze them.

November 12, 2004

Loved reading your non-entry.

November 12, 2004

Oh, I feel for you, P. I really, really do. No, I mean I REALLY do! I really do.

November 13, 2004

I don’t suppose you could sneak some of that money to order a copy of “Torin and Sunshine”. It’s very educational! With a grin…

November 13, 2004

Do the members of your team scream when they get hit in the balls while comparing penis sizes? Arriba! Yikes. Good luck with it all….

BBe
November 14, 2004

If you have less than enough dust balls let me know. I can always do us both a favor and clean up a bit around here. 😉

November 15, 2004

reminded me of some kids we saw in the pub on friday… nice underwear they had which I could tell because one of them had borrowed his older brothers jeans so they hung at his knees and the other had borrowed his little sisters so they did up at his knees… you mean that’s fashion?…. and yes, they were kicked out for being underage *grin* My grass needs mowing too…..

November 15, 2004

lol great entry. I am exhausted just thinking about all you do. love

November 15, 2004

RYN: I know you do more good things in your class. Don’t you know the love shines through in everything you write? You are one of those keeper teachers, the ones who change lives with kindness. Giiven enough time, all we hear are the good teachers. The bad ones become a puzzle as we try to figure out their troubled lives. Hugs right back at you..

Hey, Hey, Hey! Now you have a real mess of kidds to deal with! 😛 Oh now, I think you can handle them youngin’s…lol Kidd J

November 15, 2004

****Smiling**** That was good, my friend! Tell me….WHAT IS IT LIKE TO HAVE A PAID ODPLUS SUBSCRIPTION THAT WORKS? I WRITE FOR HELP BUT HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A REPLY. IWROTE FOR THE FOURTH TIME TONIGHT. I THINK ABOUT ONCE A WEEK SHOULD DO IT. FIRST ALL MY ENTRIES GET DUMPED/LOST/PILLAGED FROM SOME CREEPOID. THEN I SHELL OUT THE CASH FOR ODPLUS…AND IT’S LIKE I STILL DON’T EXIST. WAAAAA

November 16, 2004

Dropping in, now that power is restored to my corner of the world. With a smile…

November 16, 2004

No need to contemplate who you are and where you are going; you’ve already got there! *grin* Oh, the joys of teaching! How do you find time to read, write and note on OD at all, I wonder? (I’m relieved that I didn’t discover OD till after retirement.)

November 16, 2004

You sound just like me. I need to water the flowers after I do the dishes after I get a new dishcloth after I fold laundry after I take clean clothes out of the dryer after I put wet clothes into the dryer after I do a load of laundry… Now what did I need to do?

November 18, 2004

ryn: hey, thanks! It’s not bad for a pseudo-beginner’s work, I guess, and the depiction is very low-quality. I’ll post some successes soon, I hope! 🙂

November 19, 2004

RYN: I’ll dream of you and the beach and sunshine while I watch the snow.LOL. By February I am mad to see sunshine. Come April, I feel like rolling in the newly found grass, mud and all. July and August are 100 degrees and as dry as a cob. Life in the high desert country of Washington is all about extremes. I’ll share..:-)

November 19, 2004

Guess what?!!!! Diary Master not only fixed the problem, he started my subscription anew!!!! I am so damn happy!!! And you know what else? ***Grins*** I love you too…Too! (((((((((((Wolfie)))))))))))

November 20, 2004

RYN- Cool! Where are they reenactors at?

November 20, 2004

my head is always multi-tasking…love <p style ="background-image: url(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v170/leonalia/1.gif); background-repeat:no -repeat; background-attachment: scroll;width:40;height:35″>

November 21, 2004

YOU founded me as the kleine kinder say. Yep. Don’t know what happened but all the entries went away in froglette. i was like woo hooo, a tabula rossa but then the diary disappeared too. boo hiss. Anyway, i’m here. or there. or somewhere. palm.net closed up shoppe so no more winifred addresses. Got my tealfrog one? If not send to froglette@care2.com and i’ll try and find the message thru

November 21, 2004

the spam to send you an email if you don’t have the one i use. Phone numbers are still the same, are yours? Gobble gobble, tell your dad to get a goat to eat the grass. 🙂

November 21, 2004

did they find all the screws? ryn.. thank you, great answer!

November 24, 2004

A happy Thanksgiving for you, Sunshine!

Mns
November 24, 2004

Happy Turkey Day, SW! 🙂

November 25, 2004

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you find some pumpkin ravioli in your stockings tonight. Wait, that’s not right, is it? 🙂