down day

today kind of stunk.

last night i found out from my mom that her doctors are making her come in to check a "spot" on her other breast... so it is possible she could have breast cancer again.

then today, after making detailed lesson plans for the whole week, my entire first period class abandoned me 45 mins into the 90 minute class for a "college workshop" with unc pembroke... which wouldn't be a big deal if they weren't gone literally every other day for this stuff. and most of the time, they don't even want to go to the college whose fair they're attending! there is one of these things planned for almost every day between now and the end of november, and most of them coincide with my english 4 classes - you know, the only class seniors actually have to pass to graduate on time. it just makes me so mad that they want to know why our kids never pass their eog's and eoc's, but they give them approved excuses to miss nearly half of the classes in a semester!

so since most all of my second period class was also at this thing, i had no second period either - which would have been all good if the entire class had been gone and i could have just not gone to work today or something, but that was not the case, and i was stuck with a wasted day... again.

then i got nothing done during my planning period because i was so blah from the beginning of the day, and over half of the teachers in my building are out for one reason or another - recovering from surgery, tending to a possibly dying husband, sick children, or coming down with strep throat... by 3pm, it was just me, the biology teacher, and the assistant principal.

other than that, i had a case of the blah's and felt very lonely all day. this could have been caused by my lack of sleep last night (andrew was up and ill in the middle of the night), or the weather, or the weird schedule, or any number of things. but i haven't even been able to shake it tonight now that andrew's home.

i hope tomorrow's better.