these boots

fiona keeps barfing all over the back room. wingman is simmering with quiet anger, as if his dog is angelic. i'm keeping miss pukes-a-lot outside until her tummy settles. poor puppy though.

this week has been chaos. i am so glad that it is over now. today was especially annoying... the principal likes to spring these all-high-school presentations on me, and always wants to hold them in the art room because it's the biggest classroom in the school. i've put the kybosh on that though, so he uses my other classroom instead - the science room. why does it always have to be my classroom? anyway, today, some little shit spilled a whole can of coke on my work table, ruined a bunch of handouts, some tests my kids had written. i totally spun out. it's a good thing there were no students in the room, because i just about exploded. i guess even i have my limits of flexibility. you know, it wasn't that the pop got spilled, it wasn't even that so much of my work was ruined. but they didn't even have the sense of personal responsibility to even try to clean it up, or even tell someone about it, or even blame it on someone else! they just spilled and left. pissed me right off.

when i went back in a while later though, two of my students (who didn't do the spilling) had cleaned up the mess and left me a little note to say they'd done it so i wouldn't have to. it was really sweet of them. i wish i had known they had done it earlier, because all the anger left me when i saw what they'd done.

see? some good kids and some real little shits.

i am exhausted though. i actually slept for three hours after school. there is something about a week of chaos that makes me feel like i should be on vacation now. it feels anti-climactic to have a full week of regular classes now before the break. not to mention i just don't want to be here anymore. i need the break. 11 days!