I have officially remembered why I went to part time.
I had a staff meeting today–didn’t get home until 5:15–the short people were… well…
Amazingly talkative.
I spent two hours on the couch with my squishy Ladybug kitty and a cowgirl and a kid who needed to look at a Wal-Mart catalogue and a kid who needed milk and a kid who needed dinner and then needed a hotdog and then needed to sit on my lap and one who wanted to enact a dentist appointment (where three out of four went with their father) and one who wanted to touch my knitting and one who wanted to show me toys and one who wanted a story book…
I really only have two kids who fit on my lap–you all know that, right?
OI! I finally lost my temper–ENOUGH!!! And threw the shortest, squishiest one in her bed. The bony angular one fell asleep within a minute and a half afterward–in our bed. And I thought the noise would stop.
I mean–I’d done a major re-org on two classes to get them to shut up–and they did. My 3rd period asked me for a reason to read the Declaration of Independence in the same breath (I’m not shitting you) that they asked me what I voted on Prop 8–I told them the answer to both–again in the same breath.
They were absolutely silent. But they were the only ones.
There was a meeting, there was other teachers, there were voices in my head–none of it stopped, not once.
And then I got home and nobody stopped talking–it was very weird. Even after the short people went to bed, Big T wouldn’t stop talking.
Weird. Weird. Weird.
And now, everyone’s asleep but me, sitting alone, working quietly on my Noro Landscape scarf (this simple and almost poetic blend of a simple stitch pattern and yarn the color of a November day–Interweave Crochet Winter issue) and finally, FINALLY it’s quiet.
I must say, even weirder.
(btw–my favorite refrigerator magnet of all times said “When it walks out of the fridge, let it go!” What’s yours?)
Oh yeah–this was my first choice… (Donna Lee, I totally snagged this from you, and I bet you’re laughing uproariously at the moment!)
My last choice of designs, btw? Teacher.
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