Dinner?

Is it okay that I am eating supper at 3:00. Er, make that finished eating supper at 2:56. Is that bad? I was hungry. That slim fast lunch wasn't doing the trick today.

YIPEE!!!

I JUST FOUND THE CORD THAT CONNECTS MY CAMERA TO THE COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm REAL excited. Or is it really? Anyone.
So...because I'm so excited...Here's a picture from Cassie's bachelorette weekend of...

Golf?!

Basketball Sidelines!

Sorry for the cheerleading video. I'm trying to find a way to get around not having YouTube at school, and needing my girls to see the video. :) Feel free to by pass this post.

In love...

TG: "Mrs. Singleton,"
ME; "Yes?"
TG: "Are you in love?"
Me w/ a very confused look: "No...??"
TG: "Yeah you are, you listen to slow songs all the time."

ATTENTION WORLD...I'm in love.

Apparently.

Happy

Maybe I'm posting a lot because I'm happy. :)

Just in a good place.

Here's the shake. (I don't know what that means?)

Anyways...

I love my school. I really want my kids scores to be better than anyone else's on the benchmark exams that we are taking, so that my administration will fight for me at the end of the year.
I know I'm not good. I know this is a long shot. But I don't think it is entirely impossible.

I realize that most people work themselves to death because they love their kids. And I do love my kids. But not enough to work myself to death. I LOVE MY SCHOOL ENOUGH TO WORK MYSELF TO DEATH! I LOVE MY SCHOOL! I love my school! There are just no two ways about it.

Mainly I love my administrator (who for the rest of the world on this blog will here after be known as Mrs. B. - I contemplating being her friend on facebook...I would be creeped out if I found someones blog and found out I'd been referenced...Not that she wouldn't know. I digress).

SPOILED. That's the only word I've got. Absolutely SPOILED. She's wonderful. Even if I am still at this school next year, but I'm in another house (meaning she's not my supervising principal), I'll probably cry.

Anyways. The intent of this post was to say I feel really supported today. I wrote this kid up the other day, for what I thought wasn't enough to write a referral, and he got MAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FEEL SO VALIDATED!

That's all I wanted to say.

I feel validated today.

Doctoral Fourth Period

My kids are going to fail the End of Course test if the government does not grant us the leniency we need for it being the first year of new standards, and my school is going to fail AYP. There is nothing I can do about it, and there is nothing they can do about it.

It's been decided.

That being said, if the benchmark is lowered. We may be okay.

As it stands we are going to fail. It's depressing, but I've made peace.

So where that leaves me is this.

A beautiful honest moment with my fourth block today. I was just real honest. I told them they were going to fail. True story. Then I talked about why it mattered. Then I made up some crap about how they don't want to go to a school that has been taken over by the government (I have no idea what that kind of school would be like, but I made up some colorful details).

Then I told them about college.

And they actually listened. They actually freakin' listened. (In the voice of that girl from Now and Then who says "we did it, we actually freakin' did it" when they think they've raised little johnny from the dead...Anybody?...No? Okay..)

And somewhere in my speech I decided I wanted to get a doctorate.

So, thank you fourth period.

For you time.

And your insight.

Peace.

PB

There is peanut butter on my spoon. I need to put it back in my lunch box. I don't have any paper towels and I don't want to lick it off.

What's a girl to do?

OMG!

We had a WATERFALL at school today...

No, seriously.

I was out of class for training all day, so as I was coming around the corner from my break, headed back to my class, I heard what sounded like a waterfall.

My thought process...

"Wow, that sounds like a waterfall...no way, 1 - i'm on the bottom floor, 2 - i'm inside...must be the air conditioner, i hope this doesn't mean it's going to break again...."

"HOLY COW!!! There IS a waterfall"

Y'all...a pipe broke in the ceiling and it was FLOODING, not trickling, but a SOLID sheet of water coming in the hallway. There were principals, janitors, coaches and secretaries frantically "sweeping" water out into the court yard in an attempt to keep it from getting to a copy machine or drink machine. I have NEVER seen anything like it.

Everyone stayed in 2nd period for over 2 hours, and NO ONE could leave. There was no water in the building. We took an early lunch break so we could go somewhere with water to use the bathroom.

I'm SO thankful I had PD today. Geeze.

Strange as it is though...these are reasons I love my job.

I realized today that I love it.

At least I love it today.

It's a start!

A new note...

Do it DAM!

I'm tirod i don, wona du it!!

I hope ya azz fail den shit im tryna help u

fuk fack

Wow! Woll, I apreciate dna tryna help bt i jux don fill lyk doin itt...

U GNNA FAIL BYXL!

Oh wow. nah ima turn it in until monday cuz i aint evngn bi able to finish tuda.

K im doin upm 4 & 5

she git on mi nervous (teacher)

yhu min nervs!!! lmpao...

So I dnt giva fack

Okay!!!she's so annoying

Duh she tryna make us write I b damshix

yea shes bin such a bish

I no she pass dad

het yea.

Mnnshi don it me do Mr. H wrk...

Do it fuk na nai aint evn gon duit no nwr.


I would provide a translation but I don't know what most of it says...

What I do know is that I'm annoying, and my kids are lazy. RIDICULOUS