I work at the library at my school. Translation: I provide planning time for the teachers. Each teacher brings her class to the library for one hour. We have three classes each of Kindergarten through 5th grades and one Pre-K class. This equals 19 classes, so I spend 19 hours a week teaching instead of being a librarian.

I have very few problems with the children in the library, where most of the time the worst problem is talking. What goes on in the library stays in the library. I rarely ever send anybody to the office, which is across the hall. You would think this would be appreciated, wouldn't you?

Yesterday I had a little boy in First Grade to start being disruptive. He had to go. The rest of the children were sitting quietly waiting to be read to. He evidently had a problem before he came in the library because almost as soon as he came in he started. I have never had a problem with him before: I'm not sure what was going on yesterday. How it wound up was that when he got to the office he was yelling and fighting against me. The secretary told me she would take him and for me to go back to my class. He started fighting against her. I made a comment to the office manager that behavior like that in a first grader made me frustrated and tired, and perhaps I needed a new line of work. Somebody from downtown was within hearing range and told the principal what I said and I got in trouble.

No wonder teaching is such an unpopular profession.

 

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-Oscar Wilde

The reason I picked this quotes is because I had chocolate ice cream for breakfast. I kept hearing it calling me in the night, which I finally stopped when I got up by eating a bowlful.

Emily, my oldest, had to go somewhere with her school this morning. She's in the junior-high choir. This may sound silly, but I am so happy that they actually call it junior high - that's what I'm used to hearing, not middle school. Anyway, the choir went to some type of choral event this morning in the next town. They had to be at school at 7:00. We made it at 7:05. I think the choir director shows great judgement in these things. She tells everybody to be there at 7:00, then shoots for leaving by 7:15 or 7:30.

Emily just got a guinea pig. She has wanted one for years and years. My husband is the one who objected. He said that it would smell the house up. I can't smell that great - I'm not sure why, but my smeller never has worked that well. My grandmother couldn't taste that well, so maybe I picked it up from her. So I didn't really care about the smell, but I never wanted to spend the money on one. It happened that one of her friends at school had three guinea pigs and needed to get rid of one or two for some reason and was willing to give Emily the cage and everything for free. Therefore all she had to do was talk Daddy into it, since the money aspect was all I cared about. They went Thursday night and got it. It's name is Biscuit. And guess what? Daddy is the one who has fallen in love with this thing. He walks around holding it and hugging on it and talking to it. Ha! I am normally an animal-lover, but I am not that attracted to it. To me a guinea pig is nothing but a rodent. However, if Emily is happy, and unexpectedly Daddy too, who am I to complain, right?

Since I have iTunes on my computer, I am always leaving music on during the day while we are gone for our two doggies. Emily has a TV in her room and our cable network has about 50 music channels, so she leaves it on the classical music channel for Biscuit every day. I bet we have the only guinea pig in Mississippi who listens to classical music.
 

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
~Andrew Lang

I had forgotton how addicting looking at my Summary Stats can be! "Unknown" is what kills me. What do you mean, "unknown?" I want to know who is looking, dadgummit!

I go back to school and back to my little darlings tomorrow. That's the one advantage to Christmas: school is out! I have enjoyed being right at my house. Fortunately I wrote lesson plans for this week before I left for the holidays. I was trying to remember if I had done my copying or not. No clue. I'll figure it out when I get there tomorrow. I spent the day with my mother and grandmother. It was nice.