A GREAT day in Brewer, Maine today!!!
Ok...here's the long and short of it kids...I get up and check my emails to find some special deals from the guy who I purchase my Red Sox tickets from each summer. He has a deal on some "front row" loge box seats on the third base line...just between the visitor's dugout and Manny...Now by "front row" we are not talking "on the field front row," but a mere 14 rows back...the front row just behind the walkway...STILL very good seats to watch a game., but not sure why they would call them FRONT ROW unless it's to get folks to bite. They are playing the team they face tonight...The Rays...!
So, since we got shut out (haha...pun intended) on our little Florida jaunt, I thought Kyle would like to be treated to a game since he has been begging me for the last two years, and I am going again in late August with the girls. He is thrilled, and went and bought an Ellsbury shirt at the mall cause he can't find his Ortiz shirt.
The beauty of this trip is that it falls on the end of the weekend we are in Portland for the Bishop's consecration service, so we will go down after that on Saturday, stay with the H. Roy Kartsteins, and just head to the ballpark on Sunday morning for the 1:30 start. The drive home won't be too bad that night, even with School the next day, as far as I'm concerned.
The MAJOR beauty of this one Super Sibs, and I know this sounds bad, is that now Mom won't be going with us to the Bishop's service...I had mentioned that I could try to get her a ticket, but since we will go to the game on Sunday, she won't be able to attend afterall...Oh well. As I lay in bed this morning thinking of how much I might be regretting that offer, and before I got the email about the Sox tickets, I was trying to think of HOW I could back out of that offer....I know, I am bad...I just can't stand the thought of being in a car, hotel room, church, and NO DOUBT another night at Chez Libbey...especially after the phone call I had with her the other night....GOTTA REMEMBER NOT TO CALL HER AFTER HER FIRST GLASS....DAMN!
So, it all worked out, for Kimmie at least.....for once!
To top it all off, I put the Mustang on the road today...got 4 new G.W. Bush tires on it (to be paid when that check comes), put the insurance back on it, and am loving driving it again!
Speaking of driving....Kyle is doing ok learning on the Rav...it's a standard and he gets a bit frustrated being the consummate perfectionist that he is, not being able to handle it if he makes a mistake (wonder where he got THAT trait from!!!). Nevertheless, he is doing very well, I think.
Got his 3rd quarter report card the other day....High Honors...All A's except for Honors Spanish where he missed an A by less than 3 points! So, today, he put some of his money saved, and some kickback Driver's Ed money I promised him if he got all A's (hey, pretty close is good for me) down on a new bass guitar. It is really beautiful...all light wood...Tyler will love it!!! He only owes about $100 on it, and can then take it home. I owe him about $50 of that, and he gets paid Friday's from his little cat feeding job up the street, so he will probably be strumming it by next weekend or shortly thereafter.
Lastly, today at the Gym, I was able to "slightly jog" on the tread climber machine...a treadmill-like walking machine that only goes 5 mph maximum. It has alternating belts for each foot that move up and down simulating climbing...it is a GREAT workout even when just walking it. But, I have actually been able to jump again...something I have not been able to do since last July...or perhaps even June....so I began a slight jog, with some weight bearing on the hand rails (I'm not stupid afterall...NOT interested in 4 of these surgeries...#3 is coming up soon enough on the right ankle). I didn't overdo it...only would jog for a minute or two minutes at a time at the most, and then only at 4 mph. It was very satisfying. The progress is finally beginning to show up, and I am grateful. It has been a very long time coming...but of course it would have been sooner had I not completely ruptured it 2 months into the recovery of the first surgery. Now.....how can I swing the 3rd one without Mom coming up here to stay??? Hmmmm...NOT that I wasn't happy to have her help...she just wore out her welcome is all. Kyle is even asking me if she has to come this time around...Yikes!
Ok...so that's it from here...Happy to have had the week to relax here, get all my yard work done...yes ALL, and ended up the week in a happy mood. And...I still have two days left!
"KimNOTinthegym" for two more days!!!
Friday, April 25, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
Another life wasted...make that two!
I have worked in the Old Town school system almost 3 years now, and have now seen 6 former students die tragic, unexpected, and even horrible deaths. It never gets easy...especially when you have either taught these kids, or known them as student body members and potentially "good" citizens of the community you work in and around.
My first year, within the first month of work, we lost two students to an accident that should have been avoided had the girl NOT been picking up her boyfriend at his home in the first place for school that day...she didn't have her license long enough to be carrying other kids...it was absolutely an inexperienced driver's fault-type of accident, and they both died WAY too soon.
They were a Junior and Senior.
Then, the very next year....a Sophomore with a wonderful musical career ahead of him perished in another inexperienced driving accident...he hit the soft shoulder and could not control his truck...when he stopped, the load of lumber he had in the bed came through the back window and basically impaled him. He was a very sweet boy.......BOY!!! His mother is still devastated by his loss....obviously. Such a waste...he was hurrying to keep up with the guys in front of him as they were on their way to the camp they were building together and this boy had the lumber.
This year, we lost a Junior to and "accidental" overdose of who knows WHAT drugs! Eric was a misguided kid who was trying to just stay afloat...he played football just to keep himself getting up in the morning. He had recently fallen into a fire pit while intoxicated and burned his hands...so he was on vicodin for the pain...which was not working, so he had his father get him "something else"....His mother found her son dead in bed around 1 p.m. on a Sunday....
And this weekend....a girl in my Pride Group for the last two years, who graduated last year (similar to a home room, only more intimate in closeness cause there are only about 15) gets taken hostage when the ex-boyfriend whom she put out an harassment warrant on, finds her with another guy...he beats him with a bat, takes her hostage and drives to Connecticut whereby they get pulled over and he shoots himself in front of her...Jesus! The guy she was with who was beaten to death was a good kid too....tragic! The guy who shot himself was a loser to begin with, but I have the sinking feeling that he is the brother of a freshman student of mine...something else I will have to deal with when I get back if this is so...she seems fragile enough as it is.
To top all this off, my student teacher lost his good friend's fiance to a car crash this week...she was headed from Portland to Yarmouth to work on 295 and for some reason crossed the median onto the southbound land and was struck by a mail truck and killed...he was beside himself, and I had to deal with that on top of the lousy week I get to have every year at this time, yet I have to go to work and "deal" with it so no one knows I am upset. I have to be there for the students I teach/work with regardless and...it just never really goes away ladies....it does get easier, but things come up and it still hits and hurts to the core. I hate that.
I am sick to death....of death, to put it bluntly!
Today, I gave Kyle his first lesson driving a standard....he was frustrated, but really did okay. He has decided that he wants an automatic, and I told him that was fine, but when he learns this way, he will be able to drive anything (but a semi). One hour down and 34 to go...or 6 months...whichever comes first! He will be fine. It's me who won't be, once he takes the car out for his first solo.......
No trip to Florida thanks to the Pope and his Yankee Stadium Mass. He managed to single handedly screw up all flights in and out of NY and NJ...We would have really have been stuck according to my friend Bob....Newark got crazy just after we headed home from Bangor. So, my yard work and kitchen floor take presidence this week...that's ok. At least the weather is ok so far. Nothing ventured, nothing gained....right???
Kim
My first year, within the first month of work, we lost two students to an accident that should have been avoided had the girl NOT been picking up her boyfriend at his home in the first place for school that day...she didn't have her license long enough to be carrying other kids...it was absolutely an inexperienced driver's fault-type of accident, and they both died WAY too soon.
They were a Junior and Senior.
Then, the very next year....a Sophomore with a wonderful musical career ahead of him perished in another inexperienced driving accident...he hit the soft shoulder and could not control his truck...when he stopped, the load of lumber he had in the bed came through the back window and basically impaled him. He was a very sweet boy.......BOY!!! His mother is still devastated by his loss....obviously. Such a waste...he was hurrying to keep up with the guys in front of him as they were on their way to the camp they were building together and this boy had the lumber.
This year, we lost a Junior to and "accidental" overdose of who knows WHAT drugs! Eric was a misguided kid who was trying to just stay afloat...he played football just to keep himself getting up in the morning. He had recently fallen into a fire pit while intoxicated and burned his hands...so he was on vicodin for the pain...which was not working, so he had his father get him "something else"....His mother found her son dead in bed around 1 p.m. on a Sunday....
And this weekend....a girl in my Pride Group for the last two years, who graduated last year (similar to a home room, only more intimate in closeness cause there are only about 15) gets taken hostage when the ex-boyfriend whom she put out an harassment warrant on, finds her with another guy...he beats him with a bat, takes her hostage and drives to Connecticut whereby they get pulled over and he shoots himself in front of her...Jesus! The guy she was with who was beaten to death was a good kid too....tragic! The guy who shot himself was a loser to begin with, but I have the sinking feeling that he is the brother of a freshman student of mine...something else I will have to deal with when I get back if this is so...she seems fragile enough as it is.
To top all this off, my student teacher lost his good friend's fiance to a car crash this week...she was headed from Portland to Yarmouth to work on 295 and for some reason crossed the median onto the southbound land and was struck by a mail truck and killed...he was beside himself, and I had to deal with that on top of the lousy week I get to have every year at this time, yet I have to go to work and "deal" with it so no one knows I am upset. I have to be there for the students I teach/work with regardless and...it just never really goes away ladies....it does get easier, but things come up and it still hits and hurts to the core. I hate that.
I am sick to death....of death, to put it bluntly!
Today, I gave Kyle his first lesson driving a standard....he was frustrated, but really did okay. He has decided that he wants an automatic, and I told him that was fine, but when he learns this way, he will be able to drive anything (but a semi). One hour down and 34 to go...or 6 months...whichever comes first! He will be fine. It's me who won't be, once he takes the car out for his first solo.......
No trip to Florida thanks to the Pope and his Yankee Stadium Mass. He managed to single handedly screw up all flights in and out of NY and NJ...We would have really have been stuck according to my friend Bob....Newark got crazy just after we headed home from Bangor. So, my yard work and kitchen floor take presidence this week...that's ok. At least the weather is ok so far. Nothing ventured, nothing gained....right???
Kim
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Just a J.V. Catholic...and PROUD OF IT!
Yep, that's right people...I am just a JV Catholic as an Episcopaleon, and I wouldn't change it for anything!
Today, the Pope...yes, THAT POPE...managed to screw up all of New York and its surrounding airports so that planes had to be delayed, etc and/or couldn't get in or out at all! Consequently, as Kyle and I sat in Bangor International Airport for over 3.5 hours waiting to fly out with our Stand-by tickets, we were resolute that we were GOING to get to Tampa today! Alas, I would not be writing this blog if that were only so.
Just as we were one foot from the plane door, and I MEAN ONE FOOT, my friend Bob, whose "buddy passes" we were flying on calls me and says it is really tight in Newark (Continental's hub airport) and that all the pilots/crew/staff that HAD flights earlier were now bumping folks like us and we would probably get stuck in Newark until tomorrow afternoon, latest. No thanks!!! So, we picked up our bags, ripped up our stand by passes and "stood and waved bye" to the plane! Oh well....nothing ventured nothing gained!
So, we are still in the great state of Maine...hoping for the good weather that has been predicted so I can do my yard work, and get the rest of my flooring laid down. Presently, my refrigerator is sitting at the top of my stairs in my LIVING ROOM waiting for little brother, sib #4 Chris to finish the job he started. My bathroom looks GREAT! I love it, and cannot wait for the kitchen to look as nice.
Beware Mainers....a new 15 year old is now legally on the road as a "permitee"...that's right, Kyle Libbey has his driver's permit now. Only missed 8 questions out of 100 on the written. Of course, his Mom will have to teach him to drive a standard, cause that's all I have at the moment (still waiting for his buddy's Dad to find me that used Jeep Liberty)...so that is what else I will be doing this week...teaching Junior how to drive all over again! It will be fun........................I hope.
Also, to brag MY child up a bit, he made High Honors this quarter...all A's and one high B+ (in Spanish....HONORS SPANISH that is)....I am very proud of his efforts. When the boy puts his mind to it, he can pull all A's...he just sits back and follows a bit too much sometimes, but he is catching on, I think. Looking forward to seeing THAT report card!!! May have to frame it! haha
Ok...hitting the sack now...tired from being up early for church, then sitting at BIA for so long....OH...that reminds me! Kyle was also selected to be one of only two crucifers at the new Bishop's consecration on May 3rd!!! I really thought we were too late, but apparently, someone liked what they saw on his application. There were other positions like torch bearors, banner carriers and streamer carriers, but Kyle listed crucifer as his number one choice, and he got it! The minister at St. Lukes, in Portland, was very nice, and we are looking forward to meeting her and Bishop-elect Lane in a couple of weeks. I am hoping to find another ticket for Mom...would like someone else to share this with me....as it stands now, I only have one seat, unless I park cars, greet or usher at the service...something I just may end up doing. What a great experience for Kyle...I don't think he will really grasp it until he sees all the pageantry involved with this....I am excited, I know that! So, it really IS good to be an Episcopaleon afterall!!! hahaha
Kimmie
Today, the Pope...yes, THAT POPE...managed to screw up all of New York and its surrounding airports so that planes had to be delayed, etc and/or couldn't get in or out at all! Consequently, as Kyle and I sat in Bangor International Airport for over 3.5 hours waiting to fly out with our Stand-by tickets, we were resolute that we were GOING to get to Tampa today! Alas, I would not be writing this blog if that were only so.
Just as we were one foot from the plane door, and I MEAN ONE FOOT, my friend Bob, whose "buddy passes" we were flying on calls me and says it is really tight in Newark (Continental's hub airport) and that all the pilots/crew/staff that HAD flights earlier were now bumping folks like us and we would probably get stuck in Newark until tomorrow afternoon, latest. No thanks!!! So, we picked up our bags, ripped up our stand by passes and "stood and waved bye" to the plane! Oh well....nothing ventured nothing gained!
So, we are still in the great state of Maine...hoping for the good weather that has been predicted so I can do my yard work, and get the rest of my flooring laid down. Presently, my refrigerator is sitting at the top of my stairs in my LIVING ROOM waiting for little brother, sib #4 Chris to finish the job he started. My bathroom looks GREAT! I love it, and cannot wait for the kitchen to look as nice.
Beware Mainers....a new 15 year old is now legally on the road as a "permitee"...that's right, Kyle Libbey has his driver's permit now. Only missed 8 questions out of 100 on the written. Of course, his Mom will have to teach him to drive a standard, cause that's all I have at the moment (still waiting for his buddy's Dad to find me that used Jeep Liberty)...so that is what else I will be doing this week...teaching Junior how to drive all over again! It will be fun........................I hope.
Also, to brag MY child up a bit, he made High Honors this quarter...all A's and one high B+ (in Spanish....HONORS SPANISH that is)....I am very proud of his efforts. When the boy puts his mind to it, he can pull all A's...he just sits back and follows a bit too much sometimes, but he is catching on, I think. Looking forward to seeing THAT report card!!! May have to frame it! haha
Ok...hitting the sack now...tired from being up early for church, then sitting at BIA for so long....OH...that reminds me! Kyle was also selected to be one of only two crucifers at the new Bishop's consecration on May 3rd!!! I really thought we were too late, but apparently, someone liked what they saw on his application. There were other positions like torch bearors, banner carriers and streamer carriers, but Kyle listed crucifer as his number one choice, and he got it! The minister at St. Lukes, in Portland, was very nice, and we are looking forward to meeting her and Bishop-elect Lane in a couple of weeks. I am hoping to find another ticket for Mom...would like someone else to share this with me....as it stands now, I only have one seat, unless I park cars, greet or usher at the service...something I just may end up doing. What a great experience for Kyle...I don't think he will really grasp it until he sees all the pageantry involved with this....I am excited, I know that! So, it really IS good to be an Episcopaleon afterall!!! hahaha
Kimmie
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Flat knees are NOT pretty!
Yes, my knees are permanently flat these days...from being on them since Friday (and don't get any snide ideas as to WHY). My new bathroom floor looks great! I am so happy to be rid of that disgusting linoleum it isn't even funny. I even bought a new toilet to go with my "new" bathroom look! That is sitting under my picture window at present, in the living room (yikes).
Christopher, my little house husband brother has been here working all weekend, and really helped me out. I am not sure I had the harder part of this project, but he thinks so. Pulling up the other floor, backing, glue, etc....has been a bitch to be sure....thus the flat knees! My back is aching, my hands are tired, my shoulders are hurting...but it is all gonna be worth it! I wish I could figure out how to put a picture of my new bath on this so I could show you....I can't wait for it to all be done. Chris liked the tile I picked out so much he said he wished he had found it for his bathroom.
So, in a couple of days, he will seal up the bathroom floor, put the new potty in, and start on the kitchen...God love him!
Kyle has helped some too....he tires too easily for me....here I am, still gimpy and 45 and busting my tail for 6 hours and he comes home (yes, he abandoned me last night when I could have used him) and barely pushed the floor chisel for 5 minutes and starts complaining. Chris had originally told him if he pulled up the old stuff, he would pay him $100 for it...that's how much Chris hates doing that part of the job (I now know why)...but I guess Kyle thought this was gonna be easy money...I have done more than half of the job, but no one is paying me!!! What's up with that! :) No matter, I get the satisfaction of a nice new look.
The funniest part was when the two Jehovahs came to the door and opened it and asked how I was. I said, Tired...so this kid asked me if he could help...I said no. What I wanted to say was "Sure, if your wonderful savior can rip this damn glue up off this kitchen floor, or you have a miracle prayer that will do the trick, then I will join you and bother the rest of my neighbors WITH you!!!" Hind sight is 20/20 though, and I just said to go on their way.
Took Friday off...it had been 11 years to the day, cause is was a Friday, that Ken passed. This Wednesday I would be spending my 20th anniversary...Wow! Where did those years go??? I can always remember how old Caroline will be based on my anniversary though....that is a good thing. I think we will go out to dinner that night (Kyle and me that is).
Feels like we are over the weather hump finally. Warmer days this week and last...was actually in shorts most of last week at work....and biked outside two days last week! Keep it coming Mother Nature! Loved the letter to the editor this weekend about the people in the obits who say they went to heaven or whatever...then the guy says what about the rest...after these long cold winters he suspected they went where it was a lot warmer!!!!! I laughed my a@#! off after reading that one!
Time for dinner and a glass of wine I guess....then watch the Sox Yankees game while I grade 100 tests that I had "Junior Phys Ed Wanna-be" give while I was out. Go Boston!!!!
Kimmie
Christopher, my little house husband brother has been here working all weekend, and really helped me out. I am not sure I had the harder part of this project, but he thinks so. Pulling up the other floor, backing, glue, etc....has been a bitch to be sure....thus the flat knees! My back is aching, my hands are tired, my shoulders are hurting...but it is all gonna be worth it! I wish I could figure out how to put a picture of my new bath on this so I could show you....I can't wait for it to all be done. Chris liked the tile I picked out so much he said he wished he had found it for his bathroom.
So, in a couple of days, he will seal up the bathroom floor, put the new potty in, and start on the kitchen...God love him!
Kyle has helped some too....he tires too easily for me....here I am, still gimpy and 45 and busting my tail for 6 hours and he comes home (yes, he abandoned me last night when I could have used him) and barely pushed the floor chisel for 5 minutes and starts complaining. Chris had originally told him if he pulled up the old stuff, he would pay him $100 for it...that's how much Chris hates doing that part of the job (I now know why)...but I guess Kyle thought this was gonna be easy money...I have done more than half of the job, but no one is paying me!!! What's up with that! :) No matter, I get the satisfaction of a nice new look.
The funniest part was when the two Jehovahs came to the door and opened it and asked how I was. I said, Tired...so this kid asked me if he could help...I said no. What I wanted to say was "Sure, if your wonderful savior can rip this damn glue up off this kitchen floor, or you have a miracle prayer that will do the trick, then I will join you and bother the rest of my neighbors WITH you!!!" Hind sight is 20/20 though, and I just said to go on their way.
Took Friday off...it had been 11 years to the day, cause is was a Friday, that Ken passed. This Wednesday I would be spending my 20th anniversary...Wow! Where did those years go??? I can always remember how old Caroline will be based on my anniversary though....that is a good thing. I think we will go out to dinner that night (Kyle and me that is).
Feels like we are over the weather hump finally. Warmer days this week and last...was actually in shorts most of last week at work....and biked outside two days last week! Keep it coming Mother Nature! Loved the letter to the editor this weekend about the people in the obits who say they went to heaven or whatever...then the guy says what about the rest...after these long cold winters he suspected they went where it was a lot warmer!!!!! I laughed my a@#! off after reading that one!
Time for dinner and a glass of wine I guess....then watch the Sox Yankees game while I grade 100 tests that I had "Junior Phys Ed Wanna-be" give while I was out. Go Boston!!!!
Kimmie
Monday, April 7, 2008
Too sick to come in....RIIIIGHT!
The saga continues.....after ANOTHER "come to Jesus meeting" with his supervisor, "The Kid" doesn't come in today....too sick! I had to listen to how he had been nauseous and throwing up and how his fever was 102, then 103 the second time he told me...PALEASE! I just said, I don't need the details, and I would see him tomorrow....(or not)
Now, mind you, I had a fever yesterday, and have this damn cold complete with sore throat, chest congestion and sinus congestion....but I went to work today! These kids today are a bunch of wussies! Suck it up and do your job...
What a nice day it was today...wish I could have run after work and REALLY enjoy the weather...oh well...maybe some day I will be able to do that again.
Kyle drove again today...said he did better today than the first day. Seems to enjoy the process so far. We'll see how he enjoys learning to drive a stick with his Mom...heh heh.
Ok...cheering for Memphis tonight in the big NCAA championship. Picked em from the get go...even ahead of my Duke boys! Go Tigers!!!
Kimmie
Now, mind you, I had a fever yesterday, and have this damn cold complete with sore throat, chest congestion and sinus congestion....but I went to work today! These kids today are a bunch of wussies! Suck it up and do your job...
What a nice day it was today...wish I could have run after work and REALLY enjoy the weather...oh well...maybe some day I will be able to do that again.
Kyle drove again today...said he did better today than the first day. Seems to enjoy the process so far. We'll see how he enjoys learning to drive a stick with his Mom...heh heh.
Ok...cheering for Memphis tonight in the big NCAA championship. Picked em from the get go...even ahead of my Duke boys! Go Tigers!!!
Kimmie
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Cough cough....aaargh!
Yep....finally caved and got that dreaded cold-pray that it's not the flu-thing that has been going around. Feel like a truck ran over me today, but got things done, nevertheless. Who was it that said Women/Moms don't have TIME to be sick...?
So, today, I pulled up the bathroom floor in preparation for the new tiles to be installed on Friday (I hope). Kyle helped too, though he was playing his Guitar "Zero" game while I was getting started, then he came up and said "why didn't you tell me you were doing that?" Uh, Junior, couldn't you hear me banging and scraping away up here??? Talk about being in a zone...these kids with their game systems...jeesh!
Anyhow, we got most of the old stuff pulled up, and after a call in to my little brother house husband, Chris, it looks like that room is done and ready. The kitchen will be a bear to do though...not looking forward to that one. This stuff was so brittle though, I am amazed it hasn't cracked or whatever before now! I cannot wait to see my new tiles down...excited!
Another full week ahead of me...grades due, the moron will be back, Penquis Cap in for my Human Sexuality class in Health, and the dreaded day of the year marking the 11th anniversary of Ken's passing...so taking Friday off as a "mental health" day... Sometimes it seems like it was only a year ago, other times even longer. Miss him still...always will I guess.
Warmer weather is ahead this week...a good thing that can't hurt any of us! Warm air is one thing, but can we see the sun too! PLEEEEEAAASSSE!
OK...off to la la land. Need some sleep.
Nighty night.
So, today, I pulled up the bathroom floor in preparation for the new tiles to be installed on Friday (I hope). Kyle helped too, though he was playing his Guitar "Zero" game while I was getting started, then he came up and said "why didn't you tell me you were doing that?" Uh, Junior, couldn't you hear me banging and scraping away up here??? Talk about being in a zone...these kids with their game systems...jeesh!
Anyhow, we got most of the old stuff pulled up, and after a call in to my little brother house husband, Chris, it looks like that room is done and ready. The kitchen will be a bear to do though...not looking forward to that one. This stuff was so brittle though, I am amazed it hasn't cracked or whatever before now! I cannot wait to see my new tiles down...excited!
Another full week ahead of me...grades due, the moron will be back, Penquis Cap in for my Human Sexuality class in Health, and the dreaded day of the year marking the 11th anniversary of Ken's passing...so taking Friday off as a "mental health" day... Sometimes it seems like it was only a year ago, other times even longer. Miss him still...always will I guess.
Warmer weather is ahead this week...a good thing that can't hurt any of us! Warm air is one thing, but can we see the sun too! PLEEEEEAAASSSE!
OK...off to la la land. Need some sleep.
Nighty night.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Strike 3....
My moron of a student teacher pulled the biggest "boner" of the semester today. He shows up late to work...strolling down the hall after the bell has already rung signaling first period. I am already moving up the hallway to my first period study hall, wondering where this kid is, when I see him come walking towards me amid a sea of students. He smiles and says he's sorry...I just kept walking and said "You gotta get here a lot earlier than this!" I was livid! To make matters worse, I get no reason as to WHY he is late to begin with.
So I start class, and begin emailing his advisor, he comes up and says he needs to go to the bathroom because he thinks he is going to be sick...That's right super sibs....the boy was hung over! That was my assumption, and I am standing by it based on the way he looked, the fact that I got NO explanation, and the way he improved as the morning wore on! What an idiot!
Wouldn't you think after the "come to Jesus" meeting I had with him last week he would figure this out, and realize that he cannot screw up anymore! This kid is on his way out the door...I was so tempted to up and ask him how the party was last night, or say, 'so, what are you...hung over or something?' Now I wish I had!
Then the rest of the day, he is hanging by my side when he should be supervising the students more while I am doing busy work on this computer...when the I.T. guy came in and was helping me with a chart I was making, he comes up and stands there listening when he should have been moving among the kids. I had to tell him to go watch the students...WHY do I have tell him something he should know??? He actually told me today that he thinks he is good at being explicit with directions etc...that it was his strength! SO SHOW ME THAT ALREADY!
Has NOT been a good day! I have a call in to his Professor...he will be really pissed, I am sure of that knowing him. This could be the end of this kid's trail at Old Town High School! I will keep you posted. He is not in tomorrow...seminar all day...and I have a feeling he is going to get one heck of a tongue lashing.
Kyle drove a car today! Yikes....and now I have to go buy him pizza ingredients for a biology project...he is making a cross section of an animal cell and using the toppings for all the organelles in the cell membrane. It's a pain in the butt for me, but a good idea nevertheless.
TTFN AND TGIF (tomorrow)
Kim who is LOSING IT in the gym
So I start class, and begin emailing his advisor, he comes up and says he needs to go to the bathroom because he thinks he is going to be sick...That's right super sibs....the boy was hung over! That was my assumption, and I am standing by it based on the way he looked, the fact that I got NO explanation, and the way he improved as the morning wore on! What an idiot!
Wouldn't you think after the "come to Jesus" meeting I had with him last week he would figure this out, and realize that he cannot screw up anymore! This kid is on his way out the door...I was so tempted to up and ask him how the party was last night, or say, 'so, what are you...hung over or something?' Now I wish I had!
Then the rest of the day, he is hanging by my side when he should be supervising the students more while I am doing busy work on this computer...when the I.T. guy came in and was helping me with a chart I was making, he comes up and stands there listening when he should have been moving among the kids. I had to tell him to go watch the students...WHY do I have tell him something he should know??? He actually told me today that he thinks he is good at being explicit with directions etc...that it was his strength! SO SHOW ME THAT ALREADY!
Has NOT been a good day! I have a call in to his Professor...he will be really pissed, I am sure of that knowing him. This could be the end of this kid's trail at Old Town High School! I will keep you posted. He is not in tomorrow...seminar all day...and I have a feeling he is going to get one heck of a tongue lashing.
Kyle drove a car today! Yikes....and now I have to go buy him pizza ingredients for a biology project...he is making a cross section of an animal cell and using the toppings for all the organelles in the cell membrane. It's a pain in the butt for me, but a good idea nevertheless.
TTFN AND TGIF (tomorrow)
Kim who is LOSING IT in the gym
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