Just One of 'dem Days...

... that a teacher goes through. Wake up with a head ache and realize you're out of Advil. Overhear boys in one of your favorite classes talking about how much cooler their past art teachers have been*.  Realize you forgot your lunch on the kitchen table.** Try out a new lesson you are soooo excited about, only to have it Bomb Completely*** in front of a new parent volunteer and be  interrupted by a fire drill**** and subsequent malfunctioning fire alarm*****. Foreget a major part of your homework for grad class at home.

*Suppressing tears
** Various expletives (to myself of course)
*** Snapping at kids when it's not their fault
****More expletives (under breath)
*****Really? Laughable at this point
******Suck it up and deal.

I mean, everyone has days like this. No matter how long you've been doing something or how prepared you think you are... stuff's gonna go wrong.  Stuff that is your fault (probably the most frustrating) and stuff that you can't control (the most annoying).

This post is not necessarily an advice post, but really, I just needed to vent. But you know what else? As I gain more and more life experience, I realize how quickly days like this will pass and I will be 99% likely to completely forget it. So, I have learned to try to focus on the good things that happened today.

Woke up to a clean apartment because the cleaning lady that my landlord pays for came yesterday. Listened to my favorite cheesy Christmas songs on my extra-short-today commute to work. Got compliments from teachers about a project I just put on display in the library. Realize the clay did NOT explode in the kiln like everyone was saying it would. Made my 4th graders laugh and smile. Got hugs from 1st graders. Found plenty of goodies to eat for lunch in the teachers' lounge. Got out of an afternoon obligation that gave me the much needed time to recover from my lesson that Bombed Completely. Got to vent about everything on my blog. Eat pizza leftovers for dinner. Catch up on the DVR. Get 8 hours of sleep and see if tomorrow is any better.

:)