Fadedwords

Happy Birthday to my wonderful boyfriend.  A weekend of fun is coming your way.

I’m overwhelmed.

And over my head.

Today is the first day back for students.  It was an exciting morning, full of smiling faces and anxious faces.  The children are adorable, and some of the littler ones are looking around in such wonder. 

Highlights of my day:

• Stepping out into the hallway and finding a first grade class practicing walking in a straight line.  Their teacher introduced them to me and then they all said, “Hello Ms. M!”  It was far too fun telling them what wonderful ‘dragonflies’ (our school mascot) they were being in the hallway.
• Making a ‘magic wand’ for one of my first lessons in class.  I actually got to go to the art room and say, “Do you have any paper towel rolls?  I need to make a magic wand,” without someone looking at me as if I’d lost my mind.

It’s been a good day.  Hard to believe it’s almost over.  Other accomplishments include:

• Character Ed lesson plans done up until November.  I still have some tweaking to do on some of them, but otherwise they’re complete.
• All of my letters/memos regarding EOG testing are done.  I don’t have dates for everything yet, but my master copy is done.
• Made contact with our sister school’s counselor and got some helpful advice.
• Completed my ‘Intro to Counselor’ lesson plans.  Hopefully I can get into classrooms this week to do those.
• Started planning my trip to the North Carolina School Counselors’ Association Fall Conference.

I still have my wisdom teeth.  I had to Google the term, because right now I simply cannot comprehend why anyone would call them that.  Unless they’re referring to the very thorough lesson they teach you about pain.  Of course, they’re called that because you get them late in life when you are “wiser”.  The person who thought that up can kiss both my left and right ass cheek.

Insurance for teachers is piss poor here.  This includes dental… or I guess I should say it doesn’t include dental.  To get dental you have to have a supplemental insurance plan that has extremely ridiculous copays and deductables.  It makes it pretty much impossible for me to go to the dentist right now and even think about getting this taken care of. 

I should’ve done it a long time ago, but like many people I have a pretty severe phobia of the dentist.  It has no rhyme or reason; I’ve never had a cavity or any other problem with my teeth.  I’m scared nonetheless. 

Hopefully this will be done aching so terribly by Sunday.  I slept maybe four hours last night, and less the night before.  I really need to be better rested before Monday.  I have to impart real wisdom to youngsters starting bright and early.

Things were better yesterday, and even though I’m busy today in my office, it’s going well today.  It’s going to be a slow process here, which I perhaps should have expected.  It’s difficult to go from a place where you have many friends that you work with, to a place where you have none.

It will come.
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