The end of the semester is near my friends. Only today, Tomorrow and half of Wednesday left to go. The kids are restless and so am I :). Christmas is only 6 days away and wow so much Christmas cheer in the air!! The drama club is setting up/getting ready for the Christmas program tomorrow, which means that Christmas music is blaring from the gym into my room this morning. Not too horrible. I did happen to come down with the worst case of a head cold I could though. Totally sucks right before my big 20 hour travel. That's right folks it's going to take me a total of 20 hours to begin and finish my travel home. It so does not seem like I'm that far away from my family/friends back in Illinois/Indiana.
Speaking of end of semester, Grades snap shots will be taken on January 11th, that means I have until then to get all of my grades done. That seems like a good thing right? Wrong! that means I either have to get ALL grades done before I go on Christmas break, or do them while on Christmas break. I have been slowly milking the students for all of the late work they owe me and in the process getting all those grades caught up, but some students just don't turn in their work! It's actually very frustrating. I'll tell them I have an assignment missing and they will be all "but I did that" and I'll have to say, well then please turn it in because I am missing a grade on it. ugh...high school students should know to turn in work they complete right? Is it asking too much??? I thought so.
Then there is the little matter of the puppy. No I did not get a puppy. I wanted to though. Those pictures in the last couple blogs of the really cute puppy, no not the one with the shield like patch of hair on it's head the cuter one, I wanted her, but then I came to my senses and decided the first year or two in Alaska I didn't want anything tying me down. I want to be able to explore!!! It's not like I wouldn't be able to explore with a puppy, but the chances are less and the places I could go and the length I could be gone would not be as diverse. Yes, I know it sounds a little self-centered, but haven't I earned the right to be a little self-centered my first year of teaching. Besides there will be a puppy in the house I can play with, just not own. Felicia is getting the one with the shield like patch of hair on it's head (yes the cute one referred to earlier), and so I'll be able to play with him when he gets big enough to stay at our house.
Guess who came home sick from work today....yup that's right me. ugh so bad timing!!!! I tried to make it work too but I ended up going home at lunch. I decided when students started telling me my face was red and I looked horrible I should probably stop trying to tough it out and just go home. I have this horrible guilt every time I call in sick. Doesn't matter the job. So of course coupled with my ever present need to be in control of my classroom, I definitely did not want to throw in the towel. But sometimes ya just gotta do what you gotta do. So here I am about ready to go to bed so I can rest up for tomorrow...hopefully I'll be able to go to work tomorrow anyways.
