Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Today stunk even more than I thought it would

We're watching Rent tonight. We're kind of on a crazy movie kick. I'm not doing the best job of paying attention though which is no good cause this movie is really hard to understand without paying attention. I love the music from it though.
Having three fill-ins was as out of control as I thought it would be. The kids know when to push the limits and try to play staff because new staff doesn't know what they're doing. So kids were really crazy. I did a 25 minute restraint. Well let me rephrase that, I did 25 minutes of about a half hour restraint before my arm that I was leaning on was shaking so bad that I had to switch out. I have a nice dental impression of the kid's teeth on my arm as well as some scratches on my other arm and across my nose, and bruises and bite marks on my knee from where he bit me there. I was pretty mad. The good news is at least the bite didn't break the skin so I don't have to go through the blood work for that.
We had a meeting after work that was the most upsetting meeting I've ever attended there. Tyler, my coworker that I talk about and my best guy friend at work, has been sick for a while and his face has been all swollen up. Finally yesterday they admitted him to the hospital and they think it's lymphoma. We're not sure how far progressed or what treatment (chemo or radiation) he'll have or if he'll be back to work soon or not for a long time or what . . . He's only 24 which is scary. Dan, the other guy I love at work and one of Tyler's good friends, was so upset during the meeting he had to put his sunglasses on. After the meeting he didn't get up. He just stayed in his desk for a little bit. Paula and I stayed to see if he was ok and he just said really softly that he's had it. He's only like 25ish now but when he was 18 he had lymphoma. He had chemo and lost 30 pounds and his hair but is fine now.
So Liz and I are going to try to go see Tyler after we each get off work tomorrow night. So now I'm trying to make lesson plans for his class because I'm subbing indefinitely right now (luckily there's only like 8 days of school left). At the same time I'm trying to run the counselors and have a plan for who's in what classroom, who's doing transports, etc . . . It's a little overwhelming. I feel like I'm trying to run 30,000 different things at the same time.
So anyways I'm feeling completely stressed out and I'm hoping that things get better.
And my dear friend Ms. Scheitlin is soon on her way to that crazy state of Iowa. So tomorrow is my last night with her. Hopefully I'll have some time with her and not have to stay up too late since I've been getting up at 5:30 every morning this week and tomorrow will probably be 5 so that I can shower and get to work to do my restraint and injury paperwork. It'll be a sad time without her! I will miss my movie buddy. I don't think Lou Lou will do as good of a job. She's a bit high maintenance!
Well I better get back to learning about trees and clouds so that I can run a classroom tomorrow.


Quote of the Entry:
"There's only us
There's only this ...
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
No other road
No other way
No day but today"
~ "Life Support" from Rent

1 Comments:

Blogger slens04 said...

I'm sorry you had a bad day! Lucky for you, today is a new day and it is going to go well.

12:15 PM  

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