Let's Do the Time Warp Again

Ok, ok, I realize that the last time I posted the internet had just been invented. Shoot me, I've nothing to talk about. All I do is work. This is what my blog would look like if I had posted:
Oct 23
Went home from work, watched TV, prepared chemistry lessons then when to bed early.
Oct 24
Went home from work, watched TV, prepared chemistry lessons then when to bed early.
Oct 25
Went home from work, watched TV, prepared chemistry lessons then when to bed early.
....
You get the point. My life is repetitively boring.

This past weekend I went to a Halloween party. I dressed up again as a swing kid but this time it was even more historically accurate. I drew lines up the back of my legs just like they did back in the day when there were no nylons. I was super cute.

After supper and games, we went 5-pin bowling. I was so excited. I love bowling with all my heart and soul. At first I wasn't doing that well since I was bowling in a dress. I lost my sympathy after bowled 4 strikes in a row.

Because we are not allowed to dress up in costumes at my school so we had a pajama day instead. I wore my Super Girl jammies. You'd think any day where you wear Super Girl jammies to school would be super awesome but it wasn't. It is Halloween and the boys were more stupid than normal. (Boys ages 12 - 17 are significantly more stupid then any other age range, it's science).

I'm weak for fashion

In Canada, Project Runway is a couple weeks behind the original airing. So it is really hard to be surprised. I knew the finale was aired last night. I tried to be strong and not find out but I was overcome by temptation. Oh well, I'll still watch it even though I know who wins.

Pop Culture Amiss

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who hated last night's Gilmore Girls. I agree, Snakes on the Plane references are so August 19th.
Snakes on a 'Gilmore' girl

The Punches Keep on Rolling

The last two nights in a row, I have gone to bed 2.5 hours later than usual because I had too much work to do for school. Last night I was nearly in tears with frustration trying to write a chemistry test. I just wanted to go to bed.

This morning when I got to school my computer would not boot up. A bunch of marking that I was going to do before school did not get done because the answer key was on the computer and I did not get the new one done in time. Most of the documents on the computer were backed up on a memory stick. The only thing that I can't recover is the class attendance since the beginning of the year. I can recreate as best I can from this week but I can't remember beyond that.

The combination of not getting enough sleep and all the chaos that followed left me frazzled all day.

There is something going on at the school right now but I'm not sure what. About a half hour after school dismissed, several students returned. They are all being interviewed by a police officer. I can only hear bits and pieces and it is only making me more curious.

Older than I Look

The general consensus of staff and students is that I look like a high school student. You would think 10 years after I finished high school I would look different. Of course wearing sparkly union flag shirts does not help.

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Pukefest 2006

I'm paranoid I'm getting the flu. In the past two days I have had 3 separate students running out of the classroom to throw up. It is a bit of an epidemic in the school right now.

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Blah

I feel so defeated. I was marking quizzes last night and I suspect 4 students cheated. How could I not have noticed? These students frustrate me so much.

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Immodesty Abounds

Where did women get the idea that it is attractive to wear pants so tight you could see their future grandchildren ?

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Crazy Train

If you want to know the general mental health of a certain population, ride public transit.

Tuesday morning, while waiting for the train to arrive, a man was tackling a pillar repeatedly. Excuse me, sir, that pillar is not going anywhere.

A couple stops later, man came into the train car telling himself loud, boisterous, nonsensical stories. Occasionally he laugh uproariously at what he said. There is something unsettling about one person laughing loudly when no one else is talking.

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Like a Record, Baby

Of course I have to get sick on my only long weekend before Christmas. I wouldn't have it any other way. This afternoon I was working on report car marks and I was feeling pretty tired. I wanted to have a short nap but 2.5 hours later my brother woke me up.
When I got out of bed the whole room was spinning. I have not been this dizzy since I was about 6 years old and experienced the worst flu of my life. I only got out of bed so I could visit with my family while my brother was over. My mommy went out and bought me some gravol. I feel better but not great. I can at least sit upright.

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Into the Mind of Janny

I am such a dork that last night I had to nap at 10:30 pm so I could make the rest of the 1.5 hour trip back to my parent's house. This is from a girl who for the past 6 years had a hard time getting to bed before 1 am. My how the times have changed. I go to bed at 10 pm and that is too late for me. I really wish I could be in bed with the lights off by 9:30 pm. May I reiterate? I am such a dork.

I have lots of experience traveling long hours by myself. It amuses me the things I do to entertain myself on long trips:
- think of new and witty comebacks for all occasions
- imagining this big jock dude doing an interpretive dance to poetry. (He should have never told me about that assignment from university. I am offering a reward of my first born child, 1 million dollars and my wooden wiener dog book ends for anyone that can track down the tape).
- yelling out road signs in a monster-truck-commercial-announceresque voice. "Thunder Creek Road! Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!"
- practicing the song "Radar Love". It drives me crazy that I accidentally sing "nude sunrise" instead of "new sunrise".

I make myself laugh.

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Blast from the Past

Space has started showing episodes of The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. So Awesome.

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Clean Machine

I had a rip roaring time this weekend. My big excitement included cleaning the Venetian blinds, kitchen and bathroom. I also managed to be in bed before 11 every night and up before 7. Tonight to cap off my big weekend, I will be in bed by 10. I am the life of the party.

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Scientific Time Efficiency

I was doing last minute lesson planning when I realized that my entire grade 12 Physics class is in my Chemistry class. I was planning to review that same basic principles of science in both classes but what's the point? Why teach the same group of students the same thing twice? I'm just going to go on with the next lesson.

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Important science lesson

16 inches is very different than 16 centimetres.

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Dollar Store Bargains

My school is by the best dollar store EVER! Honestly everything is a dollar or less. For school I bought for less than $22.

• 7 measuring tapes


• 2 boxes of tissues


• 5 bags of marbles


• 4 stackable storage boxes


• 2 rolls or masking tape

Bargin.

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Tattling Students and Strange Co-Workers

I'm a little annoyed right now. Earlier this week I had 4 students show up 5 minutes before class was over. They are upset that they were marked absent and not let into class. You're kidding me, right? They were so upset they went and complained to the school director. Among there other complaints: sometimes I make mistakes when working out math, chemistry or physics problems.

****Newsflash: Janny is not perfect and sometimes makes mistakes.******

These kids are ridiculous. The director called me into his office to tell me I need to let the students know that teachers make mistakes too. I seriously have to tell them that? That is something they don't know?

On a less annoying but more curious note, one of my co-workers has been acting strange all morning. Whenever he sees me, he stops, looks right at me and says nothing. If I ask him what he is doing, he says nothing. It is a little unsettling.

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Weirdest Thing I've Yelled at the TV in a Long Time

"For serious? A beret? You have to be kinding me."

Thanks Roger, now "for serious" is part of my everyday speech. I started out using it as a joke now it I started using it for serious.

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The Busy Just Got Busier

Yesterday I was asked to coach the junior girls basketball team. I teach at a small school and there has never been enough interest by female students for a girls' team. I have never coached basketball by myself before. At my previous school, a community member coached the team and I helped out. Legally a teacher has to be present at all practices and games.

I'm glad that girls are showing interest in sports at this school (whose population is predominately Muslim). However, right now I barely have enough time to sleep and eat with my schedule. I have yearbook meetings starting today and basketball starting in a couple weeks. I might possibly die.

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Useless

This afternoon was a complete bust. I taught my lessons but it was impossible to get the students to work on what they were supposed to. These were the questions they asked me this afternoon:

1) How much cobalt-60 is needed to make a nuclear bomb?

2) What is cancer? How does cancer start? Why isn't there a cure for cancer?, etc

3) "Why did some dude invent pi?"

4) How do we know that these formulas [sic] are right?

5) Why did they decide how to arrange the periodic table?

6) "Were swears the same way back when you were in high school?"

There were many other questions relating to a belief that all the sciences were a mass conspiracy that nothing was actually true. As one student put it "There is no one someone could have figure that out."

It was only Wednesday, I hate to see what they are like on Friday.

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Hope for the best

My expensive graphing calculator went missing and I fear a student might have stole it. I never leave my class unlocked so it doesn't make sense. I really hoping I just put it somewhere weird and it will turn up.

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Welcome Wagon

Only one more sleep until Veronica Mars. I may burst with excitement.

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Bad Teacher

I "borrowed" a garden gnome on Saturday night.  I took part in a scavenger hunt at a birthday party and the item said "a lawn ornament".  I only hope it is returned or that would be stealing.

Today I bent my glasses with a Donkey Kong (spinning) top.  My glasses were sitting on the table and the top got a little out of control.  I confiscated the top from a student now it is all mine.  Of course, I only use it for very scientific purposes. I love double standards. 

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