Old Bat

So, quite a bit of stuff happened today, but none of it is really anecdote material so I won’t go into much of it. At lunch Peer Support had a table in the foyer advertising the Film Fest. I had to hand slips of paper out to people I didn’t know (scary) and that took all lunch hour. I didn’t have a chance to get my math binder, so I had to rush to math, plead my case to the teacher (who was ready to bite my head off), get my stuff and then run back to class before the bell.

Arg. That teacher… if you hate kids that much, why would you become a teacher? It’s like our very presence disgusts her. If you can’t ever have any fun with your students, doesn’t the day in and day out of school get boring and depressing? It would for me. I mean, you’re already teaching the same material every year, and you don’t even take advantage of the fact that you have a different set of students every semester. Variety is good. I’m sure Mrs. Webber and Mrs. Macdonell go home every day and say to their families, “One of my students said something so funny today!” What does my math teacher say to her family, I wonder. No doubt something along the lines of, “I didn’t allow the stupid scum students to talk to each other today and they don’t talk to me about anything besides math, since I ignore them if they do. So, nothing really happened today. This girl named Colleen, or Paulette or something tried to give me this lame excuse that she was at Peer Support all during lunch hour and so she needed to go to her locker. But I didn’t even let her finish her stupid story because I feel the need to interact with those impudent children as little as humanly possible and still teach them the crappiest subject ever invented.”

Well. I feel better now.

Little things about myself have been making me mad lately, and I think it’s stupid to wait until New Year’s to make significant goals for self-improvement. So the big thing is: to talk more slowly and coherantly. To think about what I’m going to say very carefully so I don’t sound stupid and get words mixed up when I say it.