Oh What a Day!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, we all have a bad day at work. I didn't have a bad day at work, I had an odd one. Let me set the stage. The teacher that I work with is expecting her first child at the end of February. Funny thing about being pregnant, its something you can't hide. Therefore, unless you are totally clueless you have to know that a substitute is going to be needed. This woman only has two weeks left until she needs to go out on well-deserved maternity leave. Now I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed but I think we should know who the replacement is by now. Well I guess this week and next are open audition weeks. Nothing wrong with that except anyone wishing an audition seems to think that this woman herself has to plan the lesson. Call me old-fashioned but if you are going to be responsible for a class, I think you should be able to plan your own lesson. Anyway, back to my day.
At 9 this morning I had to cover a class. I was a little excited about this because I knew most of the children from last year. This was a well-behaved 1st grade and it was great to see how the kids progressed. I was left a lesson to do with them that was timed perfectly. I was told a "specials" teacher would be in to take over and I would assist her. What do you know? The lesson went smoothly but Ms. Special ws 10 minutes late. Have you ever entertained 20 first graders with no work to do? It can get messy. Survived that and returned to my kindergarten class. When I got there one of the auditioners was already there worrying about rearranging furniture and sticking letters to a blackboard. I guess this auditioner wanted the teacher herself to do this but since I was already covering a class, somebody actually had to teach the class. The joke of this was that she was there a good 45 minutes before she was to audition. This is not Broadway, its kindergarten! I can't tell you what a disruption it was to the kids (me too!). They were all off schedule. In the middle of all this preparation, the plumber comes in to fix the toilet bowl. If you have ever had 25 five and six year old kids in one room that needed a toilet and there wasn't one to use then you understand the fear that could put into someones heart and soul. Once again, the possibilities are not pretty! This in itself is really not that bad but the plumber, he was no ordinary plumber. Oh no. This plumber was the guy who gave me my first grown-up Valentine card when we were in school. He has had a crush on me as long as I could remember. I hadn't seen him in a few years but today was the day. Guess what? Of curse I looked like crap and I'm fighting a cold. Not that it matters but this could only happen to me. Now even after all of this, and here is the best part, the audition was postponed. That's right. We have to go through all of this again tomorrow and possibly next week. And to add insult to injury, my plumber still hasn't fixed the toilet bowl. Don't ask me what he did with his "snake" but it wasn't fixing the bowl. Thank God tomorrow is Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, that's it for today. It's 5 o'closk somewhere and I'm gonna toast myself, except I actually use toast. Oh the weight gain! Goodnight.