It's the Cranky Time of Year

Dear Blog,

I am so tired.  You know those seventeen year olds.  They wear me to the ground.  They are coming in night and day, all during class and all throughout my prep period wanting to know if they can still hand this paper in/ retake that one test/ check my grade.  Oh and do you think you could bump up my grade?  I'm only .37 away from the next highest grade you know!

And of course, then there's the parents who are emailing up the ying yang, "My son handed his paper in!" (No he didn't.) "My daughter wasn't late to class!" (Yes she was.) and "My kid deserves an A!" (If coming late every day to class and never handing in work qualifies as an A, then yes. Yes, he does deserve an A.)  It's about the time of year when I start to crack.  Lash out at students.  Send nasty emails to fellow teachers telling them to stop letting their students out of classes so they can come bother me.  Lock myself in my room and ignore the students who are knocking on the door.  (I mean, hey!  It's MY prep period, not their prep period, isn't it?!?)

Sigh.  It's just the cranky time of year.  Also exciting because school's almost out and summer is breathing down my neck but cranky because, wow those teenagers are relentless.

In other news, I wrote this really sweet goodbye letter to my students and got good and choked up while reading it to them today.  I'm going to miss those tike in spite of the fact that they are totally going to drive me to drink.  More on that when I have more energy/less frustration/ more time to put into blogging.  I'm sorry, blog, if you feel like I have semi neglected you this month.  It has been one of the craziest months of my life and it has been all I could do to sit down and write a couple of sentences.  Thanks for sticking with me.

This is my wall of writing resolutions.  After I turn back papers and give the students notes about what I noticed were problem areas with their writing, I make them tell me what they will fix next time.  Then I slap those resolutions on the wall.  You gotta love Jesus' sticky resolution- keeping it basic for that guy.

In other news, I've got the fab Gia here to show you her illustrations and other pure awesomeness.  This isn't Gia's first time around the block, or first time on Life of Bon, for that matter.  The girl knows what's she doing and one of these days I am going to make her draw a picture of me teaching my class and hang it on my wall and think of Gia everytime I see it.  Or something equally strange.

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I'm doing this guest post while REALLY trying hard to listen to the lecture. I really do hate finance with a burning passion, I knew I should have listened to my friends and became an escort instead (sigh)

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