Last night I woke up
in the middle of the night not feeling so hot. I actually wasn't
feeling that well when I went to bed, as evidenced by the fact that I
wore my hoodie to bed, which is what I do when I'm not feeling well.
So I woke up in the middle of the night with an upset stomach and
feeling like I was going to throw up. It was great. There was a lot
of pacing and I spent awhile sitting in the recliner in the basement
with a trashcan near me because I was tired of getting in and out of
bed. But, I never actually threw up, so that's something.
Even though today
was early release, there were still three MAP tests. It made for a
long yet fast short day. Nothing exciting happened in any of the
tests, which I guess is a good thing. A couple kids took forever but
that is normal unfortunately.
I hadn't planned on
eating lunch because I was still feeling iffy most of the day but
when lunch rolled around I was hungry so I ate. I also swapped out
the speaker bar on my monitor with a random one in the lab because
mine wasn't working and I was tired of having to plug in my earbuds
every time I wanted to hear something. I'm not a fan of earbuds.
Also, the speaker bars are more often than not pointless on the
computers in the lab because the headphones are plugged in 99.9% of
the time. With the new speaker bar I was able to re-watch the
lecture for this week while I ate.
At one point during
the day I attempted to use the hole-punch for a new project and it
was jammed. Nice of people to jam the thing up and then walk away.
I stupidly picked the thing up and turned it upside down, only to be
greeted by a shower of circular paper confetti. All over the floor.
Awesome. I was going to pick it all up but it was right before the
next test was starting so I had to leave it. One of the teachers
told me not to worry about it because that is what the custodians are
for, but the whole time during the test I kept glancing over at the
workroom across the hall and all the confetti on the floor was
bugging the hell out of me. After school was out I went back over,
sat on the ground, pulled out my Blockbuster card (because I still
keep that in my wallet in case of emergencies) and scraped all the
confetti into a neat pile before sliding it onto the card and
depositing it into the trash. The paper, not the Blockbuster card,
because you never know.
After school I went
home, let the dogs out and back in, and then took a nap. I was going
to do so much reading today because of early-release but then I was
awake in the middle of the night and felt the need to make up for
that. I ended up sleeping until four o'clock, pretty much wiping out
any time advantage that the early release gave me. Oh well, the nap
was nice.
Tonight was Chipotle
night and I still participated even though I was still feeling a
little iffy. I was even nice and got my mom Jimmy Johns because her
stomach is also bothering her. My burrito seemed to go well and it
was pretty tasty, but at the moment I have a very vague feeling in
the back of my throat that I want to throw up. I'm not a fan of that
feeling. I hope I am able to get some sleep tonight.
I didn't have a
visit with the new volunteer kid tonight because of how I was feeling
physically. Which sucks because he actually didn't have to work
tonight. I just didn't want to be out on the highway or interstate
or forty-five minutes away from home if things turned south for me.
So I played it safe and we'll try again next week.
Now, I am going to
finish this up and head back to the new house so I can read more and
then attempt sleep.
One thing that I
forgot to mention yesterday. There were two things but I forgot the
second thing for the second time. One of the kindergarten teachers
left me in the lab with his kids yesterday because he needed to go
wash vomit out of his sandal. A kid wasn't feeling well in the
morning but said he was feeling better after nap time. A short time
later when they were all sitting in a group doing some activity he
said he felt like he was going to throw up so the teacher ran ahead
of him to grab the trashcan. The kid almost made it to the trashcan
before he burped and threw up, maybe getting a little in the trashcan
but it was mostly on the floor and splashed onto the teacher's foot
and sandal.
The teacher escorted
the kid up to the nurse, leaving the kids alone because the teacher
didn't have a para or intern, and when he got back at least one of
the kids was crying because they missed their mom and didn't like the
smell of vomit. I think a lot of the kids were complaining about
that last thing and the teacher had to agree with them when he walked
all the way back into the room so he ended up taking them on a walk
around the playground to kill some time before computer lab. Oh the
joys of being a kindergarten teacher.
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