First Week of Substitute Teaching

I hate Junior Highs...the children are crazy...the teachers weird and high strung. How do people do it and keep their sanity? I spent my entire day today asking kids to please quiet down, and to please lower to voices and to take a time out so they could be quiet. It was awful. Yesterday was a similar experience; however, the students were only evil in the afternoon, so it was moderately tolerable. God help me! And all the hallway lines and the "I have to pee", "he hit me". I hate having kids get in lines and they had this thing where they had to stand boy, girl, boy girl...really? have you ever tried to get sixth graders to stand next to someone of the opposite sex? It's not cool.

I'm looking forward to spending most of next week substitute teaching for the Agri Science teacher at a High School. How bad can it be...I don't have to put kids in lines and I can tell them no to going to the bathroom without fear of them failing to hold their bladder.

Oh yea and Texas has a pledge of allegiance to the Texas flag...then they have a "moment of silence" let's just say I may have spoken at the exact moment she was announcing the moment of silence. How was I supposed to know???

Oppresive Television

There was absolutely nothing on television tonight. Normally I do not complain about television shows - if I dislike it then I don't watch it and I move on with my life. However, I made the horrid mistake of watching the new sitcom The Winner tonight. Seriously? This is by far the worst excuse for a tv entertainment that I have ever seen. There was no plot...the main actor is awful and his character worthless and mildly creepy. I just don't understand how networks like FOX can't manage to develop good television. I guess they were so busy wasting their time looking for new reality tv shows they weren't paying attention to what else was going on air. I give this show a few thumbs down for being thoughtless, creepy (not a good creepy the bad creepy like the weird neighbor you avoid), and without imagination.

Well I'm off to make a smoothie and read my book...I wish I would have done that an hour ago and missed out on this oppressive television.