Feeling like a loser

I've determined that the teacher career path leads you straight to loser-dom. My whole weekend was taken away (and it was a 3 day weekend) because of cheerleading, grading papers, getting ready for homecoming and general lesson-planning. Even though I had Friday off and I got to go to the Texas State Fair I still feel like I never have any fun anymore. This weekend will be no different since it is our homecoming and Thursday-Saturday will be filled with a plethora of activities and I shall have no free time yet again.
At least it's almost October, another month down and 6 and a half-ish to go...or is it 7? I have no idea!

Another thing that makes me feel like a loser is that I'm exhausted all the time and I live for the weekends just to sleep in. Did I just end my sentence with a preposition, darn. Plus with allergy season at it's height I've been feeling like death for days. And Brady has allergies, and my ma has allergies....it's like the outside wants us all to feel like crap. I can't wait until winter comes and cold knocks everything out....but then people starting getting the flu.


I'm just doomed.

Well I have cheer pictures today yes, on a Sunday the day of rest...so I must be going.

When I think about it....

I know a lot of smart people. I remember back in high school when we used to label people by how smart, athletic, pretty, punk, goth and whatever you want to throw in there ,were. My friends and I always considered ourselves part of the smart group with a little bit of punk thrown in (by yours truly). Now that I think about, we were all really smart. We were the kids who finished our homework on time, studied several HOURS for tests AND still had time to go out and party.
When I think about my family we constantly have the same conversation about who is the smartest, who has more education, who makes more money etc. all of which have the same answer: dad.....And then my younger brother started writing a blog, the more I read it the more I feel like I'm reading something my father wrote. We are all intelligent and I'm just lucky to be a part of it all.
I never write anything serious like this because I don't like being serious most of the time, so let's end it with a funny like Master Splinter would...

"I have the herpes, you know when you burp and have the hiccups at the same time" hiccups+burps=herpes or hurpes whatever. GET IT?

Dude we're at Wal-Mart!

Arlington Pentago Christian Academy is in a Wal-Mart...and that is where our game was tonight, which we won 54 or so to a big fat 0. My cheer girls were okay, they repeated a lot of the same cheers and they kept competing with the cheerleaders from the other team. If I had to chose a winner I would chose my girls, not because their mine, but because we were more together and we did a better half-time routine!!

I was also subject to a bus full of junior high football players for an hour and a half after the game. Let me tell you, if you don't remember what its like to be in junior high...
1. You are still trying to figure out the whole 'deodorant' thing so after 2 hours of playing in the sun you smell pretty ripe.
2. Texting (in my case we did have texts, we had notes) is the sneakiest way to talk to the opposite sex...AND this is the only way you can make a 'date'
3. Yelling is always appropriate
4. The more you fart/belch..etc...the cooler you are.

And that pretty much sums up junior high children, ooh and knowing who the "cool" teacher is makes you seem cooler by association.

I'm going to let you guess who they think the "cool" teacher is this year.

Funny things part tres

So I've been sick for the past week and most of the funny things my students have said were towards me and how strange I sound/act when on medication. There are also random students stalking my facebook.

1. Ms. Tutwiler I AM NOT A STALKER! I only checked your facebook twice.....a day for the past two weeks.

2. Student:Mr. Bo is watching you outside through the window.
Me: Oh, I think he's just monitoring me (while putting my shoes back on)
Student: To make sure your not beating us?
Me: Something like that yes.
Student #3: Is that why you put your shoes back on?

3. Ms. T is never going to come back next year to teach if we keep acting this way!!! GOSH YOU GUYS ARE LOUD!!!

A couple of my students (who I've figured out are pretty liberal for their age/location/religion etc) try to stump me on music and politics on a daily basis. So today they were playing hangman (I was watching a class where a teacher was absent) and they picked Toxicity by System of a Down. Apparently only the cool hip kids who rebel against their republican parents listen to such music, and so I schooled them on SOAD and Serj and blew their minds. Not really but I pretty much win brownie points with them every time I let them into my world. Not that I need those brownie points mind you, I'm pretty amazing all by myself without them!

I've decided that even with the daily headaches, constant reprimanding, hundreds of graded papers...the whole nine yards, I like teaching.

And that is something I'd never thought I'd say; in this case the good really does out-weigh the bad.

ACHOO!

Sick.
First year teachers be warned...if you have students who are sick, you are most likely to catch whatever they have...ugh! I've been sick since Monday night and this week was probably the worst week to get sick, and I've decided that that is why I got sick. You never get sick when you have nothing going on, if you are just chillen at home for the weekend...you won't be sick; if you have a week full of activities...you'll probably get sick. I'm sort of hoping that hurricane Ike gets hear soon and that tomorrow night's game gets rained out, I can't really afford to hang out all night outside.
oooooh cheerleading....and 3 of my girls told me they were quitting before basketball season, that leaves me with 3...and that is if the other girls stay...doubt it!

My nose won't stop running.
Sick.

MTV VMA's

One thing about this year's VMA's that we could expect to hear about: Britney Spears, well she didn't give us a bad performance just a pretty plain Britney but considering our options I'll take plain over crazy any day.
And Russel Brand...I'm not sure if he translates into American humor very well, plus his beginning monolouge was mostly about voting for Barack Obama. Can't I just watch trashy television without hearing about some pop culture hippy man talk about politics?
Here is what I don't understand...the Jonas Brothers, where did they come from and how are they popular, I mean really?! If Hanson didn't last in the 90's then how do these, possibly even cheesier boys, drive girls all over the nation crazy? Think about it...Hanson: 3 boys, brothers, long blonde hair, high pitched voices singing about love and mmmbops. Jonas Brothers: 3 boys brothers, long brown hair, high pitched voices singing about love and other words I can't understand in that frequency. They performed tonight, the first 2 minutes consisted of the 3 boys sitting on a psuedo new york stoop swinging their curly locks to what else? A love song. Then they "jammed" out for about 30 seconds with the middle Jonas brother screaming and trying to be rock relevant, sadly for him he didn't quite deliver. I understand Miley Cyrus because we've had slews of pop princesses for years, but the Jonas Brothers will run their 15 minute timer out REAL quick.
Hmmm what else, OH YES young weezy or lil wayne or millionaire man, whatever his name is performed. With his pants halfway down his butt he once again told the world how rich he is and the crowd of millionaires loved him, ugh! But I'm not going to lie I listen to Lil' Wayne on the radio because his songs are catchy...I do not however listen to T Pain because he can't sing and he should never be allowed out of his studio. If all your songs are done on synthesizer how do you expect to sing live? AND why do rappers insist on hanging on to their crotch? I think it's because they need some sort of security blanket. If they didn't grab their crotch then what on earth would they do with their hands, they definitely wouldn't bust out some sweet dance moves.

Ooooo Miley Cyrus is up next....let the pedophiles rejoice, underage jail bait who doesn't mind flaunting her body to millions of Internet hungry photo stealers.

That's all I have to rant about for now, I think.



P.S. MTV said that the Twilight book series has trumped Harry Potter...I beg to differ, and I'm sure J.K. would too.

Mad

I am so angry! I can not believe that someone who claims to be a 'best friend' would say those kind of things and then not expect me to hear about it!!! Are you stupid? Not only do you never talk to him, not an email, barely a phone call....and then you say 'well we'll see' like you don't believe its possible that your best friend could be happy.
No wonder your single. What girl would want to be with a guy like you?

I have only been this mad at a person once before, but this....this totally takes the cake. I don't understand why people just can't keep their mouths shut. Just because you are single, unhappy, living with your parents at 25 doesn't mean that you get to bring other people down with you.

People grow up, they get married. Get over it. And get over yourself.