I've spent this weekend hibernating in my apartment. I feel kind of lame for not acting like the socialite I know I can be but I'll be honest here, I've been feeling kind of disappointed.
You know when you're a teenager and you're parents catch you doing something you aren't supposed to be doing? And then they say something like, "I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed in you." And that was the WORST.
I remember one particular incident from high school in which I was grounded forever and could actually feel the waves of disappointment coming off of my parents for weeks. I think I cried every day I was grounded.
Well, this time I am the disappointed one and I am not so happy with humanity.
This week alone, I have experienced:
1. The stupidest lie from a student that involved him lying to me THREE times (this is actually funny and disappointing, there will be a post about it later)
2. A parent that I contacted THREE times about her son failing (which she never returned the calls) show up to harass me about his grade
3. A parent try to involve me in his hostile feelings for his ex-wife and harass me about his sons grade
4. A parent demand I change one of her son's grade
5. A student deface school property
6. Another teacher yell at me because she didn't agree with my teams policy on morning duty
7. A student deface themselves
8. And finally.. a parent blame me for number 5's misbehavior
I have always considered myself an extrovert, which as my friend Rachel describes is someone who is "energized by being around other people." I have never questioned my extrovert status... until now.
There's no way college can prepare you for the feelings you get when people are just flat out rude.
For the last three weeks, I had been feeling so stressed and tense. This week those feelings finally went away and were replaced with this instead.
I hope next week brings something positive.
This is what I am doing right now. NOT working on the Jeopardy game for my students to play tomorrow. Just thinking of things I can write about in my blog, checking old emails, reading every online article I can find... but defiantly NOT working on what needs to be done tomorrow. 