Today, a Holiday

Today is a holiday to celebrate a small aboriginal war that happened in the area. It isn't a holiday for the whole country, or even the province or area, just a few Native Reserves participate. So today, I get to work all day long without any children to get in the way (HA!). I sure would get a lot more done if I didn't have to teach those children, just plan for them.

Cute things that happened so far this year:
"Look at you working so hard , you're on fire!"
"What?! Where?!" student starts looking at her clothes.
"No, no, you're not really on fire. You're just working really hard."
"My dad told me never to play with fire."
"Your dad is right."

This one was told to me by a parent of a 5 year old after we had finished our unit on atomic theory (I go hard in Science for the Kindergarten and Grade 1 students).
"Your tire needs some air."
"Air is gas. My tire needs some gas."
"No, your tire needs some air."
"Mom, air is a gas. It's the atomic theory, don't you know."

I told you, I push them hard in science while their brains still work and before they get all sulky in the high school grades. Next step is getting calculus in there too.

Other than that, the kids are fine except we seem to have an epidemic of FFFFFF ing LICE in here and I can't stand it. The health nurse won't come in and all the parents are complaining and what can I do, I am not checking their heads because I have already caught it from them once and I don't want it again. Plus, I can't even tell the student, you have lice, go tell your parents to get the shampoo and clean out the house. It's too embarrassing for them. What the hell? It is rampid here, there is no stopping it. And it all starts in my classroom and then they take it to there siblings and it gets into other classrooms. Today I am fumigating while they aren't here. Lice like clean heads, so I have stopped shampooing my hair and I eat a lot of garlic to keep the kids away from me.

Good ... but bad

So far, things are going really good where I am in my new place in my new job. There is a challenge and good people, I like it.

But ... then, if you remember, about 2 years ago a good friend of mine committed suicide. Then last year about this time a good friend's of mine had another good friend that committed suicide. I just found out a different good friend of mine had a really good friend who just tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide and is being airlifted from his major centre to the majorest centre in this part of the country.

Kind of ... deflating. Kind of mind-numbing. Kind of chest hurting. Kind of hurting.

Different

I have regained partial hearing in my ear! Let there be joy! I still cannot hear if more than one person talks at a time or the pitch of young children (bad for work!) but I can hear.
My ear is still ringing ringing ringing.
Thanks for the concern! I have a nasty viral infection in my ear. Very viral. No matter what antibiotics they gave me, saying that it had to be partially bacterial, it did not respond. Still viral, still ringing. I have given up on the antibiotics, knowing that it is viral, knowing that antibiotics won't do anything, knowing that I don't need to contribute to the growing resistance of antibiotic resistant bugs out there, knowing that the nastier and nastier side-effects of the antibiotics out-weighed any good they could possibly be doing, I am now taking Boneset, a powerful anti-viral herb. And! It is helping. I didn't think of this myself. I got it from my naturopath.
No more bursting, rupturing, bleeding, oozing, screaming pain. I like it!
Oh, and now where I am, I do not have internet access at home, only at work. At work they block everything, to protect the wee chillens' from the devil of the internet. I cannot access anyone's site that is on my daily list.
Please tell me that you are all still alive.

In other words I had a dream last night that I raped my ex. Not nice. Then I just got an email from him. What a coincidence.