little mee continues making me laugh. it seems she has something on the bottom of her shoe.

ain’t delirium grand?

as i do with a huge cold/fluey thing about once a year. it always feels like the end of the wor;d.

can one catch the cold of the century from a first grader throwing up on one?

those six-pack things? abdominals?  they hurt from coughing and i don’t even have any!  maybe i broke myself.

i don’t like leaving the kids.  not any of them in particular, i just don’t like leaving them.  we just started.  some of them were so glad to see me.  and now i will be gone.  i made the principal say that i could say goodbye before i go, not just disappear like my predecessor at the second school.  i’ll need to figure out a way to explain it that will make sense to them.  ha.

of the day, but only because it consisted mostly of my planning time.  standing out on the corner crosswalk at 7:30 in the mug and i was sure i was going to faint with this sickness.  i taught one class of 2nd graders, go a lot of business done (joined the union) and threw in the towel taking half a day sick leave.
it seems that i will be employed somewhere as something, i’m hoping it will be as an art teacher, but employed nonetheless.  it could even be a better situation than the one i’m leaving, let’s hope, huh?  i could actually have a room!  i could be 5 days at one school!  it could not be 30 miles away!  i could flap my arms and fly to the moon!

at present, there is nothing to be done until the deck shuffles out.  except get this junk under control so i can go back to work.  i tried a new antihistamine at walgreens on the way home, it seems to be a bit better.  coming home was weird as, since i’ve had this since friday, there isn’t any sense that if i just stayed home this afternoon i’d get a handle on it.  i can stay home this afternoon and, if necessary tomorrow, i suppose, but unless there’s some improvement i need to figure out a way to work through it.  not today, though; i thought i was going to faint in front of the kids!  cold sweats.  i had this same illness last year about this time, i remember i couldn’t talk when i started this job.  i can talk now, but it’s the same kind of thing.  can’t hear.  drowning in goo.

i managed to cancel just about everything i bought over the weekend.  the wonders of shopping online—i even got to england on time to prevent them from shipping the knitting kit.  even my technoology class, which i was supposed to start next week, canceled for lack of enrollment giving me time to stew.  so the damage is controlled and i’m starting all over again in a couple of weeks.  as a something.

washer’s still working as far as i know.  i canceled sears over the phone.  then i also canceled as much of the clothes as i could as i just found out my job has been eliminated.  there was a meeting on friday at my hiring school, but i teach elsewhere on friday and nobody in charge bothered to let me know that my job was eliminated, they just told everybody else.  my coworker emailed me this evening, which was nice of her but i wish it had been earlier before i bought work clothes, etc.

as always, it is unclear what will happen next.  i still have a cold.

first of all, i’m sick.  it’s just a cold but it’s just not fair.  not the way i was planning to spend labor day weekend, but then again i wasn’t really planning anything except some arting, so that’s been changed to knitting and resting, and not visiting my 101-year-old aunt, who had a mastectomy on thursday and was home safe and sound by last night. wouldn’t want to give it to her, after all.  and buying clothing for the first time in months, online as always, and then the washing machine broke.

it had been clicking and, by the time i decided to put down the knitting and go see, it had stopped and there was a burny smell and it wouldn’t go.  luckily, it had stopped on a draining cycle and was pretty much out, but didn’t spin and i just said o hell and got in the car and went to sears and bought another one.  to be delivered next weekend.  homeowners’ account, no interest for a year, labor day sales, yada yada.  took an hour.  i figured oh hell, it’s 10 years old.  the one i replaced with it was twice that and still working but oh hell.  then i picked up my computer repair from last weekend and tottered around walgreens and such and limped back home and wheezed a lot.

this evening before coming to bed i tried the machine again.  and lo!  it must have had some failsafe device for overheating or something, because it goes now.  i will have to go back tomorrow and cancel sears.  saves me $500, if this resurrection holds, which is good as i just spent a couple hundred on clothes, as i said, fort the first time in many months, if not years (first paycheck of the year was on friday.)

i’ve an ear out for clicking….