this is me, silently offering up a primal scream to the gods of education.

so here's the deal. you know how i got called insubordinate by my principal last week? well, at the time, i thought the whole situation was blown entirely out of proportion. i was wrong. now i have a letter of reproach in my file at school, which goes above and beyond the whole "blown out of proportion" concept. i love the irony of being judged based upon not how i teach (which, by the way, is my JOB), but how i do all of the other crap that comes with working here. i was bitching to some TFA girls down the street twenty minutes ago, and one of them told me that a letter in the file basically came with being on staff in this district. so, because i enjoy the irony and because i'm pissed as all hell that i now have a strike against me in the one profession that i truly adore, the one job that i've had that feels like more of a calling than a job, here's the letter...

"I appreciate you discussing with me the fact that you wrote inappropriate passes for students who were not leaving your classroom. You knew before you wrote the passes that you should not have written them. You are out of order when you perform such actions. In order to be effective, you must follow policy and guidelines at all times. Yours for a better high school..." ridiculous!

here's the good news...

this weekend, carol hickey, elizabeth harper, and faith judy will be making a pilgrimage to memphis with the rest of the MTC crew to celebrate carol's birthday and to kick back and forget about all of the crap that we're going through down here. i can't freakin wait. seriously, just to be near civilization, to be around the friends that i love will be the highlight of my week (followed shortly thereafter by the dismissal of the $1.83 fee that ole miss waived today so that i could finally register for classes - YAY!).

okay, i have to get going. last night, our bathroom basically exploded, and i have to go wash the towels. poor maggie's in jackson today at the new doctor's office. specialist. yikes.