ah, yes.

Thus far I have finished two weeks of school, and am almost halfway through the third (not that I’m counting).  My famous – or infamous – coworker has managed not to act too crazy, except for the day where she went off on me because her furniture doesn’t match.  I smiled and apologized, while deep inside I was thinking, “Hey!  Our room doesn’t have a door, or a fire exit, or a ceiling at the normal height, or a phone… But boy will that matching furniture really help things out.”  We did finally get a door yesterday, and a smoke detector today, so this week has been like Christmas.

Other fun notes:

• My coworker pronouncing “The Scarlet Ibis” as “The Scarlet IH-bis” over and over
• My coworker spelling the word reading as “reeding” on a worksheet to give to the kids (I do work in the literacy department.)
• The construction contractors complaining that they are going to have to repaint the door frames.  What genius decided it was a good idea to paint all of the door frames in the building before school so that the paint is wet and tempting all day?  Someone needs to pay me $20/hr. to make those kinds of decisions, and the door frames will only need to be painted once.  After the instructional day.
• Some students asking the principal if there could be a school-sponsored bonfire after the homecoming game.  Shockingly, he said no.
• My coworker’s inadvertent foray into writing grammar lessons.  She put up a series of posters that comprises a sentence, in which each word is a different part of speech; the labels got mixed up and she couldn’t figure out which one went where.  So she made the kids tell her what they were.  Creative teaching method; not-so-intelligent teacher.

More fun to come, I’m sure!