All of the good things about UCLA

Here is a list of ALL of the good things about UCLA:
1. There is a stretch of Sunset that you have to drive on to get there from here with no stop lights and curves that are big enough you don't really have to slow down. It may be my favorite part to drive in all of LA.

I've failed at writing this...

Here's a list of reasons I've failed lately:
1. I got the layoff notice.
2. Simon came to visit.
3. I've been sick the last few days
4. When my friends post, I forget that I haven't.
5. Some days, when you finish at school, you just need to relax. There was a big fiasco surrounding a conference we were supposed to go to this weekend and then it was off and then on and back and forth SO because I'm still under the weather, and I already have sub plans AND a sub, I'm taking a day off that will hopefully get me back mentally.

List of options for next year

There is a possibility that things will pretty much stay the same next year at school but there is an equally strong possibility that things will be VERY different. Here is a list of those options:
1. We'll start with the worst one: I get laid off. That would stink.
2. I continue teaching 3 of the 5 10th grade classes and 2 drama classes with the added 7th period Academic Decathlon.
3. I take the 3 11th grade classes that aren't AP and keep my two drama classes and the 7th period Academic Decathlon.
4. I teach 4 11th grade classes including the AP Language class and knock down to one drama class (and the 7th period you know)
5. I teach three 12th grade classes including the AP Literature class and keep two drama classes. (and 7th...)
6. Option four but I teach a newspaper class instead of a drama class
7. Option number 3 but one drama and one newspaper.
8. Option number 2 but one drama and one newspaper.
Who knows?

So I'm not in the best of moods

No idea why since I had an entertaining weekend. Doesn't change the fact that today I came to school angry. Here is a list of things I find myself wanting to tell people:
1. I can't take care of your classroom and my own.
2. I can't prepare your lessons and my own.
3. I can't spend the next two weeks preparing the tenth grade students for a high school exit exam.
4. I can't make the review slideshow you gave me to present in homeroom interesting.
5. I can't understand why the conversation you are having with your high school girlfriend is more important than you being in class.
6. I can't get behind your decision to paint graffiti for the rest of your life rather than at least graduate high school.
7. I can't help that you signed up for drama class, have been in it all year and now you decide that you don't want to participate.
8. I can't help you if you don't listen or ask questions.
9. I can't believe that you know everything when I don't even know everything.
10. I can't let you out of English class so you can take care of something for science, math, music, history, art etc. especially when I know you aren't going to make up the time missed in my class.
11. I can't let you work on other work for another class when I have assigned to you a task.
12. I can't give you an A just because you show up for class.
13. I can't let you keep Maus much as I'd like to- it's a $14 book making it the most expensive one in the bookroom.
14. I can't deal with your complete and utter apathy towards acts of genocide.
15. I can't understand why you're wasting my time by wanting to fail.
16. I can't improve this school's tests scores in the next month.

ok... maybe now it's out of my system. Let's hope so, or the ican't list may turn into things I have told my coworkers and students.