busy week already

Monday was gym class all day. Subbing for Elem. PE was fun. I spent my K-4 PE experience pretending I was a pony and 5-12 incapacitated by my mortifyingly large chest. I wore both an underwire and a regular workout type bra together. We stayed inside because I think the high was 50 degrees, the morning was more like 20-something, plus the basketballs would fly everywhere. I have a louder voice than I thought I did. I can still talk but I could tell I was getting hoarse. I did jumping jacks but I didn't really run, but I am a good dribbler, and I don't just mean dribbling coffee on my shirt every morning. I needed a whistle. Tuesday I had a couple of appointments and errands and did not work. I had a vascular screening. They took my legs blood pressure, both arms, they sonogrammed my neck and abdomen. And I was rather creeped out. Something tells me I'm going to hear bad news and frankly I was enjoying my Pollyanna attitude. If I am malfunctioning, what then? Not sure. Today I subbed a job I got on Sunday night. It looked innocent. Half a day of 2nd graders. I taught reading and math. We learned about addends. For example 2+___=5 and they had to figure out the answer was 3. Not all of them got it. I tried to help the ones that needed help but seriously, that class was everywhere at once. I had a really hard time getting a lot of the little girls to sit down, to not mess with eachother, and for the entire 4 hours I heard a lot about people calling each other names. For example, one girl said, "Teacher, Kenny called me a man." Also little people who forget their glasses and really have no way of getting them since their entire family either sleeps all day or works all day, will continue to whine and cry for their glasses. One lost her quarters. Really, I said, you should not leave them on your desk, they should be in your pocket. Oh let me check. Nope not in her pocket she said. This other girl said she saw yet another girl playing with and/or taking the quarters. I was glad when the teacher came back after lunch! Names have been changed or omitted to protect the guilty.