Rough Week

Let's start with the positive for once:

• Student-teacher is great to work with and we seem to have a lot in common.
• My room is next to my bestie's.  (This is good, except when we both need to do work.)
• I was actually on time everyday.  That's a first.
• We have a 4-day weekend (with Friday and Monday off).
• No real lesson planning necessary, as we were instructed not to do "real work" on the first day, just icebreakers.  (Actually, I found this a lot harder to do than doing "real work"!)

The downside:

• I pulled my groin.  Again.  Thanks to all of the crap I had to move around in my unprepared classroom.  Ouch!
• My computer at school is not connected, and my computer at home is on the fritz.  Thank goodness for hubby's computer.
• I have no syllabus ready, thanks to a wasted week of meetings and computer issues.
• I have a class with 32 students, another with 31, two with 30, one with 17, and one with 9.  I only have 30 desks.  This should be fun.
• My study hall students (one of the groups of 30) are already attitudinal.  Nothing like having to be a disciplinarian in a study hall!
• Although my AP class only has 9 students, I don't have enough grammar books for them because the wrong books were ordered. 
• Did I mention the excruciating groin pain?

That's all I have for this week.  I hope next week is better, seeing as it's another 3-day week.  (We get Thursday off as well for Rosh Hashanah.)  

I hope your week was better than mine!