It was a funky, mystery virus. The bloodwork didn't pick up anything except that I have evidently had parvo in the past---wouldn't you know it? I have had the dog disease. How typical. My blood sugar was really low--64 at around 4 in the afternoon after a full day of eating. I have to keep an eye on that and watch my carbs and such because when I eat them it causes my blood sugar to spike and then drop way too low.
Enough of the boring health shit. Who am I going to kill? Well, there's a fairly long list comprised almost exclusively of senior boys. I cannot wait for this year to be over. I've done it to myself--I've let them play around and we joke and really have a very good relationship as far as teacher-senior goes. But because they are 17/18 and male, they can't self-monitor, so I give a foot or two and they take a frigging mile and a half. I totally lost it today and told them exactly what I thought. I yelled, which I rarely do, and I told them I was tired of them acting like jerks and being rude and most of all talking while I was trying to explain something. It was the quietest the room had been all semester. Of course that made them a bit subdued (to say the least), so I had to really work the room in order to get them back on track. On the plus side, two of them apologized for their mouthiness and we did laugh a lot while they were doing their improv scenes. It's just time for them to graduate. As one of the guys said, I've had them in class for at least an hour and a half a day all school year and 11 of them I've had for three hours a day since January. That is enough to make anyone crazy.
I love my job, but I could never do it if there wasn't a generous summer break.
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