Almost TGIF

Well, my week has been improving. By the end of yesterday, I had air-conditioning and access to a PC. I am finally getting my classes settled and guidance has stopped putting a bunch of new people in my classes.
One of my favorite students had to drop my advanced drama class. She has physical therapy for her ankle over the next three months and my class is the best one for her to drop (seems to be a problem with her dropping AP English or Calculus) so she can go to her sessions. I am sad. She is a great actress and an incredibly sweet young lady.
In her place, guidance has given me a student who has not had Drama II. He had Drama I his freshman year and now as a senior, he convinced his counselor to place him in my advanced class. I am not going to pitch a fit because I would rather wait and see if there is someone worse in one of my spring classes that I would rather ask to be pulled out of my class. Besides, his ego needs to be readjusted and the wonderful actors in this class will hopefully cut his cocky attitude a bit.
My Drama I classes are a unique mix of ghetto, country, and prep. This is a norm at my school and those with a bit of an open mind will enjoy working with someone with completely different thoughts than them. By the time they are in Drama III, they are great friends no matter their social groups. That is one of the things I appreciate most about my classes.
Now, for some sleep.. I am exhausted. First week of school kicks my tail every time!!

Day 3.. now I do not exist

Day 3 and I seem to be moving backwards with computer issues instead of forward...
Last night, I went to check school email here at home to see if I missed any news after leaving school and I could not log in. Apparently, the email password I have had for the last several years in no longer correct. What???
So when I got to school this morning, I tried to log on to email on my "sort of works pc" at school and my email password there is also invalid. I also cannot log onto anyone else's pc to find out class rosters or email or use my files from the server... so basically I do not exist on the computer anymore.
When I explained my problem to my principal he said (with a completely serious face) " Just email our computer tech about it." I just stood there staring.... then he started laughing at what he had said. This poor man has way too many issues this week.. or I completely missed his sense of humor on this one. Usually I am making the "smartie pants" comments at school.
This afternoon I spent in district level fine arts meetings. I was asked about being the lead teacher for drama. I am not sure if that is a cool statement about my teaching and coordination skills or some kind of punishment...
By the way... My school has the teachers march in at graduation each year. We are in full academic regalia and it looks pretty cool. My mom is thrilled that I actually use what she refers to as my "40,000.00 robe" on a regular basis. But the problem is, that for some reason, I have about 50 teacher graduation robes sitting all over the tables in my classroom right now. so if anyone needs a black academic robe???

Returning to the blogging world

I used to keep a blog but life got too busy and I stopped. I didn't actually want to go back to the same blog, so I started a completely new place...a clean sheet.. a new day.. etc. Today is the last day before school starts back. I want to use this blog to chart my work for school and other personal notes. I want to keep this as something personal, but having others reply is fun too...