Birthday

I'm starving, but it's some sort of Jewish holiday which requires the Orthodox Jews to close their grocery store where the most excellent bagels are sold for 35 cents. It's also my birthday, which is exciting. I tried to stay out last night until midnight, but I couldn't even stay awake that long. I left the bar around 9:30 and came home and watched the season premier of the Office, which was so-so, and then went to bed by 11:30.

So now it's my birthday, which is exciting. I am going to do my laundry today finally, and once that's clean I'll be very happy. Then I don't know what I'll do. My teaching fellow friend V. is going to come out with me tonight and we're going to go somewhere and do something. I don't really care too much. I wouldn't mind using my i.d., but I hardly get carded anyway. I feel like I'd go out and try to get carded but wouldn't, and would then be annoyed at spending money that I don't have. Speaking of which, I thought I would be getting paid on Friday because I got paid two Fridays ago and that's how it usually works. Oh no. We get paid on the 1st and the 15th, even if those days fall on a Monday or a Wednesday. I thought that was annoying because I don't want to be depositing checks on a Monday, but I guess I'm technically supposed to have enrolled in direct deposit by now. Because I have TONS of free time before 4:30 to hang out at the DOE office in Brooklyn. Stupid jerks. I guess I could mail it, but I don't have any stamps.

I have lots to plan for this week, but I really don't want to do that on my birthday. Tomorrow I'm going to plan this week out and then next week, three day weekend!, I'll try to do some real planning for like a whole month or something. I also need to start typing up my lesson plans so that next year I could actually reuse them. I type some up now, but I also just sort of write the activities down on random pieces of paper which I promptly lose. So that's got to stop. I also have some projects to grade, but a lot of them were too big for my canvas bag, so I have to grade them at school, as if I ever have free time when I'm at school. Next week hopefully. Oh and I'm doing progress reports this week because At-risk letters, if you want to fail a kid their parents have to be notified in advance, go out on the 12th of October. Which I think is stupid since kids aren't allowed to turn in late homework in my class, so I don't know how much it will help. If kids have bad attitudes and don't do any work in my class, they know they're failing because I already told them. Will telling their parents change their attitude in class? I highly doubt it.

For now I'm going to relax and catch up on T.V. that I did not watch this week because I don't have television. Hooray birthdays.