November is my new favorite month.

November is the best month because I get about a million days off, comparatively speaking. First, on Halloween, which was indeed technically in October, we had movie day after lunch. For some wonderful reason there was no movie being held in my room and so I got to sit in another teacher's room with her and monitor the kids. Since the other teacher is a much more experienced authoritative teacher and because the kids were actually being totally awesome and simply watching the movie, I got to do a bunch of grading and basically had an almost two hour long prep. Hurrah.

Then, next Tuesday is election day and there are no students. There is going to be professional development but there might not be anything for me to do since I am a Spanish teacher and no one actually cares about Spanish. Half hurrah, but still hurrah for not having to teach and probably getting time to grade and whatnot. Especially since grades are due on Thursday morning.

Then! Monday after that, veteran's day. No school for anybody, three day long weekend filled with sleep and cookies.

Then comes half day for parent teacher conferences. I doubt anyone really wants to talk to me because as mentioned earlier, no one cares about Spanish. I am sure some people will want to talk to me and probably a lot more people will want to talk to me than teachers in core subjects get at other schools with different population demographics, however, a half day is a half day and I will take what I can get.

Then Thanksgiving and being that I eat little to no Thanksgiving food(vegan) I am just going to stay at my apartment and babysit the growing collection of cats we have(up to three now) and plan and sleep and watch t.v. on the new cable we got installed today.

Right now I'm waiting for the signal to go out from the math teacher who always goes out really late in the evening. It's already 9:45 and I am starting to feel droopy, but I owe her a drink and I had a little ex-boyfriend sadness relapse spurred by his randomly instant messaging me just to chat after not having spoken to me for five months. It's like some bell went off in his apartment that I was starting to get over him so he had to talk to me for no reason at all just to screw with my head and now I'm thinking about him again. And he's just no good. Long and complicated past that I wish would just go away.

Also, it is freezing in my apartment and the heating is "broken" or so we've been told. It needs to be fixed right away, I can't take how cold it is in here. I am starting to regret the giant windows in every room. Brrr.

I have had no energy for posting. I gave a test, which didn't go over well, and I spent one hundred hours grading it. I had no idea grading took so long. I will never, ever give a test to all 236 students again. What a horrible ordeal. I am loving school though and my students. The other day one of the kids said something that just cracked me up and I realized I love my students. I am kind of bummed on the weekends because I miss them all(most) so much. I am wondering if this is my honeymoon period? Hopefully not.