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Date: 11 May 2007 19:37:30
I've had a fucking shite day.
I left for work this morning slightly earlier than usual for my end of week school.
I tried to turn right out of my lane but there was a huge frigging digger thing parked on the corner so I couldn't see properly. I pulled out anyway, hoping it was okay (which it luckily was).
I almost immediately hit a queue of traffic. It took me 45 minutes to do 5 miles which usually takes me like 2 minutes. There'd been an accident (minor) 5 miles up the road. Consequently I was very late for school.
When I eventually arrived I was told that I had to take the class I was teaching to the hall for 9.45 for a 'stranger danger' talk, thereby shortening my already shorter lesson. I taught as much as I could in the time left and took the children to the hall for 9.45 to be told that I was too fucking early and they weren't ready for us.
So we went outside and did trust games (which kinda fitted in with my RE lesson that had been cut short) until someone came out to ask us why we weren't in the frigging hall because they were waiting for us to be able to start.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
The day continued.
This afternoon I started my class music teaching which I'm doing just for this term to fill in until they find another teacher (the other one left only giving two weeks notice). Having got things ready in a classroom where I thought I'd be teaching, I checked with the teacher that it was the right room and was told that I'd be in the hall.
I lugged everything across to the hall to find that it still hadn't been cleaned from lunch. I was assured that someone would do it soon. Oh except that they couldn't find the broom anywhere. So I went back to get the class in the hope it'd been clean by the time I got back.
We got to the hall at the same time as the bloody piano teacher who was teaching in the hall as that's where the piano is (they were by now cleaning the hall with a dustpan and brush because they couldn't find the broom). So we went back to the original classroom to have the lesson in there.
I went to the second class of the afternoon, and took them to the hall as I'd been told the piano teacher would've gone. He hadn't. We went to the only availible room - the ICT suite.
I managed half the lesson until it got the the bit where I needed a CD player. No probs, there was one in the classroom next door. Except that it didn't work. I wrestled with the socket that was stupidly behind a bookcase which was too heavy to move. But it didn't work. I plugged it in another socket on the other side of the room. But it didn't work. Ok, computers, they have CD drives. Having asked a member of staff if they had speakers and being assured they did, I turned the computer on and waited for it to load. I got the CD playing. No fucking speakers.
I sent a child to another class to ask for another CD player. Oh, guess what, that didn't fucking work either. The message came back with it that it was temperamental and you needed to hold the CD drawer closed cos it didn't stay shut on its' own. But no, even holding it shut, it still didn't fucking work. Not in either sockets. No, and the other member of staff couldn't get it to work either. Fucking waste of fucking time.
By this point the Year 5 boys thought I was a total pushover and were pissing about lots.
We headed back to the hall and listened to the CD in there, while a cake sale was being set up on the other side.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I spent the entire journey home from school ringing Socks but either getting an engaged tone or no reply from the 3 numbers I had (one of which was the main help desk).
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Tonight I've tried to set up the new church laptop only to find that the person who bought that laptop didn't buy any software with it. What's the fucking point of a laptop with no software? One of it's main purposes is for 'the youth' to watch DVDs on it. Oh, except that it's a titchy screen with shite resolution. What's the fucking point!??!?!
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg. What a fucking annoying fucking stupid fucking day.
Shit that's a long entry. I don't think I've ever done one that long before!! Did you all stop reading before the end? I would've done.
(I promise the next entry will be a nice one!)