thehallway

OK. So this week I have gotten up and put my pants on backwards. I've put my shoes on before my pants and had to redo that whole thing. I have been discombobulated in the extreme and banged elbow and shins and pretty much hobbled around like a lost soul. This morning I couldn't get up and going, so instead of being in my classroom just after six, I didn't get there until almost seven. I have no idea why I am such a hot mess, but the weather might be part of it. The fact we had an entire week of February off due to extreme cold and that there hasn't been a normal week in terms of classes or schedules during the entire month. The bedbug thing might be part of it as well. I chose to teach high school knowing the respect issue might be problematic, but the trade off for me was that high school teachers don't deal with huggy snot-nosed kids who also have pink eye, head lice, and/or bedbugs. Well apparently the latter are moving on up to high school. We've had confirmed instances that were dealt with recently and in the two years previous, but now we have the whole social media thing where kids who aren't even students are posting 'sightings' of bedbugs on walls and in common areas. One of them posted a bug on a wall that was part of a youtube video and it made our kids and parents light up. So today we had to leave right after school so that a company could come in to preventatively treat (we were given the all clear after the last incident) the entire building. And we were told the company was bringing in bedbug sniffing canines. I didn't even know that was a thing, but apparently these dogs can find even one living bedbug if it's there. February has been exhausting. Thank god March arrives on Friday and maybe I can at least start feeling better about things.