Queen of Rambles

I finally found my camera cord so I uploaded a bunch of pictures to the computer and started to crop them and all that good stuff. I keep thinking I’m losing weight and “not that bad” but the pictures just really sent a shock of revulsion through my stomach. I’m a huge fat cow and I want to go eat a bunch of brownies! Brownies would solve all my problems. I could just blubber out and stop taking care of myself and never look in the mirror. Brownies would taste good. Someone get me some brownies now!

I really must have a breast reduction sometime in the very near future. I’m not even 30 years old and my gee-gees are already hanging to my knees. Why can’t I just go in and get a gastric bypass? Other than the fact that I’m terrified of such a thing?

Bah!

I hate it when this depression settles over me. I’ll start exercising again tomorrow and that should help. I’ve missed my endorphins this week.

Of course, I don’t know when I’m going to find time to exercise and do the other stuff I need to do. I just made a list of everything I need to do this week and it’s overwhelming. I wish I had computer access during my breaks at school, but that doesn’t seem to be possible. Even if it was, it wouldn’t do me much good since our new computer doesn’t have a floppy drive. It has two CD drives instead. Ah well. I think I just better stay far, far away from computers at work. I learned the hard way that you shouldn’t leave trails to your online projects from work computers. I suppose I can take in the papers I need to read through and edit those during my break. I do have Friday off, so that will be something of a life saver.

Of course, instead of doing the stuff I need to be doing right now, I’ve spent the last three hours goofing off online. I don’t even know what I’ve done. I have a great capacity for procrastination.

Now, let me ask you a work advice question. Yesterday I went out and bought a ton of candy and stickers at the dollar store so I can bribe the lovely children into doing their math. Should I just let them have a piece of candy or a sticker when they finish their assignment or should I make it more complicated? I’m thinking about printing up “points” and giving them a point for being good and completing work. Then I’d “sell” them a sticker for two points, a piece of candy for five points and a pencil for ten points. It would be a lot cheaper in the long run, but would it be too complicated? I think I would just take stickers down to the first graders and not have them collect points at all. The second graders all have folders in my room so they could keep their points there. The third graders would have to keep track of their points themselves. I’d have to initial all the points and write their names on the back in ink so they didn’t steal them but I think it could work. Am I making my life too complicated? I used to do this same thing when I was subbing in the little grades and it worked really well. It was a little different since I charged them for doing things that annoyed me (going to the bathroom, sharpening their pencils, etc) but they only had to keep track of their points until the end of the day. I guess I’ll just do it and then if it gets too complicated I’ll discontinue it. Working with kids sure is expensive.

Oh, get this.

Friday one of the aids was bitching, saying she thought we should get paid just as much as teachers. Now, it is no secret that the aids are underpaid, but so are the teachers. I would be all for a raise, but only if the teachers also got a raise. They should be making a heck of a lot more than the aids. This woman doesn’t seem to understand that we have an almost entirely stress free job. Sure, it’s annoying when you have a kid who won’t work, but we only deal with each kid for about a half hour maximum, not all day. We don’t plan lessons or grade papers (unless it’s during the hours we are paid for). We don’t come in for parent-teacher evenings. We don’t call parents. We don’t have any responsibility for kids passing assessment tests. We don’t have to do any extra-curricular work. We don’t have to go to classes in the summer. We don’t have to do much, really. Honestly, I could easily see myself making a “career” of this aid thing if it did pay better. It’s even easier than subbing was. Of course, it has its down sides (lunch duty and mud puddle patrol) but overall it’s cake. Pure cake with huge gobs of white, fluffy frosting on top.

Of course, I’ve only been doing it for five days. Maybe by June I’ll be calling it moldy fruit cake.

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