PITA

not the bread, but Pain In The Ass. Somehow Google forgot my username or password, and I had to go through the process of resetting it.

Surgery is over, and the doctor says it went better than he expected. Took about 9 hours. Spent 2 hours at the hospital waiting for the finish and for her to be moved to a room. Mother in Law is still pretty much out of it, and we have tag-team 24/7 coverage in the hospital room. I won't be pulling an overnight, but my wife will.

Even without all that, busy busy week. School schedule is all shot to hell due to a few different things. Tomorrow we have an assembly for the author of The Freedom Writers - some of our teachers adapted portions for a city-wide newspaper based program, so she is coming to our school. Last year we had Sonia Weitz, who wrote a holocaust autobiography titled I Promised I Would Tell. I know this will be a knockout for the kids, but it eats up one entire day of teaching for my homeroom.

In the educationally frustrated vein, I also have to plan Monday for tomorrow, since I will be out all day at a professional development session that is of questionable use to me. Since I am professional, I will leave lesson plans for all three of my classes that are idiot-proof so the sub can monitor kids in self-teaching mode (as if). But I can't do it before tomorrow, since I don't know how much my first class will get through due to my aforementioned assembly.

Tuesday we have to be at school 5-7pm for an open house...learned about that yesterday. On the good flipside, we get that 2 hours turned back to us on Friday when the kids leave after half a day. Thursday I have another professional development from 330-530. And the following Monday another one, same hours.

To add more fun to the fire, Father/Daughter dance on Saturday 2-4pm. Black Tie optional. Meanwhile, the wife is working long hours tomorrow, teaching a class on Saturday, hospital coverage Saturday night...I am going to need that spring break when it comes.