Short Week Blindside

Four day weeks are nice. Less so if they are also Spirit Week. But since tomorrow is "Homecoming" things should become less crazy.

Yeah, right. The guidance counselor for our 7th grade is, to put it mildly, senile. She is less than organized, doesn't understand the teacher's responsibilities or our deadlines. Case in point, she asked for a list of award recipients due today, but didn't ask for it until Thursday. The day after report cards came out. And many teachers didn't make copies of their report cards before they issued them (not me, I won't get fooled again). So they have no record of what grades, attendance and conduct their homeroom students had. But it gets better. The awards ceremony is tomorrow. She handed me the memo this afternoon at the end of the day. I am presenting awards for our team. But I don't have a list of the recipients, because the aforementioned lack of preparation. Plus, the lack of notice to us means I didn't put the ceremony in our team newsletter, which went out with report cards.

Oh, and did I mention tomorrow, as part of Spirit Week, it is Teacher Tacky Day. Something I usually get into, but I will be damned if I will present academic awards dressed crazily.

Wife flies out for New York on Thursday night. A girls get together for a long weekend or something. Beats me.