The day actually started well before dawn. Blinding headache kept me awake for quite a while, wondering if I could get back to sleep. Terribly uncomfortable, and at that hour of the night/morning I am always emotionally vulnerable, so all sorts of dark thoughts and doubts creep in.
School was school. We keep getting new students from all sorts of places, and not losing an equivalent number, especially those we would like to see disappear. But, despite my tiredness and nausea I put on a pretty cheerful face and performed a good show on angles. Until just before lunch, when the Asst. Principal stopped by to inform us of the death of our youngest, newest teacher.
Sudden, unexpected. No word on what happened. Some of the kids are pretty torn up, not because they liked her, but because they gave her a hard time. I became a new teacher as an adult, after taking a lot of crap from a lot of people, and still during that whole time I wondered why or if I could keep doing it. Word is that she had a bit of a dependency on painkillers following a car accident. She was out during the last couple of months, "in the hospital." I really don't want to speculate.
Back to my headache, I think maybe it was due to diet Coke. I am trying to cut back, maybe completely. Some of my pains might be related to the chemicals in the artificial sweeteners (hello, conspiracy theory on line 2), and water is better anyhow.
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I stopped drinking diet coke 3 years ago. Don't miss it all. Only time I ever have it is if I'm out and about at lunch and then I find it tastes really, really bad and I wonder why I ever drank the stuff.
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