It’s kind of been a lame day.

It started out pretty good. I took Colin to work (we’ve been carpooling- my transmission died at the end of last week), got to school, started making some cute webicons. I made 125 icons at work today in total. I was enjoying myself. The kids were well behaved. Then, about 11:00 things got chaotic.

The printer in the gold pod messed up. I had to look at it, dismantle it, and get myself all covered in the toner that was leaking everywhere. It’s almost like it’s getting too hot because there were big lumps of sticky melted toner all over everything and it gets on the pages when printing. Well, I couldn’t fix the problem. I then proceeded to have cramps. So then I had to worry about setting up the 4th grade computers (all 18 of them) to print to the library instead of the gold pod. Portfolio season you know. I got back to my room just in time for the kindergarteners to arrive. One of them asked me if my fish was dead. (I took Techie back to school on Monday). I said, “No! She’s just resting. She loves hanging out at the bottom.” It’s true- Techie loves to hang out down there a lot. Well, the kids went to their seats, and I got to looking, and sure enough…. Techie was dead. I don’t know what happened, but I think she must have been sick.

So next I start worrying about how I’m going to handle that. I decided that after the two kindergarten classes leave, I’ll scoop Techie out of the tank before the second graders come in. The second graders didn’t know Techie was back, so I wouldn’t have to answer any questions. Well, the last kindergarten class I had- the teacher was late picking up her kids. I didn’t think I’d have time to take care of getting Techie out of her tank. The teacher finally showed up, but by this time there were 5 4th graders in the lab typing portfolio pieces. I waited until they weren’t looking, and then I scooped Techie out of her tank and into a container with my bare hands. I had to. I had no net in the lab! How disturbing! I sat the tank on the floor behind my desk, and luckily the second graders didn’t ask where it was.

Of course I am going to have to tell the kids Techie died, but I didn’t want to deal with that today.

Meanwhile, right now there is a storm raging outside. Well, sort of. It’s thundering and raining. We have a tornado watch until midnight. It was like 70 degrees today! It’s insane! I guess there were some tornadoes around Hopkins County (where I live). Some people in a trailer died. Bad stuff. I hope it calms down and the weather radio doesn’t go off all night. I also hope my day at work is better tomorrow.

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