I had another long week of work topped off by a day with no students today. You'd think that'd be awesome, a teacher with no students, but no, it sucks.

We started today off with a bullshit meeting where nothing got accomplished (nothing ever gets accomplished in these meetings). People asked me after the meeting, "Why were you so quiet during the meeting?" Well, I was quiet during the meeting because we were talking about bullshit stuff and I figured if everyone did what I was doing the meeting would be over. But no. You had to fucking go back and forth about total bullshit and in the end, what got accomplished? Jack shit. Okay, so I didn't actually say *all* of that to my co-worker, but you get the jist...

Next we go to another meeting, with our entire staff. It's one of those "touchy-feely" type meetings where you do some sort of "team building" thing that's supposed to bring you closer together. Fuck that, I already know who I like and who I don't like, don't make me walk around the room and join another group and sing kumbayaa with everyone (okay, there was no singing, but you get the point). Anyway, we did some personality test and come to find out 85% of the people I *truly* like at my work is in the same boat with me personality-wise. GO FIGURE.

Next we do a stupid meeting with our Social Studies staff and we're talking about tests we're going to be doing in 2012, but they keep messing up the dates and stuff, and people are REALLY concerned about the dates like they need five years of advanced fucking notice on when our kids will be taking the test. Fuck that. Tell me the year of the test, I'll teach to the test (which is bullshit but that's how it goes), etc....but don't spend thirty minutes trying to figure out when a test is *possibly* going to take place five years from now.

School day ends, my wife cooks some badass burritos, then I drive an hour to our football game so I can film for the team. We beat ass, I drive home, make a few STIFF drinks and now I'm IMing with Gabe and he tells me to post in this thread and I go on a huge rant about stuff.


/end rant