Chicken with its Head Chopped off

Pick greens, make lei, sew costumes, check bondo box, memorize chants (make them pa'a inside the brain!) make sure everything is ready! Where's that potluck going to be? What should I make or buy? Will it need refrigeration or heating up? Plus I have home stuffs to do. Like, can you believe the license plate fell off the front of the Beetle? It cost $31 and some change to get replacement plates. Add to that I had to change my bankcard too. I just wanna stay home so nothing really drastic happens! Kumu says, "Don't worry, have fun with it!" I just DO worry--that my voice isn't the one and only one going in the wrong direction!

And then there was this kid at work.....

I'm supposed to be leaving the workplace at 12:30 and a teacher drops a kid off at my class at 12:25 so he (the teacher) can go to lunch. My room teacher is also out to lunch (in more ways than one). Mr. C tells me that this 4th grader has forgotten his math book (he's been "forgetting" all year long and they should have found a solution by this time!). I ask the kid what time his lunch is and he gives me this smart aleck attitude:

"Well, let's see (he says sarcastically), I'm in the fourth grade, you have fourth grade students and I go to lunch the same time as they do." I could have rung his neck right then and there. So I tell him, "Well, since I don't have fourth grade students, and I don't know what time their lunch is, I guess you have to stay in here till I decide it's time for your lunch and maybe I won't even remember until after recess." I really wanted to say, "Well, you know, some people have been in fourth grade for this whole year and still haven't learned how to remember to bring their math book to school."

I tell myself not to take this stuff personally, I guess that's why I still have my job. I stayed till 1--there's no overtime.....and this is another reason why I only work a 3 hour day (going in early and staying late makes it more like 4 hours a day). At report card time I bring work home and it takes another 2 or 3 days of doing grades and documenting stuff for reports. In the fall they will pay 4 different people at different hours, to do the job that my girlfriend and I did last year and she was working 3 hour days too!

I have seniority and will probably interview the prospective job seekers. The last time I interviewed 5 people and it took 2 afternoons after school. When they are hired, I will train them (at no extra cost to the school district or the taxpayers). Right at that point in time is the California E Hula Mau trip. I know the staff is wondering why I don't help more with different activities, call me crazy, I'd rather drive in traffic and be at the halau. I'd better check on my retirement! Welcome to my life, it is quite wonderful, REALLY, that I'm able to do it all with little regard to stress or strain, and with strong support from the man I love to complain about! He's awsome too!--