99 Luftballons

...which is vastly superior to the English dreck version of the song. I don't speak a word of German--not on purpose, anyway--but that entire album? Is great.

And the only reason I'm bringing it up is because this is my 99th post. A good average, not a great average. I should have crossed 100 a long time ago. But at least I'm more or less in the habit, which for me is the key.

Work stuff: Self-monitoring, which I've discussed before. Call it whatever you like but it usually adds up to "witch hunt." And I had to deal with it at both of my schools on consecutive days, right after Spring Break. That, all by itself, is enough to throw your head into tailspin. On top of that, they have me doing another training session at the end of the month. But it's not a training session where they give you the materials and the presentation notes and stuff. No, they're giving us the materials and Go Forth and Make Your Own Presentation Notes, Kid. So I've got that to deal with. Plus we have to deal with panicky parents who just figured out that their kid is going to flunk and maybe he needs special education so that he won't have to repeat. And when the parents refer their kids to me, I have no choice: I have to get the Child Study Team together at least the one time. PLUS we have to do yet another round of the self-monitoring in both schools, and get it done before June 1. (One of them was supposed to be off the hook this quarter.) I'm not sure what the hurry is, but okay. We're hammered with meetings to be scheduled but I'd love to clear an entire day and decicate it to your telling me how much my work sucks. That's the stuff, you bet. PLUS (why, yes, there is more, thanks for asking) we've been having server troubles at one school so we're way behind on the meeting data entry. PLUS we have another audit called Live Count, which has to be done in the after-school hours, and done by next Friday.

Yeah, good times.

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"shabbos goy" monkey [twice! a few minutes apart--BD came up #2 in a Yahoo search]
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