In every sense of the word, today was the cliche Monday! The Monday of all Mondays!

And although I'm looking forward to tonight when my love gets home, I'd prefer to pretend that my whole work day never even happened!

Didn't want to get up this morning...

Went outside after "starting" my car with the remote starter only to realize it had never started!

Running late, heat on high, scraping the thick frost with a CD case (now why would I have a scraper living in upstate NY right?ll)

Then I remember I'd left my car on E so I had to make a trip to the gas station. It was a good thing actually because it gave my car a chance to unthaw the rest of the way.

After dropping Kev to his Dad's, I was finally on my way to school. It was a hectic, heavy traffic day and there must have been an accident because I could hear sirens.

Probably the most pertinent to the story is this...I didn't have time to stop for coffee!!


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My prep periods were fine because I didn't have to talk but when it came time to teach (if you can call it that) ...I couldn't get a sentence to come out of my mouth! I was stumbling over my words, losing my track of mind and let's just say it was not a pretty event!

And I'm sorry to report that even though I tried to remedy the situation by stopping for coffee on my way to the h.s., it was too little too late! I drank a large coffee but my words continued to get tied up in my tongue and the students misbehaved..

and I didn't have the energy to fight them all..

It's like a video game with a teacher looking disheveled and panic stricken (that would be me) trying to fight off over 100 teenagers (way more interested in visiting with friends, throwing little papers at each other and getting themselves in trouble) than listening to lil o me stumble on my words and try to make sense of Spanish!