Sabotage!

My day was going phenomenal! I had just finished lecturing my 3rd period honors students (13 girls, 2 boys) on how they are a privileged youth and should be grateful that they are able to be informed and taught about issues that are controversial so that they may one day form their own opinions and do so with a bit of knowledge in their brains. This lecture was spawned from one of my snotty-female students saying, "Like, I don't wanna sound like, uncaring or anything, but I am just getting tired of talking about the genocide in Darfur." Um, excuse me? Well why don't you give me that left arm of yours and let me sneak attack you from behind the desk and chop it off with a machete. Either that or you have to learn how to sneak attack others and chop off random body parts too. It's a much bigger decision than the pedicure with the French finish or the Mani/Pedi combo!

So after I leapt from atop my soapbox (fitting, because I am sure if I were a public speaker I'd be using some makeshift stand to hoist myself up at this point in my career/life) I proudly walked to my brand new, five year old, eight people used, DELL computer and saw that some blue screen had swallowed all of my nice, organized files. One of my two male students answered his nerdy little call to duty and tried to resuscitate my dead pile of crap, but we were unable to wish it back to life. I have lost my lists of things (I love lists!) I have lost all my plans (I also love plans!).

I feel that these small trials I am being tested with are signs that I have wronged someone or broken some universal rule and now I must pay in head pain, heart burn, and tummy knots, but I can't figure out what I have done. I have recently put down a nasty habit which makes my stress much harder to deal with, but soon will be replacing that nasty habit with a little Hot Latin! Sounds steamy, right? I am gonna learn to salsa dance and maybe other dancing...not sure exactly, but totally pumped about it. Trying to find new projects to counter the stress of teaching is a super fun task!