It's a New School Year B*tches! in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of HAPPINESS

I know that you guys have just been DYING to hear about my first 3 days back to work (not really). Remember how I was worried about where I would sit on inservice day since last year I pretty much got booted from a table of snobby teachers? Yeah well, Wednesday morning before work I received an email from the Principal saying that this year he placed our names at tables. I was ECSTATIC! I swear he did this for me specifically because he witnessed the whole thing last year where I just ended up sitting somewhere else since people kept asking me to change seats with them so they could sit together.

I was PLEASANTLY surprised at how well it went!!! I mean, in general this group of staff is less combative than the staff at the last school I was at. It was nice being greeted like the celebrity I am for coming back. I mean, I at least talked to WAY MORE people at this school than the last, but I also know exactly whom I can talk to about what. I have certain people to go to for different things. If I need help, I go to a certain person. If I want to know who a person is that I don’t recognize, I go to a certain person. If I want to gossip and it’s general gossip, I have my people. If the gossip is person specific, I have my person I go to…and if I don’t want word to get around about something and want to talk shit, I have someone to go to for that (the school nurse! LOVE HER so much). Now with that said, there are some new staff that I don’t recognize! There’s a chick…she seems quite young, but I made sure to introduce myself. I keep trying to talk to her and make conversation, but she is just not responsive. LOL. Like literally, I’m like “Hey! How’s it going?” “Where are you headed?” “How are you?” “So you started working here last year?”…like I literally spent 3 days trying to talk to this person and she just seems not interested in knowing me. LOL. I’ve decided to stop trying to be honest. She has RBF (resting bitch face) anyway.

I ALSO have been reminded why I immediately wanted to transfer last year. I just feel like…there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. I don’t know any other way to say that. SO many people have been working in education for so long that they’re set in their ways and are so dismissive of new ideas. Like it’s already set in stone for years to come who will do what. For example, there’s a woman who ALWAYS volunteers to do everything artistic crafty and fun. She makes all the t-shirts, she decorates all the bulletin boards, she does this and does that. People just let her DO EVERYTHING. Every idea that she has is GOLDEN! Anyone elses ideas aren’t even heard let alone implemented. There’s a handful of people that have the exact same job as me but they for some reason think they’re in charge of everything. We split up into different committees. This year, I’m finally on the committee that I WANT to be on. It’s social committee…I love parties and planning and events…so I was so happy to finally get my first choice. ANYWAY so we’re sitting in our committee meeting and literally NO ONE was listening to my ideas. I would suggest something and then eventually someone else would say something similar or sometimes the exact same thing and then it was the BEST IDEA IN THE WORLD! It was absolutely MADDENING! Never mind the other people with my exact job title trying to delegate things for me to do. “If you need something to do, you can do this”....NO…I don’t need something to do. LOL and who are you to be telling me what I can be doing? Ugh! There’s just....too many Chiefs! I tell ya!

All in all though, it was a good 3 days back! Everyone that I know (which is mostly everyone) seemed happy to have me back. It did make me sad though to think about my babies not being at school with me this year. Hearing other employees talking about their kids that will be there. A new employee that’s little one will be in kindergarten this year. It just makes me sad. I did everything I could to try to get my son at school with me but I just never found daycare in that area and now their preschool is FULL for AM and PM. And if you’re wondering, NO i still have not found daycare for my son. One day I sat down and called maybe 13-14 different daycares and only one answered. And she was so nice and she lives in the area of my sons school and the first thing I asked was if she accepted state subsidy for daycare. THANK THE HEAVENS SHE DOES! BUT she was out of town on vacation, so I’m scheduled to go to her home and meet her on Monday. Please cross your fingers because she sounds sane and normal and NICE. My daughter had cheer camp this week and another camp that her school does every year where kids can sign up and go to school for the week. They haven’t assigned the kids to their teachers yet, so all of the seconds graders that signed up get to spend a few hours with the 3 different 2nd grade teachers. They do some reading and math and some fun stuff…it’s just like 2 hours a day. Yesterday on the last day, they made ice cream! My daughter seemed to have a good time.

OOOOH I almost forgot....I signed my daughter up for Volleyball. Her school is putting a team together for the YMCA. So there goes my Saturdays from now until October. And I think there are 5 home games for football that she’ll have to cheer at. She’s got a big schoolwide family event next week. It’s like a field day competition for everyone…that should be fun (or funny). It’s next Friday evening. I didn’t get to attend the big back to school family event (It was an ice cream social) last year due to having Covid.

Speaking of COVID, I was literally the only one in the building wearing a mask!!! I felt so awkward and I normally don’t, but it was during inservice this time last year with these same people that I got it. I have PTSD, I’m going to wear a mask forever!!! Okay maybe not forever, but…