Half A Day Wasted

I can't tell you how annoyed and pissed I was at the administration or curriculum directors or whoever that made us sit through a mindless, pointless, what-does-this-have-to-do-with-education, hour-long talk by some grass eater from the Whole Foods yesterday. Ridiculous!  What the F&%K kind of waste of money was that!?  Seriously!  At one point the woman speaking said, "BM's are important!"  And I nearly lost my shit when she started a sentence with, "My first experience with lentils was..."  Really?!  Do you think I don't know that French fries aren't great for you?  Or that I should eat more fruits and vegetables!?  I don't need YOU Lady Granola, telling me to get closer to nature in my eating! Or that we are fatter than we've ever been as a society! ARG! I'm hoping they send out a survey to ask us about our day because they are not going to like my answers.  Of course, knowing that most if not all the staff will be throwing scathing reviews at them, they would be smart NOT to send a survey out. 

THEN! We sit through another hour and a half of mindless, time-wasting bullshit having to do with our new teacher evaluation shit. They made us put together "evidence" of how we could be considered "accomplished" (the highest rating) but give us no guidance.  Then!!! After struggling through that and reaching a frustration level that left me nearly to the point of telling all the administrators I saw to go f%&k themselves, we get back from lunch to find that our principal had all of this information already complete. He had done it at his former school and over lunch had emailed it to everyone.  Awesome...more time wasted. 

The final portion of our day wasn't bad.  We were given a short and sweet PowerPoint presentation (most of which was flipped through with the direction that if we want to read it ourselves it's available on the school network) and then given the major scoop of teacher evaluation in short, clear, concise language. Questions were asked and answered and I actually felt like I may be headed in the right direction toward knowing what the f&%k I'll be doing next year.  I'm sure all that will change when the state decides to switch everything up again. 

I have a bad attitude.

So thank God it's Wednesday.  We're half way through a long week and it's shortened bells today.  I just need a normal day!  No parent/teacher conferences...no in-service...just a day to teach and do what I need to do. 

BTW - I made a dish last night - Pasta a la Betsy - from the Pioneer Woman...YUM!  It's on my Pinterest board under "Fish" (it's made with shrimp).  Finger-licking, plate-licking good!

K - well, I guess that's all I have.  I promise tomorrow not to bitch all post long.  I hate people who complain about everything and I feel like that's been me lately so sorry!  I'll try to do better (of course this election doesn't leave me in a good spot to do that! Oops, I slipped).  K - later!