You will be happy to know that Jim and I enjoyed our new spa all weekend long! It wasn't quite up to temp on Friday but by Saturday morning it was at 100 degrees and felt oh so good. I think we spent about an hour in it Saturday morning just reveling in our new toy. Saturday night we enjoyed it again with a grasshopper and some music. It was lovely. Sunday after breakfast and my walk I got in to swim. I actually turned the temp down from the 104 since the next several days are going to be around 70. Plus swimming in 104 temps is not easy.
The one downside of everything is I can't seem to get my pH and alkalinity levels right. They're way too high. It's frustrating. I'll have Jim call today to find out what exactly we need to do because I'm confounded and it's stressing me out.
In school news, the shit hit the fan over the weekend. As I mentioned last week, there was a fear that they were gearing up to create a new position: Dean of Students. Well, at 1:18 on Friday afternoon my jackass principal sent out a paragraphs long email where at the bottom he explained that they were indeed going to post for a part-time dean of students/math teacher. I mean, WHAT!? I can tell you the bunch of ladies I eat with were furious. Three of us sent out emails. Mine was probably a little to, shall we say, in your face and maybe a little aggressive. Oops. Here's what I wrote:
So to be clear, you are not replacing Jane's position with a full time position? You are creating an admin position even though we've all been told that there is a basic hiring freeze? This is the first that any of us are hearing about a "dean of students" and there's been no job description given to clarify what that will entail. (And according to the calendar the discussions for this position have been happening since August.)And, rather than explain this in our staff meeting where we were all gathered on Thursday which would have allowed for some much needed questions to be answered, this email went out on Friday at 1:18?
In the spirit of transparency, I'd like to know what it means when you say that this position will allow the administration "more time to focus on instruction". What instruction exactly are you talking about?
There is a lot of uncertainty in our profession right now with everything that's happening, politically. It seems that the administration should be working hard to quell our uneasiness rather than fostering what seems to be underhanded tactics.
So frustrating, right? Interestingly, two of the ladies I eat with also sent emails and they got a response from my principal. I didn't. I find that interesting. I guess he didn't like my tone. Oh well...they're going to do what they want to do and I just have to muddle through like always. It's just so disappointing. And there's so much more that is wrong with the things going on in my school...I could go on and on but I won't. Instead I'll try to have a better attitude.
Dinner tonight: Since I didn't cook what I'd planned yesterday (Trip, Susan and JJ came over to swim and then we went to Shooters for dinner) I'll make it tonight: Creamy Sausage Rigatoni with a salad.
The week should be pretty easy especially with the weather we're going to have - 70s all week. I'll break out my flip flops tomorrow! (It's still a little to cold for my tootsies this morning.) I do have a short meeting on Friday for an IEP amendment but that should only take about 15 minutes.
K - time to get this show on the road. Later!
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