Not-so-random bullets of hell:
- I collect 45 AP research papers on Friday.
- Each paper will easily take me 30 minutes to read and grade.
- I have a lot of other ongoing assignments with my sophomores this week.
- I had to take a sub day Tuesday for jury duty.
- They wouldn't let me postpone jury duty another time.
- I cannot do it this summer because I'm paying thousands of dollars to take classes for my master's degree.
- It's the last two weeks of school, and I have tons to grade and things to finish up with my students.
- For me, school's not out until it's out.
- I was on a jury almost two summers ago, in 2006, and they made me the foreperson despite the fact that I was the second youngest person in the room.
- I prayed heavily that I would not get selected, for all the reasons I listed above this bullet point.
- Jury duty on Tuesday -- my name is called in the very first pool.
- Once in the courtroom, my name is called in the very first pool.
- After being told it was a criminal matter involving theft in Tar-jay (the very one I shop at, even), I 'fessed up to the fact that my father just retired after 25 years with local law enforcement agency, and that my sister has worked in retail and loss prevention. I figured they would dismiss me.
- They didn't dismiss me. I was the last effing juror. Are you kidding me?!
- The whole jury was shocked at this.
- I went home and cried out of extreme frustration.
- I've spent the past three days working two full-time jobs.
- People outside of education do not understand what time and energy goes into making good sub plans (hours, for me), preparing a room for a sub, and cleaning up a room after a sub, and gradign all the crap you had your kids do in order to keep them productively busy.
- The case was tedious, frustrating, and petty (literally and figuratively -- the count was petty theft).
- They rested yesterday, which meant closing arguments today.
- They made me the foreperson again, even though, again, I was the youngest person there.
- Fortunately, we came to a verdict today, though it took nearly all day.
- She was guilty.
- I wonder if defense wishes he had dismissed me. God knows I do.
- I'm off to grade research projects.
- All I want is a nap.
4 comments:
It all sounds frustrating and overwhelming. I'm sorry. Praying you get a respite soon!
Good heavens, Hades indeed!
The good thing, for me, is that reading your post is helping me just to suck it up and stop whining about the amount of grading I have left to do, which is much less by this point than yours. And I've been very whiny this week, so everyone will be pleased that I've stopped.
(Also, thanks for your comments about my portfolio post. I feel affirmed and much calmer about the whole thing now.)
thanks to you both for your words of support and encouragement. i went to school today, and my kids seemed relieved to see me, so that counts for something. after an evening of _the 4400_ on dvd (and after a drink or two), i feel a lot better. it will be a heavy weekend of grading, but i'll sleep in tomorrow to make up for it (in advance). :-) i think i'm done ranting. it'll make a hilarious story...next year.
I've been called for jury duty in a couple of weeks, but I'm going to write on Monday and request a postponement since I'm home with the kids for the summer. I hope your last batches of papers are good and you can move through them quickly and finish out the semester.
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