The EYE is watching you

Wow! Exciting things happened this holiday season. After a looong but fun vacation at home where I received long awaited Marc Jacobs perfume and a cool minidisc player, I got home and decided I needed MORE STUFF and i bought a digital camera. Now I can upload lots and lots of cool and exciting pictures to this blog. And yes by cool and exciting I mean pictures of henry the cat.

Here's a long story about my school : So I'm a teacher and on Friday we had a teacher in-service day where we would be evaluated on our teaching/assessing, etc. As a teacher it is not all fun and games, we have to keep all sorts of records on our students, fill out a lot of paperwork, etc. The teacher across the hall from me (, let's call her Ms. Stinky Awful Teacher (SAT), is, despite her fifteen years experience, incredibly disorganized, a terrible teacher (1-she has no behavior management, 2-she can't teach AT ALL--unless your idea of teaching is sitting your fat ass at a desk and giving out handouts to five year olds who don't know what they're doing), and she has terrible BO. I wouldn't not mention this if it were not truly heinous.

She has been stressed out because the new administration is trying to get rid of Ms. SAT for being stinky. It's her first year of kindergarten (she was in fourth grade, but they had to move her for being stinky). and they're watching her performance all the time, and it's like she doesn't even care. But the worst is, she waits until the last minute and then asks myself, and our extremely efficient lead teacher Ms. EEL to pick up her slack. Thursday, while ms. eel was picking up her daughter from school, ms.SAT snuck into her room and stole (YEAH, i said it!), a portfolio and a math test because she did not have ANY and did not even have a clue as to what should be in them--keeping in mind that a portfolio is a folder of each student's work that should have been accumulated over the semester. So she TOOOK it, as well as taking Ms. Eel's self evaluation which asked a bunch of gibberish questions about how we rated our own teaching abilities and then COPIED it. The funny thing about ms sat is that we both really dislike the way she does things, yet she seems to have no clue that we hold any animosity towards her. And also, I tried to like her. I really did--i tried to look over the bad BO, I tried to answer her endless and often repeated jackass questions about things she was just trained in, but i got really tired of her lazy butt attitude.

So the next day after her meeting with our principal, Dr. X, she came out crying and complaining. I feel bad for her because her job is seriously on the line, and the new administration does want to keep inept pple at their jobs. At the same time it's hard to feel sorry for someone who lies and steals and doesn't actually do any work.