Has it been a month yet?

I was trying to go a month.  As Ellen says, "oh well!"

I think we only have 8 or 9 weeks of school left.  That means I have 11 or 12.  I was so hoping to win the lottery, oh well!  Did you know if you make $50K a year and win a lottery that pays out $3million and you quit your job, your yearly income would still average out to be $50K a year?  Oh well, I guess that would take care of my paycheck and Jody could keep working.... *giggle*  Shhh, don't tell him.  $50K a year is a lot more than I make so we'd be quiet happy.

I like my job, don't get me wrong.  I just get really tired of some of the people that come to my job.  Take for instance, a Street Kid looking young girl who came in last week because she had signed a form that needed to be notarized, and she didn't have it notarized.   I put a note on the VOIDED form and sent it back, stating to come in to sign the form and that my notary services are free.  I didn't give her another blank form for fear that she'd sign it again.

When she came in our Receptionist directed her to have a seat in the inner office and wait for our Registrar to help her.  I see her waiting and come out of my office to see if I can help her, but what I notice is that she has both her feet up in the seat of the chair (filthy flip-flops on), she's all curled up like she's either freezing or she's got to pee.  I wanted to bark at her "Get you F-lipping feet off the furniture! You're an adult, act like one!"  But I bit my tongue and asked her if she'd been helped.  She said that she was waiting for the Registrar and just sat there the whole time as if what she was doing was normal.  Sometimes I think we should just get rid of anything that's nice and conduct business like a Vietnamese Donut Store. "Take a number and stand in line!"

Then there's the woman who is physically bigger than everyone else, so she thinks that she has the right to just barge into anyone's office (mine, the counselor's, the Assistant Principal's, even the Principal's) whether someone else is in the office before her in mid-sentence or not.  She's just that much more important than everyone else.  Bully....

It's not just the women, there's the man who demands that we enroll his twins in the PreK program if you qualify for the program we enroll everyone, you don't have to demand.  When the registrar points out that he hasn't marked a preference of race on the form, he says proudly that he's Egyptian! Egyptian is NOT one of the choices.  To which the registrar proudly says "Oh, I'm CUBAN!" and points to me in my office and says "And she's a TEXAN!  So which race would you prefer or shall we select one for you?"

Let's not leave out the lady who was found loading a huge shopping bag with cookies, cakes and treats that were set out in the Teachers' Lounge FOR the teachers.  When asked by a teacher what she was doing she calmly said that she was "bagging stuff up for my family...."  Tick Tock people!  Get your feed bag on!  These cookies are getting hard!!

Like my momma used to say "if you don't have something nice to say then keep your mouth shut!"  So I've been keeping my mouth shut for about a month now.  I've also been thinking about moving to another country, Costa Rica maybe.  I'll have to check it out.  I hear the people there are very friendly and the dental work is cheap.

In the mean-time I'll be here knitting.

Oh well!