Melissa and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Bad Day.

(This is the view from my window).

Things aren't going my way.

7am -- good start to the day, since we normally have to get up at 5am to catch the bus. Today, our classes don't start 'til 9am. Get ready at a leisurely pace since breakfast doesn't end 'til 9am. Decide to stroll over at 8:30 and just pick up a bagel and some coffee. On my way there, I find out that they are already closed...no biggie since I normally don't have breakfast anyway.

9am -- find out that we were supposed to pick up bagged lunches and that the cafeteria is not an option. Lunch pick-up ended at 8:15am. Crap.

10-12pm -- watch hungrily on as people snack on and eat their bagged lunches.

12pm -- find out that New York state has no record of the results of my TB test which were supposed to be faxed over from Baltimore last Monday. Without the test results I am not allowed to teach on Tuesday.

12:15pm -- find out that the Baltimore office will be closed until Tuesday.

1pm -- find out that all of my hard work (including, but not limited to, lots and lots of room decorations, management plans, lesson plans, a student achievement plan for the WHOLE SUMMER) was in vain because my collaborative group was going to be dissolved to meet the demands of the school.

1:15pm -- found out that not only was my collaborative group dissolved, but I was the only person in the whole school to be switched to a completely different Advisor group. New advisor + new people who have been bonding with each other for the past week = Melissa as a total outsider.

1:30pm -- learn that my new class will be bilingual. Caramba!

2pm -- new collaborative group seems really nice, but are also going away for the weekend. Meaning, they don't have the time to sit down with me and go over their game plan, nor do I have ANY input on what my summer class is going to be like.

2:15pm -- sprain ankle in front of 100 people. Seriously -- we were just getting out of an assembly and I was in front of the entire group.

3pm -- because of said sprained ankle I miss out on Dee's birthday party. Also, everyone's going dancing tonight. Cry!

6:30pm -- on way back from dinner it starts to pour. While everyone else can run for shelter, I'm caught hobbling through the rain...in flip-flops.

6:36pm -- slip on flip-flops in rain. Twist knee...am now hobbling on two messed up legs.

Also, as a forecast of bad days to come, I'm going to have to wear three inch heels on Tuesday -- with my messed up ankle -- as I do not have any other school-appropriate shoes.

Please end this day by shooting me in the head.