it's like that
After school, two of my students were hanging outside a classroom with another kid I didn't know. I asked what they were doing, and the other kid kept answering. "I just wanna know why two of my favorite kids are hanging outside like that." "Who are two of your favorite kids?" "Well, since I don't know you, clearly the other two and not you." "Oh, so it's like that!"
Oh yeah. It's always like that. Every time a kid says that to me, it's always YES.
I got pulled out of my class without warning today for a long-ass interview with a school improvement team hired with state funds. Does our school need improvement? Hell yeah. Could I have maybe been warned so I could plan for my kids to not sit there with nothing to do? Yeah. Flanders covered and he couldn't even teach them how to read Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare. Good grief. "They had a hard time understanding," he said. "Yeah, that's why it has to be taught and explained to them." Just shoot me.
But this team, they asked me all sorts of questions and they did not like my answers. Like all about my job, and I'm like, look nobody trains me or tells me jack, and I do the best I can, and I'm leaving. I don't have short-timer syndrome, not about doing what I need to. Anyway, it was not pleasant.
And just now my doctor called and says I show signs of hyperactive thyroid (those people are supposed to be THIN! Which I sure ain't) and I have to do a full hormone lab workup. Fuck me.
And now I'm on hold with the front desk, which costs me 10 cents a minute, but at least it's playing "Besame" which is a lovely song.
My last good doctor (also an African-American woman, by the way) told me I showed hyperactive thyroid, too, and I kind of dodged her about it and then changed doctors. I'm not willing to kill part of my thyroid or go on medication or anything else. Yeah, I lose too much hair and my brain goes way too quickly sometimes, but if it's already hard for me to lose weight, I can only imagine what I would be like with medication that slows it all down. And not just that - but I don't trust medication at all, really - especially because I've heard SO many horror stories about thyroid medication problems - killing too much thyroid and being on drugs forever, etc. I don't have really any of the hyperthyroid symptoms, except for fast cycling, and most doctors don't know that connection.
Ugh. I don't want to deal with this.
Oh yeah. It's always like that. Every time a kid says that to me, it's always YES.
I got pulled out of my class without warning today for a long-ass interview with a school improvement team hired with state funds. Does our school need improvement? Hell yeah. Could I have maybe been warned so I could plan for my kids to not sit there with nothing to do? Yeah. Flanders covered and he couldn't even teach them how to read Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare. Good grief. "They had a hard time understanding," he said. "Yeah, that's why it has to be taught and explained to them." Just shoot me.
But this team, they asked me all sorts of questions and they did not like my answers. Like all about my job, and I'm like, look nobody trains me or tells me jack, and I do the best I can, and I'm leaving. I don't have short-timer syndrome, not about doing what I need to. Anyway, it was not pleasant.
And just now my doctor called and says I show signs of hyperactive thyroid (those people are supposed to be THIN! Which I sure ain't) and I have to do a full hormone lab workup. Fuck me.
And now I'm on hold with the front desk, which costs me 10 cents a minute, but at least it's playing "Besame" which is a lovely song.
My last good doctor (also an African-American woman, by the way) told me I showed hyperactive thyroid, too, and I kind of dodged her about it and then changed doctors. I'm not willing to kill part of my thyroid or go on medication or anything else. Yeah, I lose too much hair and my brain goes way too quickly sometimes, but if it's already hard for me to lose weight, I can only imagine what I would be like with medication that slows it all down. And not just that - but I don't trust medication at all, really - especially because I've heard SO many horror stories about thyroid medication problems - killing too much thyroid and being on drugs forever, etc. I don't have really any of the hyperthyroid symptoms, except for fast cycling, and most doctors don't know that connection.
Ugh. I don't want to deal with this.
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