is what she said to me. she said she thinks it's why she never got married, b/c she was always at school. she was talking about how we should be going out with our friends until wee hours of the morning. how does a repsonsible adult do that though? the older i get, the weirder it seems to me to be able to do that, and then go teach? espcially middle school. sound body equals sound mind equals sound teaching yeah? i mean, i kind of flipped during the earthquake drill today. i need to not yell and get so irritated. however all i have to say is WTF?!?!?! if they have been doing this for most of their school lives, then why the F aren't they taking things more seriously? we're talking kids ending up seriously injured or dead b/c they don't know what to do b/c they're acting like preschoolers during a drill. maybe i'm taking this too seriously, but i have been in situations where adults flipped out and couldn't handle something relatively minor and if the kids can't keep it together enough to follow instructions and something like that happens...whoo boy! also, why do i have to walk my kids across the Fing blacktop between two buildings to get to my assigned spot? why don't i just go out the backdoor and to the parking lot to the field? that seems more roundabout but safer...plus, our admin sucks and just keeps sucking harder. idk. thing is, this is my life. this is my intended purpose. God created me to do this, teach middle school. it's a spiritual gift, loving/understanding them the way that i do. and i'm far from perfect at it, but boy does that knowledge help me deal with a lot of the crap we have to put up with. there is a lot that is wrong with my life and heck, there is a lot that could be improved upon with my teaching, but this is the one thing i've gotten consistently right and that means something to me.