Dave Ends Up Plus 5¢

Yesterday, in a mad rush to get to the 7 AM Faculty meeting, I forgot my lunch-- and the meeting was a boring explanation of why teachers will no longer be getting "highly effective" grades because administrators are revisiting the language in the Danielson evaluation model . . . super-fascinating, especially for someone who is retiring-- and then this morning, because it's Back-To-School-Night, I wanted to go straight to the gym before going back to school, and so I brought my gym bag, which was green, but forgot my school bag, which is also green-- so I had to get a loaner computer from the library and couldn't leave and reenter the building because I did not have my ID; my class was a humid jungle, absolutely disgusting, but we suffered through (the principal walked by, felt the wave of heat coming out of my classroom and said, "That's awful, you should put a work order in" but I don't know what that will do-- my little portable AC, which is too loud to teach over (or hear the children, they all whisper now when they speak) can't combat the body heat generated by twenty-seven teenage bodies, so there is not any foreseeable solution . .  but I did make it to the gym-- where I learned that my phone is probably dead and the Google Messaging app, which hasn't been working well for two days, completely blacked out-- and the nursery, where I bought some Creeping Jenny and Ajuga-- and then I went home, walked the dog, snacked, saw my wife-- who has no AC at all in her classroom-- she had an awful migraine from the heat and humidity and immediately passed out-- and then I showered, noticed I lost three pounds (water weight) and got back in the car and headed to school, but I stopped for a large can of Coke on the way and it was $2.30 cents and I happened to have cash, $2.35 cents and I thought the register guy was going to give me a nickel back, but instead he just passed me back my dime (and when I got back into the car, I realized why he may have done that, as I had a large booger in my nose and perhaps he felt bad for me) and now I am about to begin my last Back-to-School-Night ever, and that makes me very happ.