Can't trust a Monday...

September 13, 2010 

Went to work at 8 this morning and spent a half hour in the toddler room before I headed over to the Blue Room (Pre-tods) to help Erin out for an hour. I then, unfortunately, had to go back to the toddler room where the morning actually went pretty fast because we played play dough and then spent an hour outside. While outside, Yana took her hour break, so Ashley and I were outside alone and I swear, the one minute that Ashley and I were even standing remotely close to each other, was the second that Jo came out to yell at us for talking. I seriously think she was sitting in the staff lounge just waiting for us to do something, so she could yell at us.

I then breaked Ashley for a half hour before I went back to the toddler room and served lunch. Finally got to leave on my lunch break and then was alone in the toddler room for the afternoon with the new teacher who barely speaks English. The kids don't listen to her, she speaks limited English and, in the half hour it took for me to change all of the kids' diapers, the room was a mess, a child hit his head (she couldn't even write the accident report for it) and everything was absolutely mayhem until I finished and made the kids clean up... It's going to be a long week of afternoons if today is any indication. Then was 15 minutes late for giving Tasha her 15 minute break, which was stressful, but it all ended up working out okay. 

After work, I went down to the library, which was closed. I ended up sitting in the hall for all of about 5 minutes before this lady rudely came in and told me she was going to kick me out, but, luckily, her co-worker was sticking around and said it was fine for me to stay until she left work. Erin showed up about a half hour later and then we were told the building was officially closed, so we vacated and went out to our picnic table post. Spent an hour or two on internet, came home, burned the first batch of chicken nuggets in our microwave, ended up baking them in the oven, had pickles and corn as a side dish, started laundry, watched a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother and started watching 27 dresses. 

Time for bed now. Yay for Monday being down! Three days until my Birthday! Four/five days until the ice bar to celebrate my Birthday. And, hopefully, six days until the horseback riding trip through Wales. YAY!

Things I learned today: 

1. Paid staff at the CDC only works half days, but Erin and I, since we're free labor, work 8 hour days. Also, when CDC staff works 8 hour days, they get two one-hour lunch breaks. We get one... Not sure how this sounds fair??