Mediocre Dreams

It was a rough day today. I had two classes muddled into one room, giving two lessons, trying to lecture mine while making the other class work quietly. I didn't get a lunch break as 4th period one group goes at A Lunch meaning the beginning of the class period, and one went at the end.

And I couldn't arbitrarily combine or hold back one group or the other.

Today, fatigued with the class loads, the loud students, and (in the middle of my worst class) I got a text from my sister who told me my mother was diagnosed with cancer, and has stage-3 Lymphoma, and has a 50% chance of survival through chemo and drug treatments.

I got the news & couldn't stop to call my family because we were short-handed, and when the news (text) took the wind from my sails, the kids became bigger assholes and I just didn't have the heart to fuckin' argue or fight them.