I'm getting my own office!!

The school has finally decided that it is time for me to get my own office!  I have been at the school so much lately, 3 full days last week, 2 days this week.  When will the madness end?  Oh, yeah...June 28.  The school has not yet offered to pay me but I do get my own space.  Ok, maybe not a "space", but an area where the kids know that I will be, and the teachers too, for when they need me.  Maybe area is too grand of a word.....essentially I am getting a corner...... in the hallway......where I can just stand until I am needed.  I can just stand there, face to the wall, reading my emails from all the teachers that need my assistance.

Never mind, it's not that good of an offer.  I will refuse the hallway corner and just do my own thing until they call, text, email me, or hunt me down in person to do what they need.

I have to admit, I have done some pretty cool things this year with the school.  I got to go to Science school for a week with the Grade 3's, a fancy French restaurant with the Grade 7's, I chaperoned a concert and a play, planted flowers and pulled weeds, made clay, took pictures and a whole bunch of other things.  That was just the last 2 months, all the other things I have done the rest of the year has been placed some where in my brain that I don't have access to right now.

I am not complaining, I do love to be at the school, with my kids and their friends.  They all STILL think I am cool too!  Take that dummies from my high school!  I am totally cool now!  Side story - I was at my husband's soccer game a few weeks ago and he found me after the game surrounded by a bunch of 7-12 year old boys.  They thought I was cool too!  They all wanted to talk to me, I felt like a celebrity!

I guess now that I am all grown up, coolness takes on a whole new meaning.  I do get to lecture all the kids that come my way.  I spoke to a whole bunch of the Grade 7's about dating and how unnecessary it is.  One of the Grade 7 boys is a big fan of mine, ok more than one, but this one in particular makes my daughter jealous because he'll talk to me and not her!  It's not my fault!  I command attention!

In this rare minute of calm before the next shit storm happens, I can sit back and be happy about my new found coolness and relish in the fact that finally, finally, the junior high boys like me!