October 8: Melissa is trying to get me out of the Beacon Bridge meetings. They plan to hold them for two hours every week during program, which means I would have to take a day off from work just to sit around with people doing a vision board to lead us to the decision that our team building events should feel welcoming.
October 9: Addie had a teeth cleaning today, which means the vet put her under some anesthetic. She is still feeling the effects. She keeps standing up only to walk a few steps forward and staring at the wall for five minutes straight, looking very confused and worried.
October 10: At the end of the day, it suddenly got colder than anyone was prepared for. Maria was contemplating turning on the laminator just to warm up her ha
October 11: Last night, Ana and Melissa had to stay with one of my students until 7:15. Apparently no one in her family noticed she was missing. Her mother wasn’t answering her phone when they called her repeatedly. Eventually, they got ahold of her grandmother. Over an hour and a half late, the first thing the mother did was chide her daughter for bothering the grandmother.
October 12: The entire school gathered into the cafeteria for the Fiesta Latina showcase. Three classes performed songs from “Coco”. During one to them, a single boy spent the whole time doing the worm. In one of the fifth grade songs, the married dance teachers awkwardly inserted themselves by having the class suddenly split in half on the stage and they did a dance solo.
October 13: A ring of running water circles the two sushi chefs. The water contained little wooden boats that were tethered together by three plastic rings connected from one boat’s rudder to the next one’s bow. The chefs were able to fit two or three plates of sushi on each boat as they floated by the customers.
October 14: The lists for traditional anniversary gifts confuse me a bit. There’s the part where they suddenly stop listing every year and only go for the big numbers that end in five or zero, but there’s also the gifts I can’t possibly imagine how they came to be part of the tradition. Why is the sixth either candy or iron? Who decided fourteen years would be animal items? Coral?
October 15: Jai’von was convinced he knew how to get control over Miss Maria. “Are you sure you want to know?” He asked.
“Try me,” said Maria, barely looking up from her phone.
“If you don’t give me a snack, I’m going to tell your man.”
Maria pointed a finger at him and laughed. “Joke’s on you, I don’t have a man. I’m so alone!”
much love,
hedgie
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