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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Ugh

I'm pretty sure I mentioned the craziness over the air conditioner. It was fine when school started, but in the rest of the rooms it didn't work at all. So they hired an independent contractor to come in and fix them. Neat. Except, they broke mine. So for the first three weeks of school it was great in my room. Then the air conditioner broke and it averaged 92 degrees by the end of the day. THEN, they fixed the friggin air conditioner and it broke again. Unfortunately, it broke ON, so we were unable to turn it off. So when I went into my classroom in the morning, it was under 50 degrees. I felt like I was working for the Keystone Cops.

The week that it was arctic in my classroom, I had a major allergy fit. It was horrible. I had a sneeze stuck up in my sinuses for a week. Add that to the sub zero temperatures in my room, and you have a full blown head cold.

So I took a day off this week to get better. Of course, the bulk of the cold hit me over the weekend, so my weekend sucked. I had heard that it was warmer on Monday, so I wasn't afraid of going back to school. Then Tuesday morning I get there and it's under 50 on my thermostat again.

Two days of that and my cold is back.

I'll be staying in bed again tomorrow.

posted by lobo5747 @ 3:36 PM