The World Is Full of Stupid People . . . And I'm One of Them!

I generally consider myself to be fairly organized and on top of things. I write things down, post-it notes are my best friend, I consider my label maker to be one of the best purchases of my life, and I have folders within folders within folders on my computer hard drive. However, this last week, I have to admit I had a full blown stupid week.

Exhibit A
My class was lunch serving this week. This means that at 10:55 a.m., I have to send 7 kids down to help serve lunch. Day 1, I wasn't informed of this until about 10:45 a.m. so I just sent 7 kids I knew would be able to catch up on the work they missed. By the time Day 2 rolled around, I forgot we had lunch servers and my students had to remind me. On Day 3, I remembered and talked with my students about it before morning recess. By the end of morning recess, I had forgotten. At 10:50 a.m. one of my students said, "What about lunch servers?" I promptly responded, "Oh, snap!!" Of course, they laughed, and I managed to get some lunch servers down. And what do we learn from Exhibit A? That my short term memory stinks. Or maybe the lesson is that I spend too much time with Sarah . . . . (Oh, snap!!)

Exhibit B
During the aforementioned week of lunch serving, I decided that I didn't want to start math before all the students had returned from serving lunch. So, we went outside to run laps for about 30 minutes. When we came back in, I got the kids settled, and I was just about to start our math lesson for the day . . . when my technology teacher walked in and asked if I was ready for her. Imagine, if you would, a blank stare on my face at this point. "You forgot, didn't you?" Yep, I had forgotten that I had signed up for her to come in and teach a lesson with my kids. At least she wasn't observing me that day!

So, we decided to forgo math for the day, and have a cooperative learning lesson by her instead. As she was talking with my class, she said, "Everyone make sure you remind your teacher she has an assignment due before 4:00 this afternoon." Imagine, if you would, a blank stare on my face at this point. "Um, what assignment would that be?," I stupidly asked, only to have pointed out to me that the assignment reminder had been emailed the day before. I had read the email, thought to myself, "I'm done with that" and proceeded to ignore the rest of it. Only, I hadn't really done the assignment. I just thought I had. And so, I must confess, I had two "duh" moments within 30 minutes . . . . great.

I'm sure there are many, many more examples of my stupidity this week . . . with parent teacher conferences and all. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I seem to have forgotten them. Ironic, considering the root of all my recent stupidity has been my uncharacteristic forgetfulness!

(And just as a side note, I did manage to finish my assignment within like 15 minutes of school ending before my first conference . . . posted on the website and everything! At least I can still B.S. papers pretty well, even in the midst of my stupidity!)