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This was one heck of a week! Although, it did go fast...

The big project of the week? The yearbook! I am one of the advisors for this year's yearbook. I have never done a yearbook before, so most of the beginning of the school year was spent with me learning how to do it. However, several weeks ago, my co-advisor was out on medical leave, unexpectedly. She is better now, and was able to help me finish it this week, but I was running solo, along with my staff of students, for a couple of weeks. ANYWAY, our deadline was Friday. Thursday night, my co-advisor and I were at school until 9:30 finishing the yearbook! We had it almost all of the way done; we just had a few more team pictures to take, and then, it just had to go out in the mail.

So, I get to school Friday morning, to be greeted to an angry e-mail from a normally supportive parent. She was upset because her daughter was absent the day I took the yearbook staff photo. I had attempted to do a re-take on several other meetings, but someone was always missing. I felt it best to go with the one that I took originally. Well, this parent was upset that her 8th grade daughter was not going to be included, and demanded that I retake the picture, or she would bring it to my principal's attention. I reluctantly replied, telling her that I would TRY to retake the picture, and showed the e-mail to my co-advisor, who was PISSED beyond belief. She went to the principal, who said we had to retake the picture. So, I retook it at lunch; the rest of the yearbook team was ANNOYED with this student that she got special treatment. I just kept repeat, "we have to do what is fair" (even though it isn't). We ended up with a terrible picture, because half of the yearbook staff refused to smile in protest, but we had to go with that.

The other issue dealt with the ads. Parents can buy space to place messages to their graduating students. Well, we had received many ads, and it was difficult to fit them all together, but we accomplished it on Thursday night. Well despite the fact that the deadline was WEDNESDAY, we received THREE more ads Friday morning!! I would have turned them down, except one was from a particular parent who I had an ugly run-in with last year, and I now know to stay out of his and his daughter's way, if I want to save my job, so I had to redo most of the ad pages.

BUT, we did get it all done at the end of the day, and it is off in the mail.

I was also sick this week, no voice and all of that other stuff. I was out on Wednesday, which I didn't want to do, because I had so much to do. I also had poster projects due this week from ALL of my middle school students, so when I got back to school, I had all of these posters to check in. Also, I was out on Thursday, because it was the Teen Arts festival at the community college, and I was taking my trumpet trio.

But the week is over, and I can relax, except that I finished the bathroom today. It looks great, a beach theme. I'll post a picture when I take some!

Let's hope next week is easier.