I've been totally pwn'd by going green.

Apparently, it's not meant for me to go totally green. When I was 12, I bought a hemp bracelet. I put it on, and in an hour my arm was covered in a rash. My assumption was... I'm allergic to hemp, and I've avoided it like the plague ever since. I've been shopping around looking for environmentally friendly replacements for the stuff I need to buy (like a hat, gloves, scarves... cause I lose them every year) and EVERYTHING I'm finding has some blend of hemp in it. Am I being ridiculous because I broke out once? I suppose it could have been something else that caused the reaction, but honestly... why pay $20 for something I can't wear?

Does anyone know where I can find PURE organic cotton (or wool!) accessories?

I'm still looking, of course, but I'm getting frustrated.

Work has been so hectic and crazy I haven't had a chance to post in the longest. It's going really well, teaching... save one class. They drive me insane. I contemplate murder.

Besides that... I had a Snape moment when I made a girl cry by giving her her grade. I've been filling in for a teacher - we have a staff member who had to have back surgery, and I'm filling in for the teacher teaching her Calculus class - and I didn't have access to his grades for them. They've had one quiz, one test, and then homework grades. She missed a quiz (30% of her grade from ME... not combined) and so it was a zero. Before I handed it to her I tried to explain. I knew she had emotional problems. She wouldn't listen to my explanation and just kept asking for her grade. I handed it to her, and the tears started. Total breakdown. And no amount of explaining to her was helping. Part of me wanted to walk away and leave her like that. I didn't. I talked to her calmly and rationally for 20 minutes, while the OTHER students WAITED to get their grades and make-up work.

I got Guitar Hero 3. It's a LOT harder on Hard than GH2 OR Rocks the 80s, but I've been having fun playing through the playlist. The most difficult thing is getting used to the new controller. It's wireless on the PS3 and the lag is a bit different than the wired one one the PS2.

I think... that's about it for now. I've got a meme to post that I stole from whiner. Fill it out if you get the chance.

( Follow the meme... )

EDIT: OMG. Forgot to tell you. I saw Bucket of Blood which is Will's first cameo movie. It's about some kid who works at a coffee/art bar as a bus boy. He accidentally kills his landlady's cat and he covers it in plaster, and the artists who have always made fun of him suddenly think he's an art genius. They demand more art, and he starts killing humans. Will's cameo goes like this:

Will: *staring at cat* That's the most awesome thing ever.
Artist: Want to buy it?
Will: I don't have money to buy art.
Artist: Oh. Ok.
Will: *ducks out of the scene and hits his head on the metal stares behind him*

*later*

Will: I found five dollars. Can I buy your cat?

It's HYSTERICAL. In fact, if you like corny B-grade (I'm not even sure it's B-grade to be honest) horror flicks, you HAVE to see it.

I haven't had much time to think/breathe/write/post this past week. There's so much to get done that it's absolutely ridiculous. I spent most of last week on a great treasure hunt for things that weren't broken. The desk originally in my room was junk, and that's putting it mildly.The right side of the desk was held up by a piece of furniture that wasn't even part of the desk, and it wasn't tall enough, so the previous teacher added an algebra book underneath it to prop it up. The three drawers on the left hand side didn't work; if you opened one all three opened. I had to go on a treasure hunt to find another desk. Luckily, I was walking through a science room and I looked through a window into a classroom and saw two teacher desks. The teacher in there said he didn't want it, so I moved it the next day (after getting tired of waiting for maintenance to do it for me).

The chair that was in there was crap. One cushiony arm thingy was missing entirely and it was just bare metal, and the other one had no cushion but the wood that the upholestery was stapled to was left. Plus, when you sat in it you could feel the springs. I ended up with a chair someone else was throwing away.

The computer that was in the room had no power cord, so I got one from IT, only to go back to my room and discover that the monitor had no power cord and the mouse was missing. I had to get those the next day, because IT had left for the day. The next day, I went to set it up, only to realize that my new desk was too small for the ginormous monitor, so I had to go on a treasure hunt for ANOTHER desk. I found one pretty quickly, but the way I set up my work area, my nice big cushiony chair was too big, so I traded someone else for a smaller, but still decent desk chair. He was really excited to get the one I'd had. He'd been coveting it. Heh.

I FINALLY got my computer set up, only to discover that the network card is bad. *sigh* And this AFTER I spent over a two hours deleting MSN Messenger (which had inherited some sort of bug and was asking me to sign in every thirty seconds even though I told it NO), deleting unwanted programs and documents, and changing backgrounds/screensavers/preferences to use less RAM. The idiot teacher who had the thing before me had fancy screensavers and crap on it. We're talking about a machine with a Pentium 4, 64 MB of RAM, and running Windows 98. No wonder the thing wouldn't work! With all my fiddling I was able to get the machine to boot up in five minutes, and if I could get a network card from IT, I'd be happy to keep it. There are people with machines in a LOT worse shape than that one.

Anyway, I still have to: print stuff to decorate my room (because I couldn't get to the network printer with no network card), write a rules poster (we're required to have our classroom rules posted and the one I did last week looks like crap), write two syllabi, enter my students into a program so I can keep records of attendance, write lesson plans, create sign in/sign out sheets for the hall pass (it's required and the school doesn't provide them), create a tardy sign in sheet (we're responsible for changing a student's attendance from absent to tardy in the computer by a certain time each day, and I'm not going to stop teaching to do it), track down floppy disks for my computer math class (because there are NO CD burners in the comp lab and since all the machines are Windows 98 they don't take flash drives), make a September AND October calendar of events to post in my classroom, figure out how close Star Office spreadsheets actually are to MS Office Excel (because we don't have liscensing rights to MS Office so I'm teaching computer math on Star Office, which I've never used), oh and finish cutting close to 400 tickets for a school dance (Isn't being an SGA co-sponsor grand? I already can't feel my hand cause I spent FOUR HOURS numbering and cutting tickets yesterday). Oh yeah, and I need to do laundry AND go grocery shopping so I have clothes to wear and food for lunch on Tuesday.

Yay, three day weekend?!

Oh, and I SERIOUSLY want to spend some time on my comms and fanfics, but it doesn't look like I'm going to get to. Which seriously sucks because I feel like I'm abandoning all my wonderful friends... and not helping at all at TWO RPGs I'm supposed to be modding. I haven't even signed in to one in TWO weeks. To be perfectly honest, though... that game annoys me, and I was trying to help a friend out, but... UGH. I may just talk to the Remus-mun and quit. I can't handle two RPGs, teaching, and two Blades comms, and the two "gasms" comms. Not that I do much at the last two. Still... yeah. Anyway...

As if this week wasn't hectic enough already (I didn't list HALF of what actually happened/went wrong) I broke my Guitar Hero controller. My wonderful hubby managed to fix it today, though.

Edit: Yay! The list is getting smaller. Maybe I WILL have some sort of weekend. I'm not going to get my hopes up, though.