I would just like to say that my trip to school was not fruitful, in any way, and only made me even more pissed off than I was. They wax and seal the floors each summer, and my room was cleared out by June 18th (two days after kids left) to be done. It is still. Not. Done. I can’t even get to my desk, as it’s in a pile in the other half of the room. (I have a double room, a wall was taken out a few years ago.) SO, my room isn’t done, and by virtue of that, my coteacher’s room isn’t either, because it’s filled with ALL of our crap, not just half. Also, there’s been a gap in the floor tiles since the wall was taken out, 4 years ago, and they never retiled it. It’s about four inches wide, by what, 12 feet? Not a big deal, especially after having it just be there for years. This summer, they decided to fill it. With Bondo. Not the TILES that match and have been in the corner forEVER, but with BONDO. My room lookslike a HazMat site. There is a giant sheet of plastic covering the hole, but there is a fine white dust on the stuff in my coteacher’s half, as well as the thick sheet of dust on my side. I went in for five minutes, tops, and the fumes caused an asthma attack. And I rarely have asthma attacks.

All that is on top of lots of other stupid political and parent-fueled crap that my program has to deal with (ie, “just accept”) and it all just makes me feel reallllly good about my decision to refocus my energy after a baby comes. Honestly, even if I’m not pregnant in a year, I think I’ll be refocussing.

In other, totally awesome news, Dave has torn out the Horrible Pink Carpet and is currently laying vinyl tile. We went big, and got the .98/sq ft tile, in a whitish grayish rock-look type. It’s more durable and stiffer than the cheapy stuff that curls up, so I think it would look good. It has me wanting to do the rest piece by piece now, get a new vanity and sink top & fixtures… paint over the tile, or SOMETHING, replace the weird medicine cabinet…. It will all happen eventually.

Maybe I should refocus to a job at Home Depot.