Today was: Really Good

Today was really good, yep. Unfortunately, it was REALLY long - I was at school until 5:30pm - and I'm kind of tired, pretty hungry, and I have a lot to do to prepare for tomorrow.

Did I mention that tomorrow is going to be my first "Solo Day"? Miles is going to some professional development seminar tomorrow - yep, we're having a sub. The sub is the one that we had in the room a few weeks ago when Miles was taking kids out to be assessed, and she's the one that the whole school calls first when a sub is needed. SO, when I saw her in the lunchroom last week I said, "So, we're going to be working together again next week. I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to try and do the whole day by myself..." She seemed to go for it, but we'll see how hands-off she can be when it comes down to it. I'm pretty confident that it will go well [Miles said that he knows I'll do a great job] since I've got the routine pretty well ingrained - I know how the structure of the day works, it's now just a matter of figuring out what SPECIFICALLY to say, and when to say it. What's worse is that Miles and I didn't get to talk much about tomorrow because he left early on Friday, we were pressed for time to get stuff ready for today this morning, and we had the IEP meeting [for the girl with autism] from 2:30-5:00pm [!!] after school today. BUT, my MAJOR worry is that the girl with autism will have a day like the last time there was a sub - if you don't remember what happened, I'll refresh your memory: IT WAS HER WORST DAY EVER. I've already talked to the Principal and he has said that if she is a problem at all that I can send her to his office [she HATES going there because he makes her sit in silence with the lights out - basically, without ANY sensory stimulation], which is reassuring.

Oh, did I mention that tomorrow is also a day that MY SUPERVISOR IS COMING TO OBSERVE ME? SO, there's even MORE pressure for the day to go well. SO, I'm going to cut things short here and get busy on getting things ready [like my sanity] for tomorrow.

OH, and if you live in California, GO OUT AND VOTE TOMORROW/TODAY (Tuesday, October 7th)!