Why don't you go get another facial piercing!

That was the comeback I thought of an hour later.

And thank God for that. Because going there would have been bad.

I had the morning from hell today. It's totally my decision to work with teenagers and even more my decision to work with the hardest bunch of them all. The so-called "at-risk" ones. Which in layman's (sp?) terms means "little fuckers no one else wants to work with". So technically, I shouldn't complain. And I'm not. But today REALLY tested my whole "career decision".

There was a group of particularly lazy students just sitting outside our office this morning and I decided this was the morning (hell! the week!) that I would actually say something instead of "let it slide". The only problem is that one in particular MUST have the last word. Which, I'm sad to say, so do I. And while I am working on the whole "letting it go" philosophy, I am still years away from actually accomplishing it. Dude, I hope I don't fuck up my own kids!

I digress. Yeah. It got bad. I mean, yelling wasn't involved but at one point I did get a "why don't you go watch a Spurs game or something". Which really isn't bad. I mean, he coulda called me all sortsa pet names, like "bitch", "asshole", etc., but no, he decided to just go with the Spurs thing. And had I not been so upset at the time, I might have actually had a comeback other than "are you seriously trying to insult me with that?". But that's a bonus because a comeback would have been worse. It doesn't happen very often but when one of my monsters does manage to push my buttons they do a damn good job of it. This time I got so upset afterwards that I had to leave. I waited about 10 minutes. Grabbed my purse and took off. I didn't want to leave (mostly because they were still just sitting there doing jackshit), but I also didn't want them to see me upset (i.e. crying) either. All in all, the whole situation sucked (except the part where I got to see Friday for lunch).

Now I am even MORE glad that Spring Break is almost here. So even though I will still have to work a few days of it, there will not be any students around. Which at this point, is all the break I need.