when thursdays are like mondays

Ugh,....what a day. Woke up tired and lazy. Got to school and realized I'd left my jump disk in my computer, where my modified power points were saved. Granted, the power points were here too on cd, but not modified. So we start 1st period and the students have trouble with my note-taking little strategy. They're also not awake yet. Second period is Honor's and my plan was to show a paramecium under the flex cam (projects what's under the microscope on the board) but a.) I couldn't find the dumb buggers and b.) the flex cam didn't focus it enough to see it so my co-op teacher and i spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure all that out. Kinda frustrating. To make things worse, my stomach hasn't felt the best today either. We get to 5th period and one of the girls says that I don't seem to like teaching or really want to. Wake up Jen. I get on my soap box and apologize if I've come off rough and explain that today hasn't been a very good day but I also explained to them that if they want me to respect them, they need to respect me and that involves doing their homework and listening in class. I explain to them how frustrating it is when I prepare every thing and then they whine and complain and don't do any work. I think they understood and remarkably, things went really well in that class which is usually the worst. It's definitely one of those days where I'm ready to go home after the first period. Oh well,....tomorrow's Friday, thank God.