the positive & negative

so it's one of THOSE fridays, again. spelling test day.
except that it wasn't. it was yesterday. i missed it.

i know i wrote the latest schedule down right. i know i heard correctly when she said that they had reading festival, but that we'd work the test in anyway. i know i never saw the sheet she waved in front of my face with the dates of march 9 and march 22. the one that i saw showed march 8 (which was a 1/2 day, no school on march 9), and march 23. i wrote it down. i checked before i wrote it. i checked again after i wrote it. i checked again before i pitched the paper. the date was easy. it's mom's birthday.

but she told me....

i'm scared of the red ink!

i have to go to the school today and give a spelling test. that's easy enough, as long as i can keep the little buggers calm & quiet through the process.

...but I have to see "the sarge".

(that's the name we've given this year's 3rd grade teacher. it fits beautifully.)

why am i scared? because i accidentally blew off the last test and got a little red ink nasty gram from her that wasn't really for me specifically (but it applied to me) about letting her know if we can't make it.

i thought they outlawed teachers using red ink?