Day 50...Friday Oct. 2nd

It's been about 5 days since I've last blogged and believe me when I say, I've got good reason. As I last blogged, I was fighting off a sickness yet again. At that point, my fever had broke and I was feeling better. Well...on Friday, the sickness took a new turn. Everything went straight to my sinuses. My nose started to run like crazy and I had a terrible dry cough.

Of course, being the stubborn person that I am, I went into work on Friday thinking I would be able to handle it just fine. I felt guilty for taking nearly the whole week off because of my fever, I didn't want to miss another day. So I bundled myself up and dredged into work. It was an unusual day. It was an "In service" day at MCH meaning, all lead teachers were off in meetings all day, and all assistant staff remained at the school to work with extended day students only. Since my class only has one extended day student, he was joined in with the class next door. Because my one student was off in the neighboring class, I worked more as a float staff all day, helping out where ever I was needed.

I spent a good portion of the day cleaning up my classroom. Since I had been out nearly all week, the class had become a bit of a mess without me being there to help keep up on the cleaning. All around the classroom, each broken work and messy shelf told a story of the struggles my lead must have been dealing with all week.

It was about an hour before I got off when my boss came to check in on me. She could see that I was still not feeling good and that my energy was completely tapped out. So, since the ratio of students to teachers had dropped, they could afford to let a staff member go home early (since it was mostly a day for meetings, the majority of the staff had already gone home early, including all the lead teachers). I was elected to go home due to my pale face and pained look. Not to mention I still sounded completely stuffed up. So I bummed a ride home from another co-worker who was heading out and hopped right in to bed.

Even with a shorter day, it felt long. With an aching body and a stuffed up head, Friday came to end.

There ain't no rest for Pickle, money don't grow on trees,

I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, there ain't nothing in this world for free.

I know I can't slow down, I can't hold back though you know I wish I could,

Oh no there ain't no rest for Pickle, until we close our eyes for good.