I enjoy doing my laundry at the nearby (nearby as in a 5 minute car ride) 24 hour laundromat late at night. I've probably mentioned this before. I especially like to do this when there are hardly any people. And with B with me. Bah. He's not here tonite. I'm too broke to go out anyway, so I'm psyching my self up to go by myself. Argh.It's not so much that I'm embarrassed to go do my laundry by myself on a Saturday night. I'm mean who cares what people think? Ok, well i do on occasion - but this is not one of those times. I'm so used to B going with me. Regardless of the day of the week, or time of the day. Sometimes I realize how too dependent I am on B. It annoys the hell out of me. Grrr.
on another completely unrelated note,
Oh lemme tell you! I had the best time last Friday (even though I had to be up at 6am to get to the school before 9am) chaperoning my friend C's 2nd grade class (yes, 6 and 7 year olds) on their trip to Lincoln Center. We took the train. What an adventure in itself! A bunch of parents showed up to chaperone her class so I was only assigned 3 kids to look after. Soooo cute. And loud. Even though half of them fell asleep during the classical music concert. LOL. This one little girl, Amber, really got to me. She was the sweetest girl. She seemed extremely shy and quiet at first but by the end of the day, I couldn't get her to stop talking and asking questions! My friend C told me that Amber hardly warms up to anybody so I felt really good that I was able to connect with her. She always wanted to hold my hand. Awww. It turned out Amber was one of those kids in class that nobody really want to hang out with. Poor girl. Literally. C said she's quite neglected by her parents. On some of the coldest days of the year, the girl came in with no socks. Also, I think in September, she had gotten her hair braided and they weren't cleaned or removed even when stuff started to get stuck to her hair. Worst of all, C said on time she said she wished she wasn't black. My God, she's only 6! She seemed smart, but she was the only one in the class to fail the spelling test. C gave them a spelling test and I got to grade them afterwards. I suspect Amber has a learning disability because the words she got wrong, she actually spelled correctly, but some letters were backwards. This might have been acceptable at the beginning of the year since other kids did it too, but she was the only one that had not "grown out of it." I hope she gets assistance with that soon. C said she was getting tested for it. She also said I would get over the "awww, they're so cute phase" when I had my own class. Hehe.
