Friday.

Current Mood: sick
Listening to: Cold as Ice by Foreigner

I feely really really sick... I think I finally lost my voice... my throat hurts like hell... I'm burning up with fever... My cough is getting much worse... I'm sweating like a pig... My nose is stuffed... got a sinus headache and my body aches horribly... I think I'm coming down with a serious bronquitis...

Yesterday, I shouldn't have gone to teach until late at night... Today, I shouldn't have gone to teach either... but cancelling class at the last minute is such a hassle... besides, I'm better off teaching than here...

I just want to be hugged, kissed, being told nice things... get taken care of... get babied a little bit...

But I get none of that... Instead, I get to make dinner for baby cause the wife "forgot"... and of course... it is my fault for teaching at night... and for having to give a test tomorrow... and graduation duties tomorrow night... blah!... urgh!!! I'm in no mood for fighting tonight... yes... life's unfair... I'm the jerk... I'm always the jerk...

Shit... I'm really tired... and I don't want to write anymore...

SATURDAY.

Current Mood: sleepy, hungry
Listening to: Chicago.

9:30 - Woke up, got out of bed, jumped on the shower, got dressed... turned on PC, fetched the car, rummaged for the sample cover page of the test I was supposed to give at 11:30, found the cover page, went back to the house, sat at PC, typed and printed cover page, turned off PC.

10:00 - Got on car, drove to UCR...

10:30 - Arrived at UCR, made photocopies of test, sent first text message... no answer... went for obligatory Sweet Croissant and Chocolate Milk at "La Canelita"... gotta leave my mark... went by a bookstore.. got inside and bought "Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince"... the money for it had come as a gift the day before... sent second text message... no answer...

11:00 - arrived at UIA... parked... got registered... found my room... checked to see if my text messages had been replied yet... they hadn't...

Almost none of my students were there yet... and a student from my other course popped in to say hi... we have been antagonists all quarter long... always bickering and pettifoggering... so I was kind of surprised to see her there... "I saw you come in and just wanted to say hi"... she said in the sweetest voice she could produce... she was not particularly pretty at all... in fact, she is kind of tomboyish and chubby... but she was wearing a pink shirt, a denim mini-skirt and tennis shoes with no socks... and she really looked cute and hot... great pair of legs she's got on her... and she was flirty... stroking her hair, turning around, playing with her skirt... "I got a linguistics test down the hall... Hey teach... wanna get some coffee after the test?"... tempting... I thought to myself... but that would be irresponsible of me in soooo many levels... "Sorry... no can do... I have previous engagement..."... "OK, then... maybe in another moment"... "Yeah... maybe"... and she left..

11:30 - Test time!... our room overlooks the sidestreet where some cars are parked... and an alarm gets off... and does not seem to stop... all students look at me pleading for help... I only smile and tell them to do the best they can...

12:00 - Send third text message... the auditor comes by and I complain about the alarm... which is still going strong... he says that since it's a car parked on a public street, there is nothing he can do...

12:30 - Alarm... headache... no reply to text messages... damn!

1:00 - Alarm... alarm... headache... headache... thunder... lightning... a storm is moving in... still no answer... shit!

1:30 - Still have a few students left... the alarm goes on and on... my head is about to explode... I tried to read or to do something else... maybe get distracted... but it just made my headache bigger... no answer... why is there no answer?...

2:00 - Just one meathead left... the alarm is still going... I can't take it no more... I'm ready to take a chair and smash it on meathead's head... and rape the next door teacher... who's hot... and burn the building... and smash the fuckin' phone on the wall 'cause no one replied to my fuckin' messages... and then.... .... .... .... silence... the car battery finally died... the sound is gone... the headache lingers on...

2:25 - Finally got out of there... hungry, tired, angry... turned off phone... gave up on anyone answering...

At night... I'm laying on bed trying to watch "The War of the Worlds" on DVD - don't ask - when my son runs through the room butt naked... the wife, who is next to me, asks him... "what's that?"... then he stops short... looks at her thoughtfully... and says "It's a pee-pee, mom"... and dashes out of the room... 10 points!!!