On the edge of disaster or success

A classroom of twenty-nine squirrelly, talkative fifth graders, nine substitutes in the last week and a half, no lesson plans for the same length of time nor any real record of what the kids have learned all year long or how they've done with such learning, a teacher who has just been diagnosed with cancer (a teacher I know quite well since I volunteered in her classroom when I first moved here), kids who don’t know yet but feel something is wrong and, finally, someone scheduled to sub for the whole week to try to give the room some kind of stability- equals an EXHAUSTED and STRESSED ME!! This does enable me for a possible long term substitute position and, who knows, possibly a full time job next year. Good news- the position is at Martha Baker’s school and I would love to work there full time. She’s treating me like I already have a position at the school with trainings every free moment I have!! Thus, I am working my heart out to show everyone and their pet rock I can DO this job, in fact, I hope they suddenly can’t do without me!!!?! Here’s dreaming.