Is it Tuesday Yet?

I guess I'm off to a good start this week because I feel like the week is almost over, but it's only Monday. Yesterday was daylight savings time....time. SO, we were all kind of discombobulated and tired at work. The first class, I read Thor with our kid who needs tons of remedial reading practice and helped another student make her safe driving/don't text and smoke, I mean text and drive poster, second class I helped my student work on designing a computer-generated helmet from a template with the teacher's video example, third class I helped a student with his eating disorder research project, then got a school burger and frosty fruit drink for lunch, came home to get a different student's birthday flowers I cut for her, and last class helped a student read his law assignment about unreliability of eyewitness testimony, and did half an hour of reading with my regular reading practice student. After school, I went to art club and there were only two kids there, and I just worked on my drawing example for the other art class as the teacher and we all talked. There was a kid from the yearbook there and he took my and the teacher's photo and statements about working with kids for the yearbook, along with some student work photos, so that was pretty cool. Then he referred to us as 'girls' and I was like, woah there Nelson, don't call women that, they will most likely give you a beat down and kick your ass. No, I didn't say all that, I said it was disrespectful or something and that it was better he hear it from me than someone who would get really upset about it. I could've explained in greater detail, but I didn't know that he needed a lecture on the nature of feminism and patronizing linguistics because he had apologized right away and thanked us for letting him know, rather than saying why? Who knows. I reacted instinctively in calling him out, because it so rubbed me the wrong way, and that's good that I spoke up. He was just a teenager though, and I would like to know if I would have reacted the same if he were a grown ass man. I certainly hope so!! But he would not be so easily excused or forgiven, and it would seem an adult would 'know better'!

OMG, I was doing laundry and transplanting plants from the little mini garden, when the phone rings interrupting a Crabfeast podcast with Kumail Nanjiani, and it says "Mexico". Who do I know there? It was Adrienne! Quelle Surprise! So we talked for a while and got cut off, and she called back and we talked more, then got cut off again, and she texted saying she was out of minutes. She is doing very well, living very simply and seems happy about it! I wish I could have her address, but she says there is no address because she is illegal and only rents a room. I hope that she is safe. She invited me to visit which was very kind of her.

Laundry all done, and Steve kindly (and generously) took me to Plaid and bought me a special drink and candy to take to school as semi-bribes/rewards for two kids I promised them to. Something something, watching new American Idol now, and last night, we saw the second season premiere of the indomitable Timeless, which was supposedly canceled but had a huge backlash from fans responding with online petitions (which I definitely remember signing too!). The police came to our apartments looking for someone upstairs and I was doing laundry and heard them knocking and that was about it...then later more knocking and loud voice of (neighbor?) calling her boyfriend's name. I wonder if our other neighbor called cops about them fighting or something, or if she called police because she was worried about her boyfriend...? Don't know. Hope they are okay. Peace.