Ugh. So stressed.

Emmett's got a huge term-long project (called iSearch) due this week. It's like the 8th graders dissertation. And every time I asked him about it this weekend he fluffed me off. "I did all my home work."

"What about the iSearch?"
"I got an extension."
"?!"

So I talk about it with EM this morning and she's furious with me because he didn't get ten pages of it done this weekend. The whole thing needs to be in final form by Thursday and it's got to be about 40+ pages long.

Emmett's got maybe 12 pages done and they're not all typed up and finished.

EM's extra pissed because she's getting surgery this weekend to fuse two of her vertabrae, she's been in a lot of pain and can't really deal with this.

So, I fucked up by thinking we had another week to do this. But it's been an extremely screwed up couple of weeks for me with the car getting the boot, and job-hunting and meeting writing deadlines, and preparing for the Tom Waits bus tour this weekend, and Emmett's baseball/krav/tutoring schedule. It's just been a fucked up whirl of things that require immediate attention.

So. Emmett won't even be going to school tomorrow. He's staying home with me and working on it all day. He's missing a baseball game on Tuesday night too.

Basically I will be spending the week working with him on this paper, typing it up and keeping him on task.

You guys, I HATE it when anyone tries to talk to me when I am in a stall. I do not want to have a conversation over the sound of biological functions. LEAVE ME ALONE. Thankfully I've only had to really say "can we talk about this later, when we're not in the bathroom?" a couple of times.

In the future ALL restaurants will be Taco Bell!

But do you know the secret of the three seashells?

Pet peeve at work? People who refuse to do their job. Full stop. And they don't get fired.

Ugh, good luck Hec, doesn't sound like fun. Sorry about all the stress.

What is your current stupid pet peeve about your job?

The "Language" selection from the "Tools" menu in Word is missing. Seriously. It was there last week, and now it's not. I can provide a screenshot.

What is your current stupid pet peeve about your job?

At the moment, the fact that I have to go back to it tomorrow if I want them to keep paying me. Seriously, I have gotten so much done over this 4-day weekend. But not getting paychecks would interfere with my future plans, so back I go.

So. Emmett won't even be going to school tomorrow. He's staying home with me and working on it all day. He's missing a baseball game on Tuesday night too.

My thinking is that this needs to ruin Emmett's good times a bit longer than just missing one baseball game? Otherwise you're maybe setting him up for a bit of "my lack of planning becomes your emergency and it's fine."

My goodness, that sounds awful, Hec.

I am also amazed that a) I swear my mother never checked with me about my homework (except band, because she had to sign that I practiced)and b) I always turned everything in on time and c) that seems like a HUGE project for 8th grade. The biggest thing I did for eighth grade was a 10 page handwritten paper on Rabies!

Basically I will be spending the week working with him on this paper, typing it up and keeping him on task.

School is so much more work from the parent side of things than it ever was for me when I was in school.

c) that seems like a HUGE project for 8th grade.

Yes, this. My kids haven't had any projects this involved, including my HS senior.