Meetings About Meetings

I forgot about a meeting I had this morning. They came and got me in my classroom. At the meeting, I got assigned to go to another meeting on curriculum. It’s an all-day Monday thing so I have to get a substitute. I’m not really looking forward to it. I’m all meetinged out. I have another one tomorrow morning.
The gang graffiti is starting up in my room again. I have a couple of suspects. I turned one girl in today because she had it on her binder. I had to clean it off the student tables. I’ve discovered that fingernail polish remover works well.
I’ve been having a lot of trouble with Allison lately. She’s always playing around in class. This afternoon on the way into the room, she asked if she could sit somewhere else in the room. OK, I thought, she’s starting to realize that some of the other students are a bad influence on her. That’s good. So I told her I’d let her try it. Later, I discovered that she’d written her name on the table with lip-gloss. Then, she started talking up a storm while I was giving directions. I told her to move back to her old seat. She refused. I told her that she could sit in her old seat or she could sit in the time-out room. She left. I’m going to make her clean the lip-gloss off the table tomorrow.