To Air is human...

I think that my air conditioning is fixed. I think that because at around 10:40 this morning, I had stepped out of my room to welcome my new class in, and when I stepped back in, it was noticeably cooler. The A/C stopped about 5 minutes later and didn't come back on for the rest of the day.

Thankfully, it wasn't tremendously hot today, but it was stuffy, and pretty warm, and I would have appreciated having some cool air all day long. However, I'm not able to turn my own unit on and off. I'm at the mercy of the powers that be downtown, who sit in their offices and decide when to turn on my air and when to turn it off.

This really upset me today. Up until this point, the unit has been blowing stale air, so that tells me it hasn't been working. But now, I have proof that it's been fixed. So today, I basically received the message, "Your air conditioning is now working! BUT... we don't feel that you are worthy of actually receiving air conditioning."

Ugh.

HOT Carnival time

This week's Carnival of Education is up and running now at the Core Knowledge Blog. My Million Dollar Test post is there, along with lots and lots of other great ones.

So today was an absolutely gorgeous day outside. Sunny, something like 85 degrees, not too windy. Simply beautiful.

Inside the classroom, however, it was like a rainforest, hovering somewhere between 85 and 90 degrees. The air conditioning was doing a great job of. . .well, making noise, but certainly not cooling the room down. I suppose that's because the air conditioning hasn't officially been sanctioned by the good folks downtown. Hey, at least it wasn't blowing even hotter air -- it just wasn't blowing cooler air either.

We work in Texas, people!! Turn our A/C on!!!