01 February 2005
posted by j at 2/01/2005 03:32:00 PM

Suffered an anxiety attack last night...really ruined my sleep. I'm the kind of sleeper ppl would want in their houses...the perfect watchdog. Super-lightsleeper. Keep telling fellow mission-trippers that one day i will save them from something! So when things weigh on my mind or if i'm anxious abt the next day's activities i'll get very very bad sleep..wld keep dreaming abt weird stuff vaguely related to the cause of anxiety.

My form class is the last express class in the level. They are real noisemakers and can get really out of hand. Feel responsible for them, at least to make sure they dun get worse in behaviour. So last fri i decided to punish them by telling them they'd have to stay back till 6 plus on mon. (They have to stay till 4 anyways for a test). The unexpected happened. Got injured in the eye and needed to see the doc. At the same time, i din want to cancel the punishment because then they'd think i dun carry out my word.. So i went to the Discipline Master and told him to take charge of releasing them when he wanted. He agreed readily and i went off after settling things with him.

Lo and behold...got a message from a colleague last nite saying that the vp was agitatedly looking for me yest afternoon, saying something like "group of students..waiting in classroom....parents outside...complaining..." I tell u i almost died from shock! And by then it was too late to call anyone to rectify anything. Had bad bad sleep..

Prayed but still felt some apprehension coming to school today. Din want to get defensive and seem like i'm shirking responsibility. Yet, at the same time, i did feel that i wasn't at fault. BEST thing is the DM not ard today lor!

But thank God, all turned out ok. The vp was reasonably calm after a night's rest. I explained things to him and it seems he knew who was responsible. I went back to class and explained things to my class, who seemed pretty cool abt it. All they asked was, "Cher, how come the DM can forget us har??" To which i had no reply..