How hard is it to reply to a simple facebook invitation?  I mean, really.  Can you attend? Great, then you reply “yes!”.  Can’t make it? Well, that stinks, but you say “nope”.

It’s frustrating when people choose “maybe”.  You might as well just say that you’re not coming and not take the wussie way out of it.  But what really gets me is the total lack of any kind of response.  Come on.  You’re my friend.  I can tell that you’ve been posting on facebook since I’ve invited you to my event (in this case, my 25th birthday), so no, your phone and/or laptop is not broken.  You’ve managed to log in somehow, AND I’m willing to bet you’ve seen that little red indicator informing you of something important.  

I get it, sometimes you want to check what’s going on that night.  You’re not sure if you have plans with the boyfriend, family, or other friends, so you wait a day or two to confirm… but that’s the thing, confirm.

Yes, I’m ranting.  I’m getting frustrated with a handful of people in my life. 

One of my students interviewing me for the school newspaper.  

The P.E. teachers told the third graders (who were waiting outside on the blacktop for their teachers to come pick them up) to cheer whenever the door opened.  This caused 80 third graders to cheer, clap, wave their arms, when I walked through the door to come outside.

To be fair, I thought they were cheering for me because I was the first teacher to pick up a class—the teachers were a couple minutes late because we were in a meeting—but it felt pretty great regardless.