She sat in my room after an afternoon meeting and wanted to talk about my faults.  I let her talk.  What was I supposed to do?  Tell her to leave my room again?  I wanted to go home, but I stayed.

She talked almost non-stop (she hates being interrupted and she talks without stopping) about all the things about me she doesn't like. 

   1.  She doesn't like when I am loud.  That is my natural voice.  It just comes out loud.  She said it scares her.  That's too bad.  I can't change my voice.

   2.  She doesn't like when I say things and they are formed in a demanding (dictating) way.  Again, it is my natural way.  I don't expect her to be scared.  I expect her to be a teacher.  I scare her?  She scares the heck out of me.  She is phycho.

   3.  She doesn't like me making decisions without "talking" it over with the team.  Too bad.  I am the team leader and I expect my team to speak up if they object to something.  I certainly do.

   4.  She doesn't like the status quo.  She wants to be allowed to lead.  OMG!  She is a first year teacher.  I am not going to let her lead the team.  Again, she is a psycho.

   5.  She repeated these complaints over and over for a half an hour. 

   6.  She said I say things and forget I said them.  I asked for explanation and she didn't have one.  True, I forget things.  I have a lot of things on my plate.  I write everything I can in my lesson plans so I won't forget.  She doesn't.  Her memory is perfect and she remembers everything everyone said forever.  And she told me that over and over.  I told her a lot of things aren't worth remembering.  For example, I can forget that she keeps calling me a dictator if she would just quit calling me that.

   7.  She wants our lesson planning session to be a "***" session.  She wants to "talk" about all the things we should be doing and aren't.  It is called a lesson planning session for a good reason.  We are supposed to be planning lessons.  I don't want to have gripe sessions because I like the status quo.  I was about to have the best year in a long time and she is ruining it for me.

   8.  She doesn't like all the interruptions, changes, and announcements.  Am I in charge of that?  I have learned to go with the flow.  She needs to do the same.

My blood pressure was at it's best in years and now it is going back up.  I don't know if I can stand having her around for the rest of the year.  She is driving me nuts.  If I wanted to be criticized all the time, I would have stayed married.  He was good at it too.  In fact, come to think of it, she reminds me a lot of my ex.  Everyone is against her.  Everyone is out to get her.  She is right and we are wrong.  MY!  My! My!  Me! Me! Me!  Thirty minutes of it.  I almost choked on my own tongue trying not to say what I really though.  I made it.  I left school very late but I didn't blow a gasket.  But, My blood pressure is up tonight.