hard afternoon

this morning was good- i let wombat do her first lead-dragging run with me at a park. zac's been doing for a week or so. he just leaves the lead attached so its dragging behind her (and the little plastic container full of spare poo bags on the end bounces up and hits her in the bum repeatedly). she did soooooo well!!! she came to me and sat EVERY time i called her. i just had to keep watching the 3 entrances to the oval to make sure no other dogs were around. i was VERY proud of her.
everything changed when i got to work though. i was greeted by the director who told me she'd had a run-in with a parent-- the director was still quite upset over the issue. when i went into the room i was greeted by 2 more staff who also were yelled at by the parent over other issues....and everyone was very tense about the situation. so that started things off on the wrong foot. after rest time some of the kids started going crazy (a couple of them just running around the room, not actually doing anything-- we don't let them do that inside, a couple boys repeatedly provoking a girl cuz they know she'll react with high pitched whines and cries.....it was horrible) so we decided to go outside. the kids who wanted to run could run, and the rest of them could just spread out and be far away from each other. didn't work as well as planned. the running kids would not stay in the running areas (so they don't fall on the pavement and hurt themselves, which happens often) and the other kids wouldn't quit provoking each other. we ended up with one kid getting shoved hard by another and crying and then 10 min later he got hit in the head with a hard object (he wasn't even the intended target, he just happened to be in between the thrower and her target person-- the kids weren't handling their anger etc. to well at this point in the day and were forgetting to "use their words" and listen to their friends when they ask them to stop doing something). oh, and then on the way home a guy came VERY close (like less than 1m away) to hitting me in a round about while i was on my bike with my bright lights flashing, my yellow safety vest with reflectors on and a few street lights over me (i think he just blindly followed the 2 cars infornt of him into the round about without looking to his right for oncomming traffic already in the round about). its friday though!!! i don't have to deal with work again until monday (and hopefully then we'll have a beautiful afternoon like we did yesterday even though we were stuck inside with severe storm warnings all afternoon) and we've got our new computer monitor so i can finally see the colours properly again and edit some photos! sorry for the long rant. needed to get it out of my system.