I'm a 23 year old!

It is 3:30am and I am still up. It's like I'm a 23 year old or something!
(I went out for 11pm pizza and then saw Pirates 3 tonight with friends)

It took a 3 hour nap this afternoon to get ready for this night out, but still - it was nice to not be in bed at 10pm.

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Today I had a union meeting. I'm so glad I'm in the union, don't get me wrong - great pay, benefits, help, training, etc. ... but the meetings at my school are both unhelpful and stupid.
It's basically my union representative from my school standing on her soap box preaching to us. She thinks we need to take all rights allowed to us so seriously. That we are poor union members if we don't do everything we are permitted to do.
Example: We are legally allowed to file a greivance against the school if we request to teach a certain grade and we don't get that grade placement. Now, yes, I understand I am ALLOWED to file a greivance, but is that really in my BEST interest? Unless I have been applying year after year after year for a placement in Kindergarten and I keep getting place in fifth grade, then ok, I may do that AFTER I have talked to the Principal and the APs about why they are placing me there year after year. But if it is simply I asked for a placement once (even twice) and I didn't get it - wouldn't it be better overall for me to either a) deal with it or b) talk to the Principal or APs?
I think I would rather have a good relationship with my supervisors. Regardless of what grade I teach I have to work with them, be rated by them, and deal with them. Why would I TRY to make them upset?

I dunno, maybe that's just how I am - but my union rep seems to WANT to have conflict with the Admin at all times. She is always looking for ways to critique them or find ways that they aren't legally following all rules. At one of our staff meetings she yelled at the principal that we were to get all papers at the same time - right after the principal finished saying she hadn't gotten the copies back and that they would be in our mailboxes the next day. She wasn't trying to pull one over on us - she admitted she didn't have all the papers together for us and was fixing it. No reason to make an enemy.

Whatever.
bedtime.