Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 36
Every year I manage to repress just how mentally and physically exhausting the first week is. It honestly feels like a blur.
Work Updates
Some good news — I did actually feel like the classes themselves went pretty smoothly — I’d prepped the right amount of content, and I’m mostly ready for the upcoming week (some slides I have to finish up). The only challenges really came from aministrative things — we have a new bell schedule, then we had a pep rally schedule, so that was a lot. I have a home room this year — and the new schedule split it into a 5 minute segment in the morning and 5 minutes at the end of the day. So that’s 5 minutes to take attendance, check IDs, dress code, and take phones for 30 seniors, half of whch I don’t know. And then study hall where kids don’t have to report on the first day if they have gold cards, even if you don’t have the gold card list yet — I’ve got 30 kids in the first study hall, then 27 in the other — again, half of which I didn’t know. I felt ridiculously overwhelmed the first few days.
It’s sort of under control now, I think, but it was kind of crazy for the worst part of the week to have zero to do with my actual classes, lol.
September Writing
Right now the plan is to update Flash as much as possible over the next two weeks because we have finally have a date for the bathroom remodel — they’re starting my parents’ house on Monday, Sep 8, and that means I’m going to be the week of Sep 22. I’m a little irritated — I was hoping it would be sooner. Because I’d taken Oct 3 as a personal day for the Taylor Swift album release, and I’m really hoping we’re done by then. I’m also really hoping we can make arrangements for the toilet to be the last thing ripped out because I only have one bathroom and no family lives closer than 10-15 minutes away. I feel like I’m going to be spending ninety percent of my time at my parents and commuting 25 minutes to work and to feed the cats. I’m happy to get my bathroom redone, but man do I wish it was any other time of the year.
Luckily for all of us, the Phillies have their last West coast trip next week with games starting at 10PM, so we’ll have some daily updates, at least until September 22. I’ll see what happens once the remodel gets underway. If they can leave the toilet in place for most of the time, we should be fine, but if not — well — we’ll see, lol.
Planning up todate on Tues/Thurs this week, so see you then.