Back to Work

First day back. Lots to do, but I've been doing this long enough that I'm just not getting all stressed about it. It will all get done, sooner or later. I didn't bring anything home with me to work on tonight. I'll do some grocery shopping, laundry, and spend some time with Mark for Family Home Evening.

I remember the first few years of teaching, I would go into school a couple of weeks early to get started on lesson plans and room arrangement, etc. Now I don't even have my own room. Since I only teach one class a day, I always share with someone else. The last couple of years I've had a permanent sharing arrangement, and shared with an English teacher. Other years I've been in math, Spanish, whatever kind of classroom. This term I'll be in an English classroom, but I don't know about the rest of the year yet.

Mark and I are both doing training with colleagues on Wednesday, so we spent some time getting that ready to go today. I sorted some writing papers from the 8th grade teachers - papers written last spring by our incoming freshmen - I'll give them out to the English 9 teachers on Thursday. Tomorrow we will be in training all day - long day of sitting - not my favorite!

I went to Goodwill last week and found a cute new blouse to wear for the first day of school. I'll have to post a picture when we get there! We don't have students until a week from Wednesday because of the budget cuts, so that's probably adding to my laissez-faire attitude. That and the not-so-restful summer!

But I don't mean to complain. I AM grateful for such a wonderful job, and I'm sure I'll hit my stride soon.