Teaching – Week, I Forget

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A Busy Month

September was a busy month for me. Prior to getting the teaching position I had already planned the writers conference, a trip to Atlanta and attending a UT football game. There was also an unexpected trip back home to Virginia in there as well. Then I was offered the chance to teach and my September went from being full to overloaded.

Being a first year teacher there has been a lot I have had to learn. When to grade, when to make assignments due, what those assignments are, planning lessons. With September having been previously planned I have had to make time to do those things. I have spent lunches planning lessons, nights and weekends going over the assignments, grading and the like. It has been a constant, non-stop deluge of activities. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dread lesson planning, grading or teaching, I just hadn’t originally  planned ahead to include the time needed. Because of that I have been going non-stop for quite a while and the busyness of it all finally caught up to me.

A Sleeping Beauty Kind of Sleep

I don’t take naps. The few times I have I woke up feeling more tired, so strike one. I also don’t take them because as long as there is daylight I could be doing. Even if that something is as mindless as watching tv I still feel like I am doing something. I also like being awake in case I should get it in my head to do this or that, a this or that that could be productive. Naps, I feel, can hinder my living, however dramatic that may sound. So when I came home one day last week and took a nap I knew I was tired.

I also don’t go to sleep real early. I tend to go to sleep between 11:30-12:00 and get up around 6:15. It’s just the pattern I have had for a long while and something my body is used to. So when on the same day I took a nap I went to bed at 9:00 and didn’t wake up until 7:00 the next morning I knew I was extremely tired. That had to be the longest sleep I have had in a long time. It was that long, Sleeping Beauty kind of sleep. And it was much, much needed and appreciated.

With that long sleep I have been rejuvenated. I don’t feel that same tiredness that would cause me to not only take a nap but to go to bed early. It also helps that October is much less busy than was September. I am looking forward to getting back to writing these posts again, looking forward to having the time to work on my kid’s stories and everything else in between. And now that I am finding a groove with teaching I should have the energy to do all that, and maybe more. Until next time, get out there and Get to It!

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