I spoke too soon about the weather...

So it's been snowing since Monday and today the high was -2 with the wind chill. So much for a heat wave.

This has been a very long and very stressful week. I tried to be good about sleeping and getting work done ahead of time, but then I failed miserably. Monday I had grad school class that I felt unprepared for, but luckily no one in my class (literally, no one) had done the homework or any of the reading or had any idea what was going on. Teachers apparently make the worst students.

Tuesday I helped Andrea grade until 8:00 at night, which was exhausting and made me very glad to be caught up on grading. Then Wednesday somehow flew by and all of a sudden it's Thursday and I have a 4 page paper for grad school that I haven't started, 3 chapters to read, a department meeting, an observation by the Illinois Board of Education... I'm tired just thinking about it.

I've made it through (most of) Thursday... now all that's left is staff development tomorrow. That means no students, but it also means I have to present my (ridiculously awful) semester exam results in front of the whole school. Woo.

Thank goodness for weekends and new semesters.

Obligatory New Year's Post

So I've abandoned the blog a bit, which is kind of sad cause I had resolved to do a better job keeping up with it. Oh well, at least my other resolutions (reading more and taking less work home) have been going well so far.

Christmas break was a nice getaway from freezing and teaching and stressing, but it wasn't nearly as relaxing as I had hoped. Coming back was still hard, and I feel like the new year is going even worse with my students than last year.

But on a happier note, Chicago is lovely. It's been in the high 30's-low 40's all weekend (heat wave!) and I for once managed to enjoy the weekend. North side bar-hopping, turtle races, random limo rides... it made me miss actually having a social life outside of watching Sex & the City with the roomies and occasional TFA gatherings. And, as a nice bonus, my planning is done up through Presidents' Day weekend. In just 17 days I'll be on a plane to Utah for a nice 5 day weekend of snowboarding and not thinking about teaching. In the meantime, I'm going to try to make it through another week without the stress and the students and the grad school and the work kill me.