Right now I just feel like I am getting kicked in the hind end more than usual, which partly explains for my lack of writing lately.

Christmas break came and went and although I had an extended weekend out of it I was busier during those two weeks than I normally am while working full-time.  I was looking forward to heading back to work and slowing down, yes slowing down.  Until everything threw up all over me.
The first week back at school was your typical first week..getting the kids back on task, while simulaneously trying to move forward at break neck speed.  This year however, I had to move faster than normal because I voluntarily joined a joint venture our board is doing and had to get a writing sample taught and written in eight days.  Doesn’t sound too hard does it?  Well…

The second week back (last week) was just plain silly.  I’m out of the classroom the first 100 minutes a week 4 days a week and an additional 30-50 minutes two of those days.  Add on top of that the fact that Monday afternoon I had a follow-up meeting all afternoon (planning for a supply is hell and I’d rather be sick at school, than plan for someone else, but that wasn’t an option here).  Tuesday, I was out again in the afternoon, doing a pre-visit meeting.  And just to make matter even better, I was at school at all on Friday.  I had a day long meeting revolving around the 8-day lesson mentioned above.  I give my supply teacher credit, he did a great job given that a) it was the second week back; b) he is a brand. new. teacher. and c) I wasn’t there.  Most/many students got the work done that was required so I’ll take what I can get.

My Friday meeting was great!  I left it feeling energized and ready to tackle anything.  Oh how foolish I am!

Monday, well I made it through that day, although I did wreck my knee again.  How you ask?  By jogging (and that’s putting it much fast that I probably was moving) from my classroom to another one…two doors down.  I don’t know what I did, but moving is ridiculously painful and I am not happy about it.  I seem to just get the knee better and then do something stupid, like walk.  I probably should add here that my class cheered when they found out that not only did they have me the “whole” day (the part I am there anyway) but also, I was only away one day this week.  Talk about making your feel really great about what you do, these guys definitely made up for all the rest of the stuff going on.
Today/Tuesday however, well, it hurt my ass again.  HUGE! I had a meeting this morning that I felt could have killed me. It didn’t help that my knee was in such pain I didn’t know what was worse/better standing or sitting.  The meeting, well, it went.  That’s about what I can say about most of it.  I’d go into details, but really it would just be torture for your eyes and brain and I have more compassion than that.  Let’s just say that I avoided the staff room as much as possible for fear of what I might say and was VERY glad to be back in my classroom for the afternoon.

And, it doesn’t stop there…tomorrow is the day that I am out of the class for the entire day, AGAIN!  If you have lost count, that’s the equivalent of 3 full days out of 8.  That’s just plain nuts.

On a good note…I’m not out at all for the next two weeks, but don’t even get me started about the week after that.

And if anything doesn’t make sense give me a break, look what I’ve been up to.

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