What's Up?

What I've been doing:

• grading papers
• attending meetings
• writing lesson plans
• hanging up hall displays
• updating bulleting boards
• teaching procedures
• answering questions (TONS of them!)
• writing newsletters and returning parent phone calls and notes
• teaching
• building relationships
• assessing
• redirecting off task students
• helping students learn the art of organization
• managing recess duty
• giving advice ("Ms. Myers, nobody will be my friend this year because I was mean and rude last year.")
• working out (not nearly enough)
• fixing dinner at home
• picking up the house
• driving to and from work (and Wal-Mart!)
• attending church
• getting more involved at church
• catching up with friends and family on the phone since I don't get to see them anymore
• getting a hair cut
• being attacked at gas stations (see below picture)

What I have not been doing:

• eating lunch out with friends
• going to movies
• watching TV or reading (until tonight)
• seeing my family
• doing laundry
• sleeping in
• staying up late
• going to BUNKO
• blogging

I'm looking forward to October when my students will be trained, and I will have, hopefully, gotten into a routine!