Closing the year
Less than a week to go before summer begins, and I am feeling the pressure. Finals, parent phone calls, last-minute grading… it all adds up. I wonder how many teachers are like me– I take piles of work home, intent on grading, and it ends up on the couch unread. What is it about finding home that zaps my strength? Perhaps the adrenaline required to teach drains on my drive home. I remember working on my thesis (M.A. English), and learning that women seamstresses in the 1800s worked, during the height of the season, 20 hours a day. By the end of the day, they would faint from lack of stimulus. Finally, an occupation that employs people who work harder than educators do (that’s just a half joke).
Ah- the push to be positive… the student publication I advise has completed its literary magazine!!! Hooray!
Well, that’s all the typing I have energy for. See? Even my grammar is going.
Filed by rsmith at June 5th, 2007 under Uncategorized
