Since you shared with me the misery that is your day, I thought I would share with you the misery that is my day also. It's so sad that my life hasn't panned out to be the rock and roll crash and burn cool fest I thought it would be.
4:48 Hit snooze button exactly three times thereby getting out of bed at precisely 5:15. (Yes, I am anal retentive.)
5:15-5:30 Do all those little things I have to do (like brush teeth and put on clothes) before I can leave the house
5:30 Get in car and drive to gym while listening to motivating music, usually the Pixies
5:45 Arrive at gym and put crap in locker
5:50-7:15 Work out
7:15-7:45 Shower and get ready for work. (Yes, I do this at the gym, despite my terrible OCD)
7:45 Get in car and drive to work while listening to NPR
7:55 Arrive at work, sit in car and collect thoughts, consider going home and going back to bed, walk into school
8:10 Morning duty; this is the time that I stand in the hallway, coffee cup and Luna Bar in hand, nodding at all the students as they come in
8:25 This is the official start of the school day; my advisory class comes in and asks me ridiculous questions like, "Can I call you mom?" and "Why don't you have any kids?"
9:00-10:30 A Days: Planning period (i.e. surf the net) B Days: Humanities Class (teach exciting things such as Shakespeare and art history)
10:35-12:05 A Days: Inclusion support in 6th grade social studies class...honk shoo B Days: Language Arts Learning Lab (i.e. surf the net)
12:10-2:15 A Days: First half of time spent doing Inclusion support in 7th grade math, lunch, then end period doing Inclusion support in 6th grade science B Day: Planning period (see above)
2:20-3:50 A Days: First half of time spent doing Inclusion support in 6th grade math; second half of class spent doing support in 7th grade social studies B Days: first half spent doing Inclusion support in 6th grade science; second half doing support in 7th grade Science
3:50 Thank the powers that be that I survived another one
There are the two days a week that I get to do Homework Help (aka Homework Hell) until 5:30 AND always the Monday afternoon faculty meeting that last until 6:30!
I'm a regular little rock star!
Man, Terps, we're pretty lame. No wonder we have such fantastic fantasy lives!
3 comments:
Oh my! I guess my union must rock. I start at 8:20, and am done at 3:05. I do some extra nonsense after school 2 days a week until 5, but I get $36 an hour for that. I do envy both your prep schedules, though. I am a "math coach" in the morning - I mentor/coach other math teachers. Then, due to my bitchy nature, I have a lunch detention with some 5th graders. I make them do math in silence. If nothing else, they'll pass the state exam. I teach science and math to an 8th grade inclusion class, with only 3 preps a week. Ugh...
Wait.. did you say.. 4:48? AM? good christ almighty. No wonder you are half crazy.
Seriously, Cary. Terps is just one of the most driven people I know. She has a will of solid steel. If it were me, it'd be, "Yeah, I'm gonna go to the gym in the mornings before work." The first time the alarm went off at 4:48, I would re-think the whole plan and decide I was crazy for thinking that it would be a good idea. I would then reset the alarm, and sleep until a non-god-forsaken hour.
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