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Published On: Dec 27, 2005 07:45 AM
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Published On: Dec 27, 2005 07:45 AM
tired.
Sometimes, I think of things in the day to write
about, but when I get a chance, I am just too tired.
Come, follow me around for a day.
I am up at 4:15 and try to clean up whatever I fell asleep in the middle of the night before.
I leave for school at 6:15-6:30. Thankfully it is a 10 minute drive.
Sometimes, I don't have to deal with anyone till students begin arriving at 7 or so, for make-ups and questions. Other times, the mentee is in my face, asking for things she should be doing by herself by now. She is always way too perky. At 6:30 AM, if you want something, ask quietly then disappear.
Two classes, both overfilled at 30, with only a 9 minute passing period consume me until 10:45. Lunchtime. Who eats at 10:45 am? Who eats? I am catching up on emails that i had no time to answer during the morning, gathering packets for absent students if my TA's did not, setting up for Physics class as it is held in another room and I can't leave expensive equipment there for someone else to watch, and maybe even going to the bathroom.
The afternoon begins at 11:19, with 2 more classes. 9-minute passing period. Last period leaves at 2:20.
Then, the afternoon shift comes in. Make-up tests, make-up labs, help sessions. I get all the mentee's make-up lab kids as she is in her own classroom doing whatever, then.
Most of the time they all leave by 4. Sometimes, I shoo them out earlier as
Mom has a dental appointment and I must leave to take her. I gather up all that I can carry and go home to work.
Other times, after they leave, I sort out my desk and stay at school to work until at least 5:30 but more often 7 or 8 or 9. There is always something more to take home and time to work there, until I crash on the sofa with ungraded lab books scattered about.. And it never all gets done, as I am a zombie by then. Never mind laundry and housework or working out.
This is not fun.
Next semester, numbers don't look so ominous and perhaps only 2 biology classes will be needed. This will depend of course on move-ins and who the mentee fails. I do not plan for anyone to fail, but a few will. The kid who has been in class for 4 days; and the girl who shows up 2 days a week will not make it. Perhaps a few others; but can add no more than 10 next term.
And that's why I am tired.
Come, follow me around for a day.
I am up at 4:15 and try to clean up whatever I fell asleep in the middle of the night before.
I leave for school at 6:15-6:30. Thankfully it is a 10 minute drive.
Sometimes, I don't have to deal with anyone till students begin arriving at 7 or so, for make-ups and questions. Other times, the mentee is in my face, asking for things she should be doing by herself by now. She is always way too perky. At 6:30 AM, if you want something, ask quietly then disappear.
Two classes, both overfilled at 30, with only a 9 minute passing period consume me until 10:45. Lunchtime. Who eats at 10:45 am? Who eats? I am catching up on emails that i had no time to answer during the morning, gathering packets for absent students if my TA's did not, setting up for Physics class as it is held in another room and I can't leave expensive equipment there for someone else to watch, and maybe even going to the bathroom.
The afternoon begins at 11:19, with 2 more classes. 9-minute passing period. Last period leaves at 2:20.
Then, the afternoon shift comes in. Make-up tests, make-up labs, help sessions. I get all the mentee's make-up lab kids as she is in her own classroom doing whatever, then.
Most of the time they all leave by 4. Sometimes, I shoo them out earlier as
Mom has a dental appointment and I must leave to take her. I gather up all that I can carry and go home to work.
Other times, after they leave, I sort out my desk and stay at school to work until at least 5:30 but more often 7 or 8 or 9. There is always something more to take home and time to work there, until I crash on the sofa with ungraded lab books scattered about.. And it never all gets done, as I am a zombie by then. Never mind laundry and housework or working out.
This is not fun.
Next semester, numbers don't look so ominous and perhaps only 2 biology classes will be needed. This will depend of course on move-ins and who the mentee fails. I do not plan for anyone to fail, but a few will. The kid who has been in class for 4 days; and the girl who shows up 2 days a week will not make it. Perhaps a few others; but can add no more than 10 next term.
And that's why I am tired.
Posted: Fri - October 7, 2005 at 09:26 AM