October Blues

Everyone warned us that October would be tough. They weren't kidding. I don't know the exact reasons as to why October is so difficult but I thought of a few that may be adding to our stressful lives...

- ACP Classes ...For the month of October we have one every monday 530-830

-No Holidays ...September we only had 2 five day weeks, October is our first full month

-The Honeymoon is over...We are not the young excited new teachers anymore... we're tired and stressed

-It's football season...this is a stretch, but my weekends are literally dedicated to watching football, all day Saturday- college, (I watched from 11-1 yesterday), and all day Sunday nfl (from 12-10 usually)... I should be planning but I've got a lot of football to watch :)

The bright side- there's only one more week in October, and I can't help but think that this month has gone fairly fast. It probably helps that it still feels like it's summer here :)

The days fly by when you're looking back at them, but when you're living them, they seem to drag on. This is not your average 9-5 job, not by a long shot. This is a 24/7 job. When we're not actually teaching, we are either planning to teach, thinking about teaching, talking about teaching, or dreaming about teaching. Even as I'm sitting here watching the Bears game, I'm planning for the next week/blogging about it.

This week is the last week of Deady football which is pretty bittersweet. I'm sad that it's going to be over because I look forward to it everyday, but it's going to be nice to have those extra two-three hours every night. I'm also looking forward to a conference I'm going to in Corpus Christi Nov. 15th and 16th and going home for Thanksgiving. It's going to be really nice to be able to re-energize and get back to finish off the semester before Xmas break.

It's almost half time which is pretty much the only time I get any work done, so I'm off to do that.

Until next time,

Caroline