The running theme of my past few posts have been how long my weeks are, and this one was no exception. I worked another 51 hours this week between the 3 jobs. It was stressful and tiring and at a few points I honestly felt like I was going to burst.
Grad class is starting to add stress to my life. There is one month left, but because of spring break and my professor being gone the week after that we only have 2 more classes, and he just assigned the details of our huge project which will be what our whole grade is based on. Yep, that'll be great! I'm hoping to get as much done over spring break before I leave for vacation as possible but I'm not sure how much that will really be.
All three jobs are going well overall. School is typical. Depending on the kids moods and how they are acting the day can go fine or I can be annoyed from the get go. It all depends. Things at Sylvan centers are going well. Things at the city school have calmed down since I switched groups with the other teacher. It's obvious that even the younger kids are trying to pull things over on me but they are easier to handle. It was a hard switch for me to make because I felt like a huge failure but it is what is best for the students so it needed to happen. Old Navy is easy and enjoyable as always.
This week I was both annoyed by, and very grateful for, friends. Annoyed because I once again realized how secluded I am because of my schedule and how selective they can be. Many times it is my choice about what I can and cannot do, especially during the week, and it sucks knowing that I can't be social when I'd like to be because of the time I have to get up in the morning. It's also hard being alone after a hard day at work when I could use a friend or two to be around. With a good friend moving this weekend, I made sure to have time to spend with my friends being social. There was the 80's party on Friday night and a going away party for Saturday night. Both were a lot of fun and I was really glad to have the time to go. It's good to be surrounded by people, but even then I'm realizing how much the majority of people I call friends here are acquaintances. Which really is my fault because of my schedule and my lack of letting people in. At the same time, I can be at a party and at times still feel alone. It is a really odd feeling. Don't get me wrong I had a good time and I'm grateful for the experiences. I'm also thankful for the few friends in my life who know when to push me to talk and can actually get me to do it. I've needed to truly talk for a while now and I finally did a little bit this week, and it helped a little.
This coming week will again be long, only a little over 40 hours of work, and I have Friday completely off! But then spring break starts. One more week!!
I did finish another book this week though! I read Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. It's the second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy and it was pretty good. I had read the majority of it over last weekend and then just couldn't find the time to finish it until this weekend which was really hard because I just wanted to know how it ended. It had a nice amount of suspense and action in it while moving pretty quickly. I'm hoping to start the third book today or sometime this week.
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