Having Monday off was just a way to spoil me. While I tend to feel a little guilty when I actually have time to relax and do nothing, this week left be craving the ability to veg out and watch a movie!
Tuesday I worked at school and then had lunch with a few friends. It was a nice way to ease into the week. I had to tutor for an hour at night but other than that it was a very easy day.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were all insanely long! Since I was in charge of running Algebra testing at school for all of the 9th grade students this week I had to be at school by 7:15 each morning and stay most days until 2:30 instead of my normal 12:30. That's not a huge deal in general. It was a little annoying. It meant logging on an average of 25 computers 3 to 4 different periods a day and then signing each computer into the test system and setting it up for each student individually. I got pretty quick at it, only 15 minutes for a whole class or so, then just giving directions and watching them take it and logging the computer off or getting it ready for the next class. It is just a very tedious way to spend my day, especially when I could be spending it teaching math. After school on Wednesday and Thursday I had enough time to stop at the bank, or stop to get gas, and then I had to go to my next job where I worked 3:30-8:15. It evens out to about 12 hours of work without a real break other than the drive. By Friday I was exhausted. Luckily I had a break between jobs on Friday, I was able to come home and eat some food and then work 6:30-10:30pm. Still a long day but I somehow made it.
On top of working a lot I got a phone call on Thursday from a school in Virginia which lead to a phone interview on Friday afternoon. It went alright, there were a few questions that I had never really been asked before and therefore wasn't expecting but I think I handled them alright. It sounds like they have a lot of people to talk to so I'm not sure if it will lead to much more but I can keep hoping.
Saturday I worked in the morning, and we had a bit of a rough ending. As we were leaving we found out that one of our students fathers had been hit by a car while he was there for tutoring. He's only a sixth grader, and his father had just been walking down the street when the car had accidentally jumped the curb. It was just another reminder of how frail life is and how quickly things can change. I really hope this student is okay. It was his last day with us for the school year, and to have to deal with this now is just tragic. I can't imagine having to process that kind of loss as an adult let alone as a child.
Once I got home I ate some lunch and then I came home to work on the answer key for the class I'm teaching at work. Luckily I can do Algebra 2/Trig while watching a movie! It's kind of sad that my goal for the weekend was to watch a movie and while I accomplished it, I did it alone and while doing math problems (over 150). Then I went back to work at Old Navy 6:30-10:30. Oh how these long days are getting old.
Today I got lucky! I was scheduled to work at 8am at Old Navy and they cut my shift so I was able to sleep in a little bit! My body let me sleep until 9:30, it was glorious! I had some breakfast and a lazy morning in general and then I headed to work to teach Algebra 2/Trig Boot Camp! Oh let me tell you, 5 students on a Sunday afternoon for 2 hours, that's a blast! Luckily they were all pretty serious about doing math and understanding what we were working on so it seemed to go well. The rest of the day I've just laid low and tried to relax.
With the weather as crazy as it's been my headaches have been driving me crazy lately. I've been lucky to get through the week. Most days I've wanted to curl up in a ball and just not get out of bed, which obviously isn't an option. The intense pain comes and goes, it always has, and with it rains or we get thunderstorms it's always worse, which explains why this weekend has been so painful. It is just very difficult to handle. Pain that is caused by something that I have absolutely no control over is frustrating. At least when I figured out the gluten was causing problems I could (and do) limit my diet and control what I ate. But I can't change the weather, although that would be nice. The fall and spring are hardest because it is when things are changing the most. Part of it is also my stress level, which I do have some control over I just have a hard time exerting control on it. I can handle a busy work schedule, I've learned how to deal with that, but social stress and stress due to the changes coming up in my life are throwing me for a loop. I'm hoping that the transition out of school and into my "summer" schedule/life goes okay but honestly I'm really not sure it will.
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