Howdy-ho. I'm tired. I'm ALWAYS tired these days. I wake up every morning at 5:15 and show up at school by 6:30. School begins at 7:45. I'm there an hour and a quarter early every day. Well, every day except last Friday, when I woke up at 8:30. That wasn't fun, not at all. I think I turned my alarm off or forgot to turn it on, subconciously. I will get used to this, eventually. I swear I'm supposed to be used to waking up early already. But I guess I'm still not ready to give up the ghost.

I gotta be honest, there isn't a day that goes by where I don't think about quitting teaching to enjoy being a young person. I'm not even technically a "twentysomething" yet, I'm still considered "early twenties." I guess this is a shock all young people must go through when at last they must join the rat race/real world/working wounded, yada yada... the shock of transitioning from COLLEGE STUDENT - RAWK ONNNNN! COLLLEGE!! to ...working professional. It ain't an easy thing to deal with, that I know for sure. But the problem is at this point, I don't know what I could potentially do other than teaching. The only other kind of job I'd want would be something manual and outdoors. Working with my hands, creating a physical difference. Building houses, digging trenches, cleaning up the rubble of the offices of a tech company after a fire set by a deranged ex-employee, that kind of thing. All I know is if teaching doesn't start to get any easier, I'm going to put arsenic in the guacamole.

posted by MAtt D. at 10:20 PM