Yesterday afternoon I came home from school so completely fried that I called L. to cancel our 4:30 band rehearsal and fell into bed, fully clothed, at 3:30. A few hours (and several weird dreams) later, I awoke with enough energy to walk over to Shaw's and buy some fish for dinner. Then of course I couldn't get to sleep so I ended up staying up until the wee hours working on the new weblog. But today I feel functional. And I'm able to appreciate the small moments of success, when students start to understand a new concept, when they get excited about what they're doing and forget to take a break, and when they say, "Ms. Green, do you want to see the website I just made?" or "Hey, Ms. Green, I'm doing work today!" (My response: "Finally! Excellent! And I've managed not to strangle you for 2 weeks! Life is good.")
Tomorrow I'm giving them a "game day". They will all log on to some LAN game and try to kill each other (sadly, as in tango, this is not real life...). Meanwhile, I will try to unpack the tower of boxes in the conference room. Maybe I'll find the Photoshop serial number! Yup, this is true excitement. :-)