I’m currently sitting on the couch between my two sick cats (more about that in a moment) and my allergies (from the cats) are driving me nuts. I should get up and take my allergy meds, but both cats are sleeping happily next to me so I don’t want to disturb them.
Random thoughts from the past 5 days:
Monday – Work – Day one of the Learning Focused Training. I enjoyed the presenter – she was knowledgeable and entertaining to listen to. Loved Peter’s idea to have dinner at 5 Guys. That was a perfect way to end the day.
We gave the cats their first can of wet food in YEARS because Jasper was not eating much (probably because of the meds he was taking because of his cold) and they were very excited about this:
Tuesday – Work – Day Two of the Learning Focused Training. Started getting my classroom together. Lots of little things to do that day. Worked out with my trainer at the gym. I tried karate and kickboxing for the first time!
Wednesday – Work – Day Three – First day with students (I only had 10th grade): I finished setting up my Inspiration Wall:
This year I covered my desk with contact paper I found at Borders. I love it:
I also put together my GRE study schedule (another one):
Thursday – Day Four – first day with 11th and 12th grade students: This day was one big blur. Lots of lesson planning, Blackboard course creation. Made a new beef stew recipe! Peter picked up really tasty artisan bread rolls to have with dinner.
Today – Day Five – first day with all students. This…went…by…so…fast. It was insane. But a good kind of insane. I have such a great group of students this year. I’m really excited to try some new Learning Focused strategies with them. I worked out at the gym after work and was really happy to discover an iPod dock at the treadmill. Evidently I can plug in my iPhone and watch my movies and TV shows off of the larger screen. But the only two movies I have on on my iPhone right now are the first and second Twilight movies. Yes, I like Twilight – the books AND the movies, I’ll admit it. However, I’m not such a hardcore fan that I was willing to watch it at the gym. I thought somebody might laugh at me. So instead, I watched Oprah and Food Network.
Overall, I think this week went really well. I didn’t get as much studying done as I had hoped, but the first week of back to school is always a bit crazy so I’m planning to readjust a few things in my schedule next week to make sure everything gets done the way I’d like.
