First day of school…
& it’s all promise and possibility. When I was in school, I was the kid in class who couldn’t shut her desk cause it was so crammed full of disorganized mess. But I’d start off every semester determined to do things differently: to take good notes about the assignments, to keep handouts stored carefully, to file things away, to be the perfect and perfectly organized student in the class. Never worked…eventually things would get messy, papers would get stacked up, a banana from my lunch bag would go missing somewhere in my desk & the fruit flies would signal the end to my latest bout with good intentions.
Things are a little different now: since the papers I’m keeping track of are my students’, not my own, I have to be more organized, but I still feel all that promise of a new semester this morning. This semester I can be the perfect teacher.
Food was good all weekend with the family. Hubby made a pound cake (eh gads) and then a trifle with parts of the cake, homemade custard & whipped cream (so not the way we make them in my family at all), but I can usually put the brakes on sweet food easier than the savory ones, so I had small samples of these only.
While my food was good & we got some nice long walks in there, my exercise this weekend was bad. So I’m reconsidering signing up for boot camp. It starts on the 22nd & they do fat analysis & measurements before and after so you can see “how much difference a month can make.” That’s starting to sound really good right now.
Today I teach, tour our new offices, and attend our first dept. meeting (with hubby!). Food:
Breakfast: kashi & blueberries
Lunch: Indian buffet with hubby
Dinner: mac & cheese from the box…not pretty
Snack: pretzels
Exercise: does walking in really uncomfortable shoes count? No? Okay then.
Meh. I bet the great teachers you remember from your school/college days are not those who were perfectly organized. I am guessing you are a very well liked professor because you are down to earth and approachable. That is what matters most.
Have a great semester!!
That was me too… except it was my locker. And then my lunchbox would get lost somewhere down on the bottom of my messy locker (which by the end of the year would be filled to the top with loose paper and stuff) and when it was time for locker clean out I would find said lunchbox the science experiments inside.
FUN!
Back to school, time for new beginnings! Exciting : )
Get signed up for the boot camp. Even at the times when it is hard and it sucks and you hate it and regret it, you’ll be glad that you’re doing it and proud of your accomplishment. Do it! Do it! Do it!