Emotionally drained
I’m wiped today and although I think I know why, I don’t know why it has affected me this greatly. I think it’s just the combined effect of everything.
Today is day 2 of my class and we watched a video about teaching. In it, the teacher had students interview each other and then introduce their partners to the class. One student obviously had been through chemo/radiation but the kids weren’t sure how to handle it. The teacher expertly brought the topic up for discussion (with the child’s permission) and in the discussion the kid talked about how hard his illness has been on his parents b/c after all, they feel it’s their job to protect their kids. For obvious reasons I had trouble with this and had to leave.
After that, though, I was pretty ok but noticed that there are a few people in our class who have to comment on EVERY SINGLE point that is made. They have a story that they want to relate, and what’s more annoying, the story generally points out what a wonderful teacher and/or parent they are. I seriously think I’m developing diabetes from how sweet some of these people appear to be.
The third thing that set me off was that we have group presentations and our group goes on Thursday. No problem, but I have ordered an item for ours and it probably won’t be delivered until Thursday. So I asked the Friday group if they would be willing to switch days and everyone was ok with it except for 1 lady. She said that she couldn’t be ready to go by Thursday b/c she needed time to prepare. That would be ok with me but she missed out on working with her group yesterday TO GO GOLFING!!!! Even her group members stared at her in disbelief.
On a good note, though, I got up at 5:00 and did my workout and stuck to plan on food as best I could. Lunch was a BLT wrap on tomato basil and cottage cheese. Really yummy! I’m tempted to hop on the scale but I’m going to hold off, I don’t want anything to pull me off course.
I couldn’t help smiling on this entry, Brandie. I kept thinking “been there, done that!” Don’t you hate it when you’re tired and you want to go and there are always a couple of people who just have to make comments that are not of any interest whatsoever to the rest of the group? It seems like this happens at every faculty meeting we have. As soon as the principal says “Anyone have any questions before we finish?” and the same couple of people always bring up some topic that has nothing to do with anyone else and we wind up hanging around another half an hour!
You’re doing fantastic with the diet and exercise and class. I’m impressed! You go, girl!
What grade do you teach? I’m seriously considering going back to school to become a teacher.