5:30 AM: Crawling around on my bedroom floor searching for my glasses.
6:45 AM: Wiping makeup off just to wipe a brand new contact out of my eye.
7:15 AM: A colleague walks in with ~20 FREE bouquets of flowers that Food Lion was going to throw away. But, this young teacher doesn't have a vase of them.
10:45 AM: 3rd grade music concert practice...5 million kids on bleachers...I used to be that kid.
11:30 AM: Eating a Gobstopper I stole from the treat box.
11:45 AM: A student earned his first trip to the treat box. He chose a small box of nerds. Rather than eating it, he asked if he could put it in his backpack to give to his brother. (Don't worry, I gave him one for himself and then for the brother.)
12:15 PM: Secretly, I'm in debt to the school cafeteria...a student asks if I'd like a snack, "I'd gladly charge it to my account."
6:00 PM: Chilling a friend's house with New Moon on where there's basically an Eclipse outside.
8-8:20 PM: Helping (aka facilitating) G over video chat with her grammar homework, while T & D cordially check-in from the background.
8:20 PM: Being the bystander on the phone while a student's parents get into a blowout fight...
9:00 PM: Stepping out of the 104 degree hot tub to step onto a fallen icicle.
Moral of the Story: Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ~ Pablo Picasso
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