TL;DR Hopelessly behind on work. Update schedule shifting to Fridays & Saturdays for Flash, Sundays for Patreon series. Anticipating getting back to normal starting Oct 27.

So….we need to talk.

Going into this year, I knew that I was going to struggle to prep three courses five days a week, and I tried so hard to organize myself before the school year started, but I wasn’t able to get nearly as much as I’d hoped done, and I feel super overwhelmed. Then you factor in the craziness of nearly four weeks of remodeling chaos, and I’m insanely behind. I need to get a hold of the situation before we’re in the “I have so much to do, we need to take a day off” situation, because we’re heading there. I’m always scrambling to get stuff done for tomorrow, and I have to find a way to get things ready a few weeks ahead of time.

French II has nothing prepped for next week, not even the textbook pages. French I and French III don’t have any of the slides or assignments created. I’m being observed on Monday for content that hasn’t been written. Honestly, sitting down to make the list of all the things that aren’t done might make me cry.

I am very cognizant of the fact I’ve promised Patreon perks that I haven’t been able to fully deliver, and I hate that. I promise you I write it on my schedule, and I take it seriously. But I just don’t know how to balance the real-life job right now, the part-time job, and still sleep and avoid burnout.

Some good news — we’re coming to the end of the first marking period. November has two four-day weekends, and I have a professional day built in, and most of what I’m doing with my kids in Nov and Dec is media-related which is way less time-consuming to put together, especially since most of them have templates put together, and it’s just plugging in the next episode/song/movie information.

So — I want to take this weekend and next to get myself set up for the next few months by making sure that I have those templates put together, that things are set up for plug and play, and that I’m not frantically working late or going to work an hour early to get more work done, and then we can finally be on an actual schedule on Oct 27.

I’ll update Flash on Fridays & Saturdays, and the Patreon series on Sunday for the next two weeks, but nothing should be expected from me on Mon-Thurs. I’ll know by next Friday whether I can come back to updating Flash during the week. I’m working on editing the flash fiction series for a January release, and I can toss 25 minutes of prep work towards it more easily than I can 60 minutes of sustained writing if that makes sense.

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