Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 104

I absolutely did not intend to ghost you guys for almost two weeks, wow. I am going to stop pretending I ever have anything completely ready for anything because every time I think we’re in a position to start daily updates, my job and brain are like LIAR.

I just got super overwhelmed with how much I have to do, what I’m not getting done, and I was starting to feel like all I do is work and nothing ever gets done. I literally have to work nearly every waking hour, and it’s still not enough. For example, I am writing this to you from my home office in the middle of a Tuesday. I had a personal day scheduled for a dentist appointment, but I had to reschedule because I didn’t have the $200 I needed for the dental work (dental insurance is such a scam because WHAT are you even covering at this point).

But instead of being able to enjoy my day off or cancelling and going to work, I kept the day off so I could…work. As I told my students, I took off a  day from work because I have so much work that isn’t getting done at work because I’m too busy…working. Diabolical. But I worked for about 90 minutes, and I’m taking a break.

All my content has to be basically finished by May 29. My grading has be done by June 5 for the most part, so we are in the home stretch. But we’re also in the part of the schedule where the students can smell summer and are more feral than ever, and my brain is just like LEAVE ME ALONE on a daily basis.  I legitimately crashed out on my eighth period students who never take any notes or do any of the work, but saunter over to my desk on quiz day so I can reteach them the entire chapter. I just kept asking for their notes over and over and over until they went away and they had the AUDACITY to be irritated with me. Listen, buddy, you want me to teach you twice? Welcome to summer school where I’ll get paid for it.

I will update what I can when I can.