I Am Suffering From Sleep Deprivation

I believe I have found a new form of cruel and unusual punishment. It would have to beat out Japanese Water Torture and the Rack. It is called teaching! I have been wanting to update the site for almost 2 weeks now. But for 2 weeks, the few times I've actually booted up the computer it has been to print out a handout, create a notes page or send an email to a parent... (Crap! I was supposed to call a parent after school today!) My days have been spent moving the last few things around my room. I still have a GIANT stack of papers that need to be moved into a filing cabinet. But other than that, most things are ready to go. After some creative work this afternoon, I have a desk! Well, I've always had a desk... But now you can see it!!! When I'm not trying to organize myself, I've been helping my new co-teacher get acclimated to the lab, teaching classes, and running around frantically to get handouts and other various photocopies made! I've been getting home in the evenings and falling asleep on the couch, waking up a few hours later only to drag my exhausted backside to bed. The few days when I haven't followed this routine, I have been babysitting at my parents. Which is where I find myself at the moment. One of these days I'll write specifically about my kids. I've really been enjoying teaching English again. Although after being burned at the stake in Singapore, I'm still a little gun-shy. I find myself constantly wondering if I'm doing a good job. I worry when my students say they like me or my class, and I hate when the special ed teacher comes in to co-teach. And I especially question it when I am selected for specialized training activities. My principal has selected me to become a University of Kansas certified trainer in the learning strategies curriculum we teach to our students. It's a two year process (I think) that will result in my training other teachers to use the curriculum and teach the learning strategies. It's a ctually a pretty big honor to have been selected, and it probably gives me some sense of job security... but, it still makes me a little insecure... not sure why. Well, this has gotten quite lengthy... i should probably get going. I'll write more another time!