Spring Break?

Spring Break is finally here! Part of this is the typical why dont professors understand the word BREAK means rest not pile on extra work since I have four things due for one class in the week we get back, not to mention lots of decisions to make and other work to do. But thats not really what this blog is about. There is just so much to do. Just for language arts I have to do a portfolio with 20 mini-lessons, a poetry project, and be ready to teach a mini lesson thursday which also needs a bulletin board to go with it before that. I've sent e-mails to like 5 professors about things that I haven't heard back from yet, and half of which I have a feeling I probably won't hear back from. I really need to crack down and find some way to pick out where I want my student teaching placements to be...which knowing nothing about the area or the options makes things very difficult. I have plenty to read and more work still to do.
Then to add on to it I have to find a suitcase and try to pack for Florida since I'm doing alternative spring break again. Not that alternative spring break is an inconvenience to life or anything, I'm actually really super excited for it, especially since this year is a camp family weekend for kids on ventilator assisted care, and I can't wait to get there. It's just that before I get there, or at least leave for there it is one more thing I need to worry about in the short short time i have on "break" because even if I'm excited and want to do it, it still takes up time and thought, both of which I can hardly afford anymore.
But I guess that's the life of a busy busy bee huh?

Posting

So I had originally planned to try to post something everyday. Not always anything too deep, just a little something to keep it up to date -- a summary of the day or how I'm feeling, something simple. That was clearly a completely unrealistic goal that won't be completed. So instead I'm going to make the goal once a week. Still up to date just less burdensome and more leisurely.

A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think...

It's kinda funny the things that can make us feel better. Logically you would think that it would be just doing something with your friends, or maybe a movie by yourself, shopping or food therapy...something along those lines. But it seems like whenever I'm in a funk and have been in a bad mood, as much as I love hanging out with friends and have a ton of fun with them, that's only a temporary fix. It takes going to work or going to my lab observation hours to be legitimately cheered up. (This is how I know I'm going into the right profession mind you.)
For example, early this week I was very frustrated by some things. While hanging out with a friend was fun and temporarily took my mind off of things, it wasn't until I went to my observation hours that my mood really turned around. Somehow three hours with guys I barely know helping them with work and playing basketball can completely turn my mood upside down permanently (or at least until sometime else effects it), even when a whole night with my favorite person couldn't improve it for more than about an hour.
Just the random things I was thinking tonight.