First impressions of 2011

Things that make it a bad week:

-not being able to sleep the Sunday before school reconvened as if I were a first year teacher again

-planning Precalculus lessons the day-of, every day an hour before school starts

-planning Geometry lessons the day-of, every day during my prep period and at lunch

-horrible soccer practice the day before our soccer game

-losing our soccer game 2-0 after being undefeated

-realizing that I have an ant problem in my classroom when I went to reach for my Coke and it was COVERED in ants

-realizing that the ant problem is because the janitor has not been cleaning my room or trash cans at all this week, and come to think of it, for a while now

-not being able to set aside the time to write this blog entry in complete sentences

Things that make it a good week:

-new shoes

-new soccer cleats

-new mattress pad

-not planning Algebra lessons the day-of

-completing Algebra, Geometry, and Precalculus final exams for next week that all my colleagues want to use

-having our department head speak privately to me about how drastic measures might be taken in the math department next year and I might be able to teach more higher-level math if I stay

-knowing that the halfway mark for the academic year is one week away

-realizing that the soccer loss was a good thing considering that the reason practice sucked so much was that the team was cocky as all hell

All in all, I think it's a toss up.