After a very long and mostly productive day, I turned on the oven to preheat while I mixed up the meatloaf.
Nothing happened. Temperature did not change. The broiler works fine. The burners work fine. The oven has apparently stopped working.
Scheduled a repair during spring break and meanwhile am cooking the meatloaf in the big dutch oven.
Menu planning will be interesting, but how am I supposed to get by without my scones on the weekend?
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Monday, February 20, 2017
today's exercise in frustration
I did not have my doctor's appointment today, and did not find out the results of my MRI. My labs weren't back yet -- those labs that I took Friday morning off work for! -- and so the doctor wouldn't see me.
I'm rescheduled for next Monday, after school. At least I won't have to take any more time off work for this nonsense.
I'm rescheduled for next Monday, after school. At least I won't have to take any more time off work for this nonsense.
Saturday, February 18, 2017
it is what it is
Re-reading that last post, I see a number of typo's I'm not going to correct. They accurately reflect my state at the time -- I think I fell asleep in the middle, woke up, finished it, and posted it before falling back to sleep. A lot of days that's what things are like for me: falling asleep in the middle of some task just long enough so I can then wake up with enough energy to complete it before I can go to sleep for (whatever remains of) the rest of the night.
This week's overwhelming task was getting grades caught up for progress reports, up till 3:30. Of course the rest of the week was affected by that, but I made it through without anything horrible happening. The highlight of most days was the bottle rocket launcher, even though we couldn't get the bottle to go very high. We'll try again later.
I left school mid-morning to get a blood draw yesterday, because my endocrinologist had ordered it to be taken between 8 and 10AM, and when I went last Saturday, it was too close to 10 for them to do the draw in time. I felt crushed, especially because I could have left earlier. I actually sat around reading emails for a while because I know how crowded the lab is early on Saturdays. I didn't realize it was a timed order. My appointment with my endo is Monday, and I was thinking I would have to reschedule because I wouldn't be able to get the labs done in time, but I was very lucky in getting the appointment yesterday. Of course I had to take time off work to do it, but it was actually good for me to be away for a little while.
I'm slightly upset in advance of the appointment, as usual. I don't know if the change in my peripheral vision means anything or not. The lab drew about eight tubes of blood from me yesterday -- I don't remember my endo ordering so many, or it being a timed test, before. I hope I'll find out Monday what's going on, at least with the pituitary adenoma situation. I hope the blood tests are back in time, too. The staff at the lab last Saturday said they take 48 hours, but the staff yesterday said 2-5 days. It's just another situation I have no control over.
Meanwhile, I still have way too much work to do and literally not enough time to do it. This is a 3-day weekend and that will help tremendously. I am constantly saying I need another day -- now I have it, I have to use it wisely! I don't like this feeling of being oppressed by my work. I chose it, and when I chose it, I thought it would be OK, but it has been more work than I anticipated. Only 14 more weeks of school -- it's going to fly.
This week's overwhelming task was getting grades caught up for progress reports, up till 3:30. Of course the rest of the week was affected by that, but I made it through without anything horrible happening. The highlight of most days was the bottle rocket launcher, even though we couldn't get the bottle to go very high. We'll try again later.
I left school mid-morning to get a blood draw yesterday, because my endocrinologist had ordered it to be taken between 8 and 10AM, and when I went last Saturday, it was too close to 10 for them to do the draw in time. I felt crushed, especially because I could have left earlier. I actually sat around reading emails for a while because I know how crowded the lab is early on Saturdays. I didn't realize it was a timed order. My appointment with my endo is Monday, and I was thinking I would have to reschedule because I wouldn't be able to get the labs done in time, but I was very lucky in getting the appointment yesterday. Of course I had to take time off work to do it, but it was actually good for me to be away for a little while.
I'm slightly upset in advance of the appointment, as usual. I don't know if the change in my peripheral vision means anything or not. The lab drew about eight tubes of blood from me yesterday -- I don't remember my endo ordering so many, or it being a timed test, before. I hope I'll find out Monday what's going on, at least with the pituitary adenoma situation. I hope the blood tests are back in time, too. The staff at the lab last Saturday said they take 48 hours, but the staff yesterday said 2-5 days. It's just another situation I have no control over.
Meanwhile, I still have way too much work to do and literally not enough time to do it. This is a 3-day weekend and that will help tremendously. I am constantly saying I need another day -- now I have it, I have to use it wisely! I don't like this feeling of being oppressed by my work. I chose it, and when I chose it, I thought it would be OK, but it has been more work than I anticipated. Only 14 more weeks of school -- it's going to fly.
Friday, February 03, 2017
something's gotta give...
I have too much work to do! And I haven't looked at, or thought about, my thesis in weeks. I need to get something to my adviser before Monday. Thursday was supposed to be my writing day, but I didn't get to thesis work. Instead, I finished up the child study team paperwork for two students, and then wrote up the 3 math lessons I'm giving tomorrow, and then revised a power point presentation for 7th grade science. t
Yesterday I plowed through about half my stack of grading, but that was because my students had math tests yesterday and needed their previous tests back. So now I literally have a test (or quiz, or sometimes both) to grade in five of my six classes. I know what I'm doing this weekend.
I keep thinking I got behind because of the science fair, and then the CST paper work, and then having to do bulletin boards (it's February!) Thinking about how many hours I spent on those tasks (too many), perhaps I really will be OK. Now I'm really regretting not doing more work over Christmas break, but I was so exhausted the thought of it left me cold. I'm paying now!
At least planning is done for my 3 math classes, and I could conceivably finish planning out my science classes this weekend if I ever get through the grading. I have this sense that every year I say this same thing -- I can't believe how busy I am. Perhaps I have been just as busy before, and I jthikust don't remember it because it doesn't feel the same? I never had to prep more than two classes before and now I've got six. (I laugh.)
I've already signed my contract for next year, and my principal was very complimentary when we met about it. I like to think I'm doing a good job, but I don't feel I have an accurate sense of that right now. My students grades are abysmal, and I just found out yesterday that one of my 8th graders has been treating his math homework as a creative writing assignment and I've been giving him credit for it (it's a completion grade, and it looked reasonable...). That took the wind out of my sails a bit, but I have to remind myself that it's not about me. It never is! No reson to take it personally.
To end on an up note, I'm having a blast integrating the classroom computers into my lessons, and the students love them. It's going far better than I anticipated, especially since I'm more or less making it up as I go along. Come to think of it, that's another unscheduled thing I've been spending time on, putting me even further behind with my own stuff even while moving ahead in the classroom.
If I could just figure out how to balance all this... it's only 4 more months, and spring break and standardized testing are in there, so it's really only about 3. With the amount of sleep I'm not getting, I wonder how long I can go without coming down with a significant illness... and there's the specter of surgery, too. It's weird how my left peripheral vision is decreased -- I notice it because on the right, the entire rim of reading glasses is in my peripheral vision, but on the left, it's not. Not a scientific test, I know, but it's consistent. And annoying, because I really don't want to have brain surgery.
Anxiety always keeps me up till the wee hours. At least these days I'm working while I'm at it.
Yesterday I plowed through about half my stack of grading, but that was because my students had math tests yesterday and needed their previous tests back. So now I literally have a test (or quiz, or sometimes both) to grade in five of my six classes. I know what I'm doing this weekend.
I keep thinking I got behind because of the science fair, and then the CST paper work, and then having to do bulletin boards (it's February!) Thinking about how many hours I spent on those tasks (too many), perhaps I really will be OK. Now I'm really regretting not doing more work over Christmas break, but I was so exhausted the thought of it left me cold. I'm paying now!
At least planning is done for my 3 math classes, and I could conceivably finish planning out my science classes this weekend if I ever get through the grading. I have this sense that every year I say this same thing -- I can't believe how busy I am. Perhaps I have been just as busy before, and I jthikust don't remember it because it doesn't feel the same? I never had to prep more than two classes before and now I've got six. (I laugh.)
I've already signed my contract for next year, and my principal was very complimentary when we met about it. I like to think I'm doing a good job, but I don't feel I have an accurate sense of that right now. My students grades are abysmal, and I just found out yesterday that one of my 8th graders has been treating his math homework as a creative writing assignment and I've been giving him credit for it (it's a completion grade, and it looked reasonable...). That took the wind out of my sails a bit, but I have to remind myself that it's not about me. It never is! No reson to take it personally.
To end on an up note, I'm having a blast integrating the classroom computers into my lessons, and the students love them. It's going far better than I anticipated, especially since I'm more or less making it up as I go along. Come to think of it, that's another unscheduled thing I've been spending time on, putting me even further behind with my own stuff even while moving ahead in the classroom.
If I could just figure out how to balance all this... it's only 4 more months, and spring break and standardized testing are in there, so it's really only about 3. With the amount of sleep I'm not getting, I wonder how long I can go without coming down with a significant illness... and there's the specter of surgery, too. It's weird how my left peripheral vision is decreased -- I notice it because on the right, the entire rim of reading glasses is in my peripheral vision, but on the left, it's not. Not a scientific test, I know, but it's consistent. And annoying, because I really don't want to have brain surgery.
Anxiety always keeps me up till the wee hours. At least these days I'm working while I'm at it.
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