I am tired!! Weirdly tired. I didn't stay up any later than usual, didn't get up any earlier, and I just had a 3 day weekend. You would think that I would feel refreshed. Not so.

It doesn't help that I have a lot of stresses right now outside of student teaching and all that comes with it. Hopefully things all work themselves out and I can feel a bit more at ease about life. If that doesn't happen, then..well, I won't think about it.

The last two days have been fairly uneventful. It is Week 4, but it feels like we have been at it for a long time. My CT took her youngest to her first day of pre-school yesterday, so I had a sub. Not that it mattered, I still taught everything per usual.

The 7th graders did fairly well on the portion of the test where they labeled latitude and longitude coordinates. But give them a multiple choice test about a map of SW Asia and they are done for. I thought that would be the easiest. Ah well. We will get there.

I think the thing that is most tiring about teaching is that if it's not one thing it's another. For example, the students were pretty good overall today but then we had to figure out progress reports (which are due tomorrow). That might sound easy--don't you just look at the average of their grades? Not anymore! It's "are they meeting expectation or not meeting expectations?" Not to mention we are still unsure of grades in general....ugh. So that was interesting.

I had a small chat with one of my students today. She has a ton of potential but she is just throwing it all down the drain with her choice of actions, words, etc. It is so upsetting to see! Let's hope I can put her down the right path. Middle school really is where it is decided. Granted, everyone can change their life path whenever they want to but this is a make or break year.

On that note, I'm tired, need to try and get some 8th grade tests graded and then get to bed. Don't let the bed bugs bite, right? (For real, though, there's outbreaks across the country...including in some apt complexes here in the big O. Sick) Try to go to bed tonight and not be paranoid....