I can't complain. I don't have to wake up early on purpose, sleepily get ready, and maybe scroll through my Twitter feed to see the biggest news stories of the day / hilarious retweets. I just wake up early because that's what I do, make my cup of coffee, and read all of the blogs in the land. Probably go on a morning run before the humidity and heat hit. But all on my own time! No 6:30 am obligations. (Although, my doc said that I need to cut back on the caffeine. I don't think she realizes that caffeine has replaced my blood and without it, I die.)
But before you say that teachers have it easy in the summer time, please consult the list of things that I have done NOT because they're thrilling, but because I need to... for work purposes:
- Type up 3 case briefs, a midterm, and a final exam for a School Law class Tues/Thurs from 7-915 at a "supposed to be 30 min, but more like an hour away because traffic is horrendous and speed cameras make everyone slow down from 70 to 35" location.
- Re-type first and second semester curriculum, not just so I can familiarize myself with my new position, but because whoever okay-ed the layout on this curriculum may not have kept those of us in mind who need a linear lay out of activities, standards, and assessments.
- Re-read Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Julius Caesar and read Fahrenheit 451, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, annotating the bejeezus out of them for vocabulary and elements that my students need to understand before they grow up to big giant juniors.
- Write my lesson plans, gather my materials, browse and shop TpT stores.
- Went to the MSDE conference last week at Reservoir HS. Learned a lot, but still a lot to learn.
- Figure out how to make more $$$$ to pay for this full-price grad class coming up. Yeah, you thought they paid for everything? Think again.
OK, so that's my proof that I'm not just sitting around doing nothing. Which is what I did today, but in all fairness, I did create a couple lesson plans before my Netflix-binge-watching needs took over.
Now that I've listed all of the mundane things about my summer, let's recap on some things that I've done for my own enjoyment.
Wait... I actually have to think about these:
- Read Jurassic Park (seriously, read it) and One Second After (again, read it). Currently reading Cress from the Cinder series.
- Watched Orange is the New Black season 3 in 2 days. Kind of disappointed, but after season 2 there was a lot of living up that season 3 had to do, so my expectations were really high.
- Continuing to watch Grey's Anatomy. I restarted the binge-watching right before school ended and I'm only almost done with season 6. Grey's used to be our show to watch as we waited for everyone to come over before we went out on Thursdays. During commercial breaks, we'd run downstairs to let people into our dorm building. Ah, the days.
- Continuing to watch Entourage with The Boyfriend. When the movie came out, he suggested that we start watching it because we prematurely ended How I Met Your Mother and Arrested Development (oh, how those shows fell off in their last seasons). Now, I'm hooked. Currently on season 4.
- Saw Jurassic World, which inspired me to read the book that started it all.
- Laid by the pool... but seriously, it's been so cloudy/rainy that I haven't had much time over there at all.
- Worked on my fitness. Because "Oh My Quad, Becky Look At Her Squat."
I refuse to count down the days until school starts (who does that?!), but I can't lie that I've been waking up in an anxious cold sweat about what the school year will bring. All I know that is coming is CHANGE.
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