Only 9 school days left until spring break!
I remember counting the days like that when I was in high school, but it never would have occurred to me that my teachers almost certainly did the same thing (and not just to plan accordingly).
This weekend has been the first weekend in a very long time--actually, maybe in the 7 weeks that I've been teaching--that I haven't felt stressed to the point that I felt like spending time not doing schoolwork could have crisis-level consequences. I had hardly any grading to do this weekend (just some short stuff, which I haven't actually finished yet) and I did most of the planning I needed to do laying in bed when I woke up at a ridiculously early hour on Saturday morning after going to sleep just 4 hours earlier. Getting very little sleep led to a somewhat lazy weekend, though I did some good leafletting at the peace rally today and did an hour-long interview with someone who is writing a book about AR activism and is interviewing activists for his book, which I'm really excited about. It wasn't much, but I feel really good that I did some activism this weekend now that I had a bit of time free.
I also started getting excited for spring break today! My wonderful friend Faith let me know recently that she is going on a vipassana retreat in Yosemite and offered me her car while she is away, provided that I drive her there and pick her up. At first I didn't think it was workable because the retreat starts in the middle of the week, but I realized today that it's during my spring break and so will work out perfectly! My week and a half off should be a great combination of catch-up time at home for the first half and relaxing and fun and adventurous time for the second half, possibly with Spanky, possibly with Luke. Fun!
In other news, I went to my master teacher's St. Patrick's Day party, which went great. My other master teacher was there, and she and I spent most of the time together talking--some talk about my class and getting her feedback on stuff as well as some more general teacher talk/advice from her and some non-school-related stuff. (I learned that she's totally against the war and Bush & Co., whihc is awesome, but she doesn't ever talk about it in class.) It was so interesting to go to the "mean" master teacher's house and see her boyfriend and her friends and her life in general, which I'm not exposed to at school. She's really a pretty cool person--except for the massive amounts of criticism she dishes out as well as the massive amounts of meat she dishes in; wonder if these are related....?
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