Again I Ask You: WHAT HOLIDAY BREAK?!

Let me just say that on this Saturday morning I have spent (so far) two hours grading.  I have 5 final grades done.  20 more to go.

In hindsight, I could have been a lot more organized throughout the semester.

Also?  One of my tutoring students is freaking out about a paper due this week, so I agreed to work with her on it for a couple of hours this afternoon.

So again with the non-existent holiday break.  Lucy and I are not cut out for this fast-paced lifestyle.  But at least we can work in our pj's...so there's that.

There may be home made chili in our future.

TWENTY MORE FINAL GRADES TO CALCULATE????

There's been yet another change in the ole job category of my life: I resigned from the K-8 school.  I got a much-coveted position on campus as a writing consultant.  It was actually easier than I expected to resign; it's almost time for the holiday break and kids are absent and sick, and it's generally chaotic.  I will certainly miss some relationships there, and I learned a lot about education, kids, teaching, and myself.

However.

Although all of my jobs this past year have had an educational component in common, it will be nice that now my two main ones will be composition-focused.  I think they will reinforce each other, and the only (partial) outlier will be tutoring, which is fine.

I'm more excited than I'm showing on here.  Mainly because I'm starting to freak out a bit about the work load next semester.  Why did I think it was a good idea to teach TWO classes?  THEN why did I think it was a good idea to completely overhaul my syllabus and create hours and days and weeks of more work for myself?  In addition to taking TWO literature classes?  Oh, and starting a new job.  A career-level, contributing-to-my-future, most-likely-IS-my-future job?

I need a drink.