Shabbos

I slept the entire Shabbos. Well, I went to dinner, and to lunch, actually, but I slept like a rock the rest of the time. I barely even woke up when it was over. And then I just went back to sleep. All the exhaustion of the whole week of stress just caught up to me. But I think this week will be better. Or at least, I hope it will.

I figured a bunch of things out, like how to start off firm. I'm still working on how to stay firm for more than 5 minutes when I actually don't want to be, and how to enforce the hand-up-mouth-shut policy when I'm the only teacher that takes it seriously.

But I'm in a million times better shape than I was in this time last week, and I know now that it is going to be hard, but also that it's something I am going to learn how to do until the end of the year, and that's exciting.

In Nano (novel writing month) there are four weeks:

1 -- where it all seems easy and exciting and new
2 -- where it's impossible and you just want to cry and stop
3 -- where it turns possible again
and 4 -- where the ending writes itself and you are along for the ride

I'm firmly into "week 1" of teaching now. I know it will get hard, but I also know that I'm committed, and that the ending will be awesome and the ride will be great.

Who's excited?!