9.5

There are nine and a half days left with kids at school. I also must do a ton of "check out" stuff---like returning textbooks, cleaning up my room, filing paperwork, yadda yadda yadda.

I am trying to get motivated this morning to do my "final" grades (ssshhhhh! don't tell ths kids) once they know the grading is done, they go crazy---so I am not really going to make anything final until the last day of school. However, the rest of my grades are going to be easy peasy things.

I am really excited about this summer. Strangely, I am excited about cleaning out my parents' garage as my first big project. It has recently occurred to me that they are not doing a very good job taking care of themselves. They have always been cluttered people, but recently it is getting dangerous----both physically and economically. They keep spending money on stuff they already have, eating expired food, are not able to freely move about their house (due to the clutter), losing the cat, losing bills and important documents. My grammar on that last sentence was not so good---but you know what I mean. As my sister says, I love tasks like this---but I also like complaining about them. I think what needs to happed---if I declutter a place, I need to never see it again. It is heart breaking to untangle all the yarn in my aunt's sewing basket only to see it all gone to hell the next time I visit.

I have been screwing up my schedule left and right. I have no idea what is going on. I think I will have to spend my "planning" time tomorrow (I do not _really_ get one) going over all this stuff and organizing my papers. I do get a planning during my lunch block---I have never had that before, and I think that will be nice, but I assume that means I have lunch duty. Oh well. only a few days left. If I make it through Wednesday, I will be fine. Wednesday may be the hardest schedule of my life. 4 hours with the class from hormonal hades.