Sunday, September 14, 2008

Setting myself up for stress

It's Sunday night. I have not touched a thing for work since I left school on Friday afternoon. I have quizzes to grade and plans to make, yet I've done absolutely nothing. I was bored all day today, but I didn't want to do work. Now it's 9pm and I have to think of some lesson plans. Why do I do this to myself?

*EDIT*

It's 10:02pm. I've completed lesson plans for tomorrow. (I really only had to plan for two of my four classes tomorrow because the other two are doing what the other section of their class did on Friday.) I even planned tomorrow for all but one of my classes. Even if I'm planning the night before, I can't let myself get too stressed. I still want to be in a positive mood when I get to school!

2 comments:

Margaret said...

I try to plan for a week at a time, but it seems like stuff always gets in the way of my plans. (like assemblies that run over or fire drills) Bah!! Hope you have a great week.

Anonymous said...

I learned a few years ago to stop bringing work home, because I never did any of it, and it just stressed me out to look at that bag of papers sitting in my living room.

Now that we're doing pretty much everything online, I don't have a massive bag (or, on the really good Fridays, a massive box) of papers to bring home... but I'm required to bring my laptop home every day (can't leave it at school, for security reasons). So it sits there, mocking me, stressing me out...

I told my kids Friday I'd ba caught up on grades Monday. Yeah, that didn't really happen... but they seem to have forgotten over the weekend, so they didn't ask me about it today.