Remember the oxygen mask instructions given before each flight by the flight attendant? “Put YOUR mask on FIRST – then help the person next you.”
Honestly, mid-winter break came at the right time.
I’ve been feeling out-of-sorts for the past 3 weeks. Tired, cranky and ever so grateful for our pseudo-snow day. That gave me a very much needed one day off to regroup and make it until mid-winter break. My applied linguistics class has an insane amount of homework and I’ve had one hell of a time making any meaningful connections with the required IPA transcription activities to my daily library work. Thankfully, it’s about over.
In the day job, we’ve had some professional development sessions designed to help us better understand ourselves and our students. Teachers tend to be very selfless and giving, but we have to learn to be selfish and put ourselves first or we’re not going to be any good for anybody. My school work environment meets the training leader’s definition of “a trauma environment.” Hmmm. Think that might be one of the reasons so many people leave each year?
After 48 hours of wholesome food, proper hydration, vitamins & supplements, sleep/naps and mega time spent reading, I FINALLY feel good again. Message received!!! I have to slow down. set boundaries and take better care of me.
Oh, and quilt!
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