Work
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Date: 07 March 2007 22:08:53
Oh my.
I am beginning to know the meaning of "exhausted"... and not just because I looked in a dictionary.
Did I really used to do this job full time? AND look after my family? AND look after my Dad? AND function as a human being? Now I am on my knees by breaktime, and need a serious nap when I get in from work at lunchtime (You know, a serious nap which does not involve teaching maths, English and science to a reluctant and argumentative teenager.....)
The first day back, which was last Thursday, I came in and ate lunch and went and sat in the lounge while Tiddles made me a cup of tea. I woke up when Smudgelet got home at 4.15. I stayed conscious - or semi-conscious at least - until they went to bed at seven, whereupon I sat down to watch something on TV and woke up at 10.30. I thought bed might be a good option, but having slept so much already I decided to take a good book with me. I was asleep by 10.35 and woke to the extremely unwelcome sound of my alarm playing "If I had words to make a day for you" at the unearthly hour of 6.30 am. After all that sleep I was so wide awake and with it that, once fed and washed and dressed, I leapt into the car and enthusiastically drove to school.
Shame I wasn't awake enough to remember to take anything with me. You know, those little non-essentials that you sometimes carry with you to work... things like laptop computers (to operate the smart board), mark file and registers, lesson plans and worksheets, dinner money, mobile phone, pencil case.... nothing really important. Strangely enough, when I returned home in the afternoon, having had to wing it through four lessons, I came to the wibsite and found a link to this, which had just been added...
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Needless to say, I have remembered everything since!