Today, October 19, is the end of my first quarter as a teacher. I have survived. I need to correct another bushel of papers and get the grades into the office by next Wednesday and I'll be done with the quarter. In celebration of this fact we had half a day today and no school on Monday!

I'm exhausted. I feel like I've just run a race. I was up till 3:00 AM again working on papers because I thought the deadline was today. I didn't succeed and figured I was in trouble. When I got home this afternoon I lay down to rest and slept from 5:00 to 9:00. I got up to eat and when I finish typing this I'll be headed back to bed.... now.