Well, thanks again (on Mark’s behalf) for your kind thoughts about his Grandma.

I left Queens last night to get back for school today. I don’t want to complain about my travels given the circumstances, but man am I worn out. I drove from R.I. to N.J. to Queens and back to R.I. in a little less more  24 hours! There were car accidents everywhere in Connecticut, so it took nearly 5 hours to get back home (usually takes 3.5 or 4). I had no time to rest, sleep or prepare for the week and I am definitely not ready for the week. I hate that feeling. 

The school where I’m student teaching is a little untraditional, so there is no set curriculum or lesson plans in place to rely on. Everything is done from scratch. Sometimes it’s a little difficult to come up with some wonderful lesson idea for every subject. I often get lesson plan writer’s block and it stinks. The teachers at the school are all brilliant and excellent and there is a little pressure associated with being observed everyday. I just remind myself that I enjoy it and that it’s nothing like the lawyer hell I lived in before. Then I try to move on, but just so everyone knows, teaching is not all about singing happy songs and recess. Alright, I’ll stop complaining now. No one likes a wining food blogger. 

I am in such a funk lately and I really don’t have anything interesting to share. Oh, we’re pushing the new blogging challenge back a week so Mark can have some time to go to the store to buy actual food.  

Here is my lunch and snacks for today. I’ve never had that bar, but I am such a fan of bananas that I can’t imagine I’ll be disappointed.

And a bag of too small clothes that depress me. I am giving them away per Jenn’s example. 

Hopefully once I get going today I’ll feel a little better, but right now I feel like going back in my bed and sleeping for about 12 hours.  I know I need some good, clean food (like an actual fruit or vegetable) and a run or something. It’s so interesting to me how a couple days of being inactive affects my mood. I need to come up with an exercise equivalent for the word “hangry” that means the gross, agitated, slumpy shoulderfeeling  one gets from not exercising for several days.

Well, hope everyone has a good Tuesday. I promise to be in a better mood soon.