Here is a typical day. See if you can notice any patterns.
A Typical Day Schedule
6:45 AM: Wake up. Drink moderately excessive amount of coffee, but eat healthy breakfast, brush hair, etc.
7:35 AM: Leave for work. Rejuvenating 10 minute walk to train station. Deal very patiently with Spanish slow walkers as they shuffle down the street, apparently headed for a job that starts in 2019.
9:15 AM: Tell hilarious joke to my first period physics freshmen (we were studying momentum and I told them to ‘get their mass in motion’. Maybe you had to be there.)
10:25 AM: Procure snacks for my whole 9th grade advisory because the student that was meant to bring them forgot. Moderately self-serving, as they are much more agreeable when they are well-fed. But still nice I thought.
11:45 AM: Buy a doughnut for a co-workers birthday.
12:25 PM: Do a very nice response to a co-workers email, with suggestions for a lesson plan.
1:00 PM: Do ANOTHER very nice response to a co-workers email, offering to chaperone a field trip during my back-to-back weekly prep periods (the teaching equivalent of offering to work on New Year’s Eve).
1:30 PM: Run into headmaster on my way back from getting coffee in the school cafeteria.
1:35 PM: Was he staring at my coffee? Should I have acknowledged the coffee?
2:30 PM: Like maybe brought it up as a joke? Made some reference to how tired I am because I work so hard?
3:15 PM: He’s my boss, he knows I work hard, right?
3:20 PM: Right?
3:45 PM: Maybe I should dress more professionally for work?
4:05 PM: I drink too much coffee. (click here for more thoughts on coffee consumption). And not enough water!! And too much wine! What’s wrong with me?!?!?!
A good friend referred to the above anxiety-spiral as “the scaries” the other night while we drinking wine day while we were drinking juice…yeah, juice. Eighty percent of the time, I feel like I am a responsible, kind and thoughtful person. The other twenty percent….happen from 1:30 PM to 4:05 PM. (which, for you math nerds out there, means it’s actually only 10.6% of the day. So that’s good.)
Off to exercise-bike away the scaries….non-scary photos from beautiful Parque del Buen Retiro Rose Garden below.
Banner photo credit: Eric Rothermel