Apparently the way to get a lot done at work is to be really, really depressed all day on Sunday. I got to school this morning and discovered my usual Monday morning meeting was cancelled, and man, I did not get enough sleep last night to be emotionally or physically capable of sitting alone in my classroom for an hour, staring at the walls. So somehow, instead of falling asleep at my desk, I managed to … turn that into getting a lot of shit done? Sure, I’ll take it, because it is damn near unprecedented for it to be Monday evening and for me to have one class completely planned out for the rest of the week (okay, I haven’t done the photocopying, but that’s not a big deal) and one class planned out through Thursday. That’s not a thing.

Hell, I even did my after-school tutoring today instead of tomorrow at the request of the kids involved, so technically that’s done a day early too.

This must be exactly how Mick Jagger feels every day.

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Completely random observation: how is it possible that I have been writing on this blog for over a decade and not only do I 1) not have a “news” category, but 2) it never occurred to me that I didn’t have a “news” category until yesterday? I mean, granted, most of the posts that might get categorized as “news” end up under “politics,” but … damn, that just doesn’t feel right. Also not feeling right: adding a new category this late in the game. I think I’m stuck with my current ones forever.