HELP

Work is winning.

Today's workout plans call for a run before I'm teaching next at 5, but I think that'll have to go by the wayside, as there's not enough time to have a proper run in, get changed, et al. I didn't get to do yesterday's weights. I didn't feel like doing any stretching. If I'm lucky I might be able to do some stepping in the evening. There's also stuff to prepare for next week, materials to get ready to photocopy... the consequences of having about 80 individual students to teach, of various standards, and each requiring different lesson materials. This week being the first full week back at work, I've really felt it. I've slept 10 hours each on two different nights. I'm a weakling, I know.

One mundane problem I have to tackle is the problem of lunch. My students come to me in twenty-minute intervals for their individual lessons, and in order to fit them in students within their school day (they cannot have lessons after school), I have to place them one after another. Which, three days a week, means lunch is not scheduled, and I may have to teach six-and-a-half hours before getting a break. That's right. A break. One to make a pit stop. Wednesday is the afore-mentioned terrible day where work seemingly becomes an exercise in surival: get in as many calories as possible before work, bladder control, try not to drink too much during work for fear of loss of bladder control, pray for students to be afflicted with terrible diseases and be absent... which means by the time I'm off work I haven't really eaten or drunk properly, and then I have to think about running with a bloated stomach in the time I have free between students I teach at home. If anyone has a similar problem like this - long hours without a break - can you tell me so I can stop moaning about it.

Back to the daily grind - and hopefully I'll be able to tell you later that work didn't swallow my run! Maybe I should have aimed to hit #53 or something instead of #50? Susan, sorry to disappoint you, love, but you who run and do boobcamp even when you're tired and have a cold, are way behind me in the voting for "Weenie award". I think I pretty much have that in the bag. (The correct one too.)