Stop DROP and roll...

I just sent this off to a friend of mine and thought it would be a good little blog snippet to summarize things lately:

"Was I suicidal and/or drunk when I thought I could teach summer school full-time in DC (yes DC), take 2 online courses outside of GW, take a night class 2 days a week at GW, all while looking for a job next year, walking my new dog, vacuuming up all of the HAIR that is everywhere (LOL - 1 dead vacuum cleaner and counting) and convincing Eric that I am still alive, even though he sleeps next to me at night! I've been a nervous wreck, zombie that walks about the house sputtering gibberish relating to "Teacher Leadership and School Change," the amount of spam the online course generates, and various obscenities."

Seriously, life has been just one big blog of bleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. I'm just toast. I've been going non-stop since last August and I need some breathing time.

LOL Finally I wised up and dropped one of the online courses like 3rd period French. 100s of pages of reading a week, emails flying back and forth, online reflections, case studies and yes, more than 40 messages a day disguised as "discussion" (read: SPAM generated by a large state university).

Serenity now! (insanity later!!!) So I don't finish my master's this summer, 1 course over the fall semester is better than 3 at once this summer.

I'm going to the dog park now - that is something worth doing!!! I love hanging out with the rest of the dog-owners in our hood!