Summer vs. the Other Nine Months

Its 10:30 a.m, and the rest of the country is hard at work, with one exception. The hardest working section of the   work force...teachers. Our days seem to have doubled in length. We get 48 hours instead of 24. We drink our morning coffee, slowly. Actually read the newspaper articles, instead of glancing at headlines.


It seems to be rewarding. Especially compared to the Other Nine Months, when chirping bluebirds become alarm clocks, and newspaper articles morph into group emails about faculty meetings. Our human forms turn into machinary,

I now present you the Robot Schedule:

• Wake up
• Determine teacher worthy outfit-Cool while adult, comfy while put together
• Throw together a lunch-More than likely grab a Lean Cuisine from the freezer
• Pretty up-Remember, you do not want to become the teacher that's let herself go.
• Kiss life partner-Don't forget this one! Will pay off later :)
• Exit home and avoid dog hair on black pants-New Olympic sport in Summer 2012
• Drive to work-Practice lesson plans, write lesson plans (no judge)
• Walk into building-obstacle course of young love, young hate, and chocolate milk
• Walk into classroom-Ahh! The serenity.
• Bell-Get to work
• Bell-Keep going
• Bell-One more time before lunch
• Bell-You are in the zone
• Lunch-When did Lean Cuisine instructions get so complex?
• Bell-Gear up energy
• Bell-Almost there
• Bell-wait for it, twenty minutes to go, five, four...
• The all to familiar line up at the door--
• Bell!!!
• Go home-Now what?

Overwhelming, isn't it? It is my new mission to tick off each of the Robot Steps and replace it with humanity. From Bell to Belle-if you will.