Budgeting my time

I am really learning how to budget my time. It is taking me awhile to get into the groove with 3 courses and a full time teaching job, but I think I am slowly getting the hang of it. I think I may have to give up TV in order to get more done but hopefully I won't have to. This weekend I spent over 8 hours grading papers. I have decided that waiting until the weekend to grade won't work anymore. I am going to have to grade a little every night. I am making a schedule of the work I need to do and when the due dates are. Hopefully in the future I won't have to work right up to the last minute to get assignments in on time.

Stress, Stress, Stress

The stress of everything is really starting to hit me. I took today off of school so I can work on course work. I finally finished the textbook just as the professor extended the quiz deadline. At least I know I have one thing done for the course. My other course has our first paper due tomorrow before midnight. I might have it done in time if I can find where I put the budget for our school library. Every time I think I have all of my papers in one place, one of the papers turns up missing. I know this paper has already been extended, but I do love to procrastinate. Well, I guess I've goofed off enough for now back to the grindstone.

Climbing and climbing in numbers

My class count is finally climbing so that I am close in number to the rest of 4th grade. I had two new students added within 2 hours today!! This is a little insane, but it does save on repeating the same information over and over again to the new students. My class is turning into a bunch of chatter boxes. I keep hoping that it will improve, but even with taking away privileges, they just keep talking.

At least my grad work is starting to not seem so overwhelming. It is still a lot of work, and I may not take 2 classes at the same time again while school is in session (this will mean that it takes longer to graduate). If I survive this I may just take a chance again!!

Back to the grind of grading papers!

New Vehicle

YEA!!!!! I have purchased my very first brand new vehicle. I finally gave up on the Buick when it started breaking down on the way home from school on Thursday. I went shopping over the weekend and purchased my Equinox on Monday. It is a 2008 and has soooooo many features I could never dream of on my old piece of junk. I love the fact that it has remote start! All I have to do is push the button and the car starts without me in it. This is sooooooooooooooo wonderful when the heat of Texas just about kills you. The air turns on and once I put the key in the ignition the radio and everything else comes on as normal. The only disappointing thing is I have to take it in overnight later this week so they can fix 2 problems with the paint. Oh well, at least I now know I won't have to worry if my car will start from on day to the next. I will post a picture of it later this week.