Progress

Happy Sunday!  I'm making progress-- not just on the garden, but in my other life, too, that of a high school teacher.  I teach math and pre-engineering and this school year is coming to its close!  We're going to get out early this year-- May 23rd to be exact, almost one month from today.  The craziest part is, I really only have one week of "new material" lessons left to go.  After that the kids start prepping for their end-of-the-year speeches (we call them Presentations of Learning, or POL's).  Then they give their POL's, prep for final exams,  and take final exams.  Voila!  School year, complete.  I am so ready to have a life and mental space of my own again.  During the school year I spend so much time thinking about stuff for class, working on stuff for class, then rethinking stuff for class, it hardly seems like I do much else.  I know it's bad when my husband talks on the phone to his family and they ask what I'm up to and he replies "Oh, you know, school stuff, she's really busy," and those are the only words that describe my life.  :(  I've done a little better this year trying to take more time for myself.  I started to play Skyrim after my husband got it for Christmas and that's really helped.  Sometimes I rebel and instead of grading or planning I'll lose myself in a video game for a couple of hours.  In fact, my goal this morning is to grade some engineering papers, then reward myself with a little Skyrim.  I'll have to post more about my gaming life some other time.

To wrap this up, here's the most recent picture of my progress on the garden bed-- they pyramid is starting to take shape!