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Can you tell I've been tired lately?  You may not have realized it, but exhaustion is just about the only thing that can keep me from writing to you about my life.  Being busy, no.  Being gone...okay, maybe.  But being tired is the biggest thing that stands in the way of updates.

I don't really have all that much to tell you other than that I've been incredibly worn down recently.  I'm ready for a break from school.  We don't have any breaks from Labor Day all the way through the end of the grading period, so September 4th through October 28th.  No break.  And I know that's the way real people with real jobs have it--but how many real people with real jobs spend ten hours at their job each day without even so much as a break for lunch, and then sometimes take work home, especially on weekends?  Nonstop, people.  My job is nonstop.

There's been a bit of a hullabaloo about some new documentary called "Waiting for Superman," and it supposedly hates on the teaching profession in a not-so-subtle way.  A coworker of mine sent out a hilarious email today comparing teachers to the superhero, us winning out just about every time.  Seriously, Superman.  I don't think you have the skillz for this.  Please try it for a day and tell me what you think (and no, you can't try it on vocab day or journal day...but you still might not do so hot even then).  You know what, better yet, how about the director of the documentary tries to do my job for a day?  Make a documentary about THAT, sir.  I think you wouldn't have the energy left over to splice and dice your footage to make it how you want it.

Can you tell my brain function is poor right now?  Can you read in my writing style that I'm not as well able to organize my thoughts in my head before writing them?  Can you see how my writing is going in circles?

If you can't, it's because you didn't have me as your writing teacher.  Believe me, I could teach you a thing or two about writing.  As long as all my time isn't taken up by discipline and evaluations and grading and professional development, that is.

I'm going to bed before this gets any worse.