R&R

It's holidays again. Early in the second week. I have blogged about the holidays before. There is such a weird balance between the work to be done as a teacher - the large pile I inevitably leave until the holidays - and the need to rest and take a break from the life of being a teacher in during the term.
I am feeling a bit flat today. I seem to get like this often in the holidays - when the lack of contact, from being around 150+ people every day seems to be a little over whelming.

I wonder if other teachers feel the weird sense of imbalance - I feel guilty when I am not doing work for school, but then when I do approach it, a sense of being really fatigued early with it.

One way of combating this is productive procrastination. I have being enjoying doing things that help with a productive teacher life that may not be directly addressing the 'pile of doom'. Today - I did alot of spring cleaning around the house. I have also being really loving getting into some work on grammar and punctuation - to feel more armed and equipped with teaching these rules to others. I enjoy thinking through the next units of teaching and how I may deliver these to the students.

I have no real purpose for this blog post. I guess I just needed to process the seesaw in the brain of 'what next', 'what should I be doing now', 'can I really watch a little TV'. So I move forward again - just hoping to keep the balance in check.