So I don’t think I slept a lot last night. I tried everything. I exercised, but not too late. I mediated…really badly, honestly though. I tried ambient night noise. Nope. That made me anxious. I took melatonin, which usually doesn’t work, but nothing else was working either. I hate nights like that. I mean, it was hot and I had to close the windows because the pup was growling and barking at anything in a 5-mile radius that made noise. Today will be slightly cooler, and then it will really cool off, hallelujah. And based on the sleep I didn’t do last night, I should be exhausted by tonight, yeah? I’m hoping.
School yesterday was stressful. I suspect a lot of the to-do list made it to nighttime post-meditation brain and that wasn’t helping. The overwhelm hit hard…but I have a plan that I’m going to try to stick to, assuming there isn’t more shit waiting to fall into my lap. Teachers are already losing prep periods to cover absent teachers. Today, I have an 8th-grade meeting that I really need to happen or I don’t know what I’m doing next week (minor issue), plus I need to go do the mail and watering for my parents…after pilates. Still need to get through three classes of grading last week’s assignment, which I would normally bang through before or just after school, but that time gets eaten up by new/sub science teachers needing me, which is fine, except it’s part of the overwhelm. I know it will get better. It’s just a long way away. At least I’m short on meetings this week, although I realized yesterday that there’s an informal thing I really should do tomorrow. Ugh. For school. Of course.
Anyway, so Monday, I managed an hour of ironing…mostly getting all those robes ironed down and then starting Gorsuch’s other parts. I did his shirt and tie, his shoes, etc. I left his face and hands and a single ankle for Tuesday night.
You can see all his hand/face pieces laid out on the left. Above the box are all the other hand/face piles for each of the justices so far. Last night, I ironed his face, hands, and that single ankle.
He’s a super pale guy. But I also found myself googling “gorsuch eye color” last night, which is beyond weird. It was hazel green. Couldn’t tell from the photos.
Then I laid out Alito’s pieces. He has a fish, so I ironed that.
I made it pink and purple. Because I could. I only got about 32 minutes of ironing last night. I had a contract to fill out for an art thing, plus I needed to get one class of that assignment graded. I tried to get home early to go to the gym, but got side-tracked by humans and then needed to make a video and a post, etc. Not getting a lot of help on that stuff, so yeah. But after being interrupted three times, I finally got the video done! Woohoo! Even though it’s blurry, because whatever the problem is with my doc cam, it’s still a problem after replacing everything in the room. I should bring a tripod today. I need to make some more videos for a kid who will be out of my class. His fault, but I want him to succeed. My fault? Huh. Sigh.
Here’s the box in its current state of not fullness.
I did go to the gym, mostly to read my book. I needed it. So home late, dinner late, everything late. Tonight will be the same. It’ll probably be 7 before I get home from watering. At least I’m not cooking tonight.
That might be my retirement dream job right there. Except I’m not sure I’ll want to be around kids for a while.
OK. Make videos today. Bring a charger because my phone isn’t holding a charge and someone stole the charger out of my classroom. Labs all day. Walk walk walk help help help. Then exercise, grade stuff, iron Alito’s face, move on to Thomas. The faces aren’t that hard. That’s a plus. I was freaked out about them, but it wasn’t bad. Men’s lips. Men’s lips are complicated colors for sure. Gonna leave you with that.
Kathy Nida 