Spring Cleaning

Today was the last day of school before spring break. I find that leaving school takes FOREVER. It's like when I was in high school and my room was flooded with shoes, clothes, books, backpacks, purses, and other junk and mom would tell me to clean my room or else some sort of big consequence would happen. I would sit down and start the process, but every other minute I was sidetracked by some other starting point in the room. This made the process even longer because I started over 900 times. My desk at school is very much the same. I think I'm about to leave school... and then I try to make my desk look a little bit better before I leave. But there is always one more stack to go through and then one more paper to grade. Then one more stack to relocate and another one to sort into student mailboxes.

And then I'm like "Ooooohhhhhh THIS is why my teachers' desks always looked like a recycling bin threw up on it. And why they ALWAYS claimed to not have papers I was positive I turned in." But that won't happen to me. I'm determined. Today when I started this process to leave, this is what my desk looked like.

But as I went through paper by paper, I just kept going. I didn't really have anywhere to be today, so no reason to leave at a decent hour.

So I went through stack...

by stack...

by stack...

post-its, paper clips, notes, plans, everything.

Until it looked like this...

And then I let myself leave. Everything is ready for the week I come back. I have every subject planned, and all the copies made for Monday. I don't even have to think about school...unless I choose to blog about it while I'm home.

In Memphis.

Where it's warm.


More from me later in the week... most likely :)