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This has been a difficult week. Tuesday I had to go into Ann Arbor for Aran's piano lesson and then drive home and make supper for everyone, oversee homework, deal with a number of kid issues, and suddenly it was time for bed.
Wednesday I lost my prep period when the department head descended on me over a big thing the English department is at loggerheads over so I had to stay after for an hour to get caught up. After I came home, I had to oversee the boys, get supper, walk Aran through a difficult homework assignment, compose a long email to Mackie's teacher about his behavior--he hadn't taken his medication that morning and was a terror in school all day and she was wondering what the hell was going on--and then it was suddenly time for bed.
Today I had to drive to Ann Arbor to take Aran to his psychiatrist to get his medication renewed, drive home, make a late supper, discover that Sasha was behind on his work in two of his classes, force him to get caught up, clean the kitchen (which hadn't been done properly in three days), read and comment on the lesson plans for next week my student teacher emailed me, and try to catch up on the enormous pile of email in my inbox.
Wednesday I lost my prep period when the department head descended on me over a big thing the English department is at loggerheads over so I had to stay after for an hour to get caught up. After I came home, I had to oversee the boys, get supper, walk Aran through a difficult homework assignment, compose a long email to Mackie's teacher about his behavior--he hadn't taken his medication that morning and was a terror in school all day and she was wondering what the hell was going on--and then it was suddenly time for bed.
Today I had to drive to Ann Arbor to take Aran to his psychiatrist to get his medication renewed, drive home, make a late supper, discover that Sasha was behind on his work in two of his classes, force him to get caught up, clean the kitchen (which hadn't been done properly in three days), read and comment on the lesson plans for next week my student teacher emailed me, and try to catch up on the enormous pile of email in my inbox.
Today I also fielded more email from Mackie's teacher, who was worried about how poor his reading skills are and how difficult it is for him to concentrate in class, so I reluctantly tracked down the special education coordinator for his school and wrote a letter formally requesting that he be tested for special needs eligibility. He's definitely ADHD, which is pretty much an automatic qualifier on a physical basis. So it looks like I'm going to be a single dad raising =three= special needs kids.
Next week I have a staff meeting and yet another trip to Ann Arbor on Monday, Aran's piano lesson on Tuesday, a speaking engagement in Dearborn on Wednesday, and Aran's IEP =and= a meeting with Sasha's teachers on Thursday.
And oh yeah--I still have a book due December 1.
I'm tired and burned out and scared the hell out of my mind because I don't know how long I can keep this up.
