It was pretty hard getting up and getting motivated to go in today. All sorts of free-floating anxiety, borderline panic mode. Even asking myself "what is the worst that could happen" didn't help much. But, once I was there, back into the routine, things smoothed out. Lessons went fine, kids behaved acceptably, and by the end of the day I was OK and even halfway settled for the rest of the week.
The only sour note is the fallout from the missed mandatory new teacher sessions. Turns out, I did make it to one (the one I was informed of the day before, verbally), but the other, I never seem to have made it onto the right email list. Which would normally be OK to me, except the person in charge then drops the bomb on me - for missing a mandatory session, I get docked a day's pay. Nice. She is working on getting me into another session so I am not penalized, but I am not real pleased with this turn of events. Then again, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have a veteran teacher new to the district taking what are essentially remedial classes on teaching, designed for brand-new teachers. On the other hand, knowing the potential quality of some Memphis City School teachers, I can't really blame them.
Trivia was horrendous. Multiple rounds of terrible questions with no clues of answers - even so we were in 3rd place before the final question. We wagered no points, though, and nobody stayed to even hear the results.
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