I remember when I was working and looking forward to Friday afternoons and dreading Sunday evenings. I paid no attention to weekends when I wasn’t working. I am now in a very strange liminal space. I am working but not getting a paycheck. I also now work seven days a week when previously, for pay, I worked five days a week.

So I am aware, like before, of when it’s Friday afternoon or Sunday evening. But I don’t look forward to Fridays or dread Sundays because, as I just mentioned, I work seven days a week. One day just follows another.

I hope in the near future to get weekends off. But then most likely the look forward to/dread cycle will again rear its ugly head.

I do dread some days, not because they are the days in which everyone decompresses and recompresses, but because they are days in which I am in charge and have to make decisions.

Ideas days had gone out the window, or so I thought. I had two major ideas today, and this put a damper on the dreads. My first idea, which was math related, is one I’ll take action on, next week. I first thought, why don’t I keep a math journal, and in it reflect upon my having math anxiety and as well, the reasons for it. I can also, in this journal, use writing to problem solve. I am going to share this idea with Skye, my math teacher, and see if I can get him interested in this.

Then I began thinking about my interest in writing across the curriculum – maybe sometime we can get students to use journals to problem solve, on a mathematical and a personal level. I’m going to begin by keeping a math journal. I actually came up with a problem, and this is going to be my first entry.

My second idea came to me as I was getting ready for the high schoolers to arrive. I sat them down and ran it by them when they did appear. I said that we should look into sending books to Kenya. I added that we might first send books to villages. So we began by boxing up the ten boxes of books that are going to Bethel.

Lexi and Melissa were both excited about the prospect of doing this. I am going to see if we can Zoom with Martha who teaches in Kenya and is in need of books for her school. Melissa and Lexi are going to both look into sending the books via DHL, a shipping company. If we must, we can arrange for a fundraiser and get the money this way.

Two big ideas. I never have thought of myself as a person who makes things happen – but this is what’s happening. Pause, pause. I like these two ideas because they are grounded in reality and could come to be.

I was glad to have an ideas day. I was in the midst of a dry spell. They may have come about because of yesterday and my getting the writing group going.

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