Author: noemikjames

Today is my last Friday with students. The yearbooks are here (they look great!) The 8th graders are rapidly unraveling. A camp will be in my classroom this sum...

May is officially in the rear view and now it’s time for June. Unfortunately June is going to be crazy too! Hopefully it will be a more fun crazy. I have someth...

Part of why I feel DONE right now was that every day this week was marked by a pretty significant bummer. By the end of the week, I felt pretty run down. Monday...

It’s almost June and I am hitting the wall. Hard. This happens every year. I thought this year might be different, because a lot of obligations that were really...

It’s Monday night but it’s still the weekend! I’m so glad it’s a three day weekend. Only one of the last three weeks of school is five d...

You all know how much I hate Thursdays. It’s the worst day. I have four 85-minute classes and no prep period. It’s just the longest slog and I’m so done by the ...

We ordered the yearbook this morning. I can’t believe it’s finally done! Actually I can, because it wasn’t a sprint to the finish line this ye...

I finally went back to PT this week. It had been five weeks since my last appointment (he was sick and we had to reschedule) and I was itching to go in because ...

I’m writing on my blog from my computer! I haven’t done that in over a month! This is big news! I’m also on the elliptical! I’ve missed writing blog...

Yesterday I did not manage to workout. I didn’t feel great about it, and in an attempt to quell my disappointment I pulled up the Peloton app to choose my Wedne...