It's only Wednesday?

I'm catching on: finally picked up my mail today. Well, I have a caveat at Lakeville South High School since I don't have a mailbox there yet (notice that I'm not rallying the troops for one, either... that would mean I would be responsible for even more papers to keep track of). The sweet secretary Jean over here at North High School kindly reminded me to pick up my mail. I wish I could say that it was on my radar, but honestly, the thought never occurred to me, "I have a mailbox. Pick up your mail." You think I'm crazy, but it's funny the things that have been topping my priority list these last three days.

To no surprise, my passenger side has morphed into my traveling teacher's trash receptacle. The current tally: 3 lunchable containers, 4 nutri-grain bar wrappers, 1 plastic bag, and 1 empty McDonald's 16oz coffee cup.

Here's my teaching schedule:
Periods 1 & 2: Goals at Lakeville South High School
3: Travel to North High School/lunch/prep time
4: Academic Writing
5: Goals
6: Creative Writing

Here's my teaching schedule, the unedited version:
1 & 2: "Listen kiddos, read a novel, because I don't have your stuff yet."
3: Jet to the bathroom, pack up my crap, speedwalk through the high school, jump into my car, unwrap lunchable, put car in gear, simultaneously drive, eat, and shout sassy comments to slow drivers ("Hey, drive faster lady, I'm trying to educate your children, here!"), enter Lakeville North, swing by the copy room for Kristi and Nancy to make all my copies that I need... uh... next hour, unlock room, plan, visit, visit, plan, stare at wall thinking of lesson plan ideas, wonder how I'm going to make it through the day.
4: This is the class period where I am seriously pretending like I know what I'm doing. This week, they're writing a personal essay. Next week? You think I know what I'm doing next week?
5: "If I see your cell phone one more time..."
6: Breath-of-fresh-air class. Fishbowl discussion today, kids got philosophical, wrote some cool poems in the style of Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B."

Tonight I start volunteering as a leader at my church. I'll be co-leading a group of 8th grade girls through confirmation. I decided that if I start right away with that commitment, it will just be a natural part of my schedule. I don't want to turn into a TOTAL hermit, yah know...