Week 11 proceeding. Two full calendar months down. First principal evaluation down. First parent-teacher conferences, down. First quarter, down. Two concerts, one Broadway musical slept through, one ballgame missed altogether. Stress and all its manifestations plaguing. Survival in the face of sheer exhaustion. Working seven days a week, taking home* less than $20k per year, loving it all, despite the apparent disinclination to write a complete sentence. But WordPress has mapped my domain name here, and for that I’m a happy camper. ‘Tis the little things…

*by that I mean my net pay. actual salary is decent, but there are so many deductions, mainly for insurance.