Forced Vacation

Swine '09 - thats what the students have dubbed it. We are on vacation until March 13. Yes forced vacation. I have very mixed feelings. I feel like they have jumped the gun. There isn't this huge outbreak that they had anticipated and yet they are closing very single school in the district. Over 38,000 students are now out of school until at least March 13. We actually could be out of school longer.

After I get over the shock of not being at school I am hoping I start enjoing the time off. I would like to get some things done around the house, but what? I can't do to much, I will get tired and my hip will start hurting, So I am limited at what it is I can do. Maybe that is part of the downer for me. I am almost afraid of what my limitations might be. Afraid of finding them.

Sounds nuts, I know. Afraid of finding my limitations. I don't want to find them. I don't want to acknowledge they are there. I feel the arthritis will win. I am not ready to accept that.

There are some things around the house that I can get done. Maybe I should make a list. Then I can tackle them one at a time and see the progress I am making. I don't know. Right now I just have this I don't know feeling. I don't know what to do. I don't know why I feel blah.

I could take the time to write out some lesson plans. Then I stop and think why? Why should I write out lesson plans for classes I am not sure I am going to be teaching. We have been trying to move to Austin, which means I wouldn't even be working with the same district, let alone the same subjects. So my thought is why prepare when I am not sure what or where I am going to be teaching. I might not even be teaching.

Another update from our County Health Leader - what an idiot! He tries to make jokes that no one laughs at. 80 daycares have closed, the entire school district has closed, and he just mentions that the number everyone is flipping out about is a rolling number meaning it never goes down!

PANIC! MORONS!