sleepy, grumpy, and dopey.

I'm sitting here on my very sore ass, exhausted, frustrated, and anxious.

Exhausted due to the 27 nine-year-olds I run around with all day (today I caught myself trying to unlock my classroom door from the inside, can you say dopey??). Frustrated with the ongoing frat party that my house has become in a matter of days. And the anxieties are laying themselves on thick. I sit and worry about:
- what I forgot to do for the following day
- how I'm going to bring those 7 students up from a second grade level to a fourth grade level
- when I'm going to catch up on all the sleep I'm losing due to said anxieties and frat parties

And the vicious cycle continues every night before bed.

But I must mention that I've decided to go out for roller derby once again. First practice was last night. Felt so rad to be back out on my skates. I'm sore as ever today but it feels good. Biggie Brawlz is back in action folks.

I don't have the energy necessary to throw some big, reflective, inspirational piece at you about how my summer changed my life. But I'm sure you can imagine based on all those pictures and awesome things I did. Life is good people. Even when the guys across the hall are bumping their house music and shouting at the TV with the football game blaring in the background. And their VOICES! They just talk so LOUD!! I wish they could take a lesson from my fourth grade class and learn what the hell an inside voice is. Good Lord.

No matter how tired and frustrated I am in this moment, I am still joyful in the midst. At least for the moment.