I had this whole long post I was going to write, but I decided to cancel that and simply say that work is better this week. All of last week's stress was magnified because I was babysitting for my friend's six children while she and her husband were in the Virgin Islands for a week--I got to play mom for awhile. Really, it just took me back to the days of being the oldest sibling at home with all my sisters busy and needing a chauffer. But I'm glad that I could give the kids back at the end of the week and return to my "normal" lifestyle.

I did realize more and more how much I need other people (especially those my own age) in order to get re-energized. I am an total extrovert in the Myers-Briggs sense of the word.

I think I'm also able to get through this next week at work even with all the difficulties of the past week (email me if you want more details) because I know Thanksgiving is just around the corner. We have half days Thursday and Friday this week because of parent/teacher conferences, and then we have all of next week off. We had built two hurricane make-up days (like snow-days for all you northerners) into our schedule just in case something happened, but since nothing did (hallelujah), we just get a longer Thanksgiving break (praise the Lord). Apparently this is the paragraph of parenthetical expressions (good thing I just taught that in 8th grade grammer).

I would also just like to add that I can't get enough of Ryan Adams, and that NPR podcasts are pretty awesome.