The Sun is Shining!

Time: 8:07

Energy Level: High

Positives for the day: Three more classes left

Physically I feel: Very well

Mentally I feel: Excellent

Not counting today, I have three classes left! I am a bit taken aback to realize that I have to prepare a 3 to 5 minute talk in Italian AND write a 5 page reflective essay in that time. The subject of both of them has to be the teaching of the fourth graders which I am not even going to do until the 27th! Eeeep! I am really slacking off in these last few weeks and I know I am not going to get my usual A in this class. Oh, well, it is not important.

{watches regular readers faint and fall to the ground}

 Ummm, yes, this is ME — the erstwhile Super Student saying this!   I have been working quite hard and with great success, I think, in convincing myself that grades are not important at this time in my life. These days I am not trying to make A’s so that my father will love me–which was the original source of my extreme focus on grades. Why I am back in school at this time in my life is because I enjoy learning so the things that are important are the learning itself, enjoying what I am doing  and not being excessively stressed. Mind you, I think a little stress is not at all a bad thing. Yes, I am a bit stressed at the thought of having to construct a five-page essay {In English} AND a talk {in Italian} in the short time I will have after I give the lesson, but it is something that I KNOW I can do, and indeed, am mentally doing even as I write this.

For example,  I got my cards back from the last talk I gave and I can use them as the basis of this new one because both talks are on the same subject. The major part of the essay is about what i actually did so that can’t be done until I do it which won’t be until the 27th but the philosophical reflective part I could do right now and will probably start tomorrow.
 Positives for today:

• The sun is shining and I am amazed how much my spirts are lifted.
• my missing software should arrive tomorrow.
• I did reasonably well in portion control yesterday which is an incentive to continue today
• I get to drive my new car today.
• Look down–new quote. It came in this morning’s email and I immediately loved it.
• the grammar homework I hand in today is the last for the year…

QUOTATION: If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!

Jonathan Winters

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