Been busy at work lately, every weekend and vacation is a blessing.
Work this year is fucking stressful.
Every day I arrive at work at 7:05 to eat breakfast, brush my teeth, and use the bathroom before my first class starts at 8. I start actually working at 7:45 and have not been getting out of work till about 5:30 or 6:30 in the evening. There are some exceptions. Fridays I usually finish at 3:30 and leave right away. But every other day I am busy for almost 10 hours.
This is partially because this year I have four classes to teach while last two years I only had three. While I still only have 46 students I still have less time to grade and plan since I teach four classes. I am coplanning this year which js new because now there is another honors bio teacher besides me. I have two biweekly minute advisories that eat up 20 minutes 4 duty assignments that waste more of my precious time and energy. Additionally on Tuesdays I have student hours, Wednesdays I advise the bio club, and Thursdays there are meetings. It is getting old real fast.
This has been going on for the last few weeks and I am getting frustrated because it means less time and energy to go to the gym. In fact I have not had a consistent gym routine since I returned from summer vacation. I come home so tired every day and at this point I am hoping I can at least get out early on Mondays and Fridays starting next week. I was further frustrated when I was forced to go into the building for work during a typhoon on September 6th. While it was only a yellow warning and the weather was mostly clear it was still irritating that the students were kept at home and I still had to go in. No other school required their teachers to come into the building to teach online, only ours.
At least I have some respite on weekends and holidays.
I have done some hashing in the last two weeks and some traveling.
Here are photos from the hash on September 7th. I wasn't originally planning to go but decided to at the last minute since my friend Maria, who I hadn't seen in a few months, was going.
It was a nice hash. I got a bit tipsy and ate dinner with the hash before heading home.
The following week of work was no better and it felt even longer since we were anticipating a holiday.
From September 14-17 Faye and I went to Cebu since we had off for the mid Autumn Festival.
We spent the majority of the trip being pretty lazy. Saturday night we got dinner and went to a big mall.
Then sunday we linked up with the Cebu hashers but the trail got shortened to a 2.2km walk on the road due to heavy rain. So we just hung out and ate lunch and drank beer, took the short walk, then went back to town for dinner.
Monday Faye wasn't feeling great so I just hung out at the beach while she rested.
It was outstanding. I took some video at the beach on my go-pro which I will upload later. For now just adding the photos from my phone.
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