End of a very long week

Yesterday, the bus took about an hour to drop us off at the Hilton after school after travailing around major traffic and construction projects (normal time is 35 minutes).  I did not follow my normal routine in the gym but headed for the beach where I plopped down on a chaise lounge and fell asleep for 45 minutes as the sun quickly set.  Coming home, it was a relief to enter a clean apartment, free of the dust that plagues us.  I appreciate Margaret more and more but I don't have the energy to keep up with it all.

It's an understatement to just say it was a long week.  The week before was five days of running in all directions with student crises, parent meetings, and a growing stack of paperwork.  This week which while busy did not have the "emergency" feel, but was also fraught with some heavy considerations.

We make hundreds if not thousands of decisions a day, I'm told.  I usually have no problem deciding what to eat.  Most come naturally, some require thought, and a few are taxing like the two serious ethical dilemmas that found me.  One involved a student who was suspended and is also applying early decision to a highly selective college.  This will not be resolved until I talk with her next week, but I know what I need to do.  The other is much more complex involving my employer asking me to do something I am not comfortable with.  Nothing illegal, mind you, but that will take much longer to figure out my course of action.  Fortunately I think I have some time. 

Russ also had some challenging interactions with students, and talking about all of this at home in the short amount of time we spend together wore us out.  I think we went to bed at 7:30 a couple of times.  Russ was getting over a cold, and I had a migraine on two days.  Time to move past this week!

Mom and Dad are on the same time zone, having arrived in Turkey yesterday, but we have not spoken to them yet.  Tonight is a big social night and we are expecting 50 people over for happy hour but it will be short-lived at our place before we move on to the next apartment.  I think tomorrow I will hit the gym but also crash at the beach again.