I’m having a difficult time summoning enthusiasm about anything, even though Friday afternoon has finally arrived. Work is done for the week. I will have two days away from that place.

Just for the record: the state budget department recommended this week that the Department of Education reduce its administrative overhead by ten percent. The Department of Education responded by saying they would try to reduce administrative overhead by two percent, and would make up the difference by cutting special education services. I am currently working as a special education teacher. In my class I currently service twelve students in the pull-out setting, by myself; the educational assistant assigned to my classroom assists students in the general education setting. Meanwhile, the general education teachers have… twelve or thirteen students in their classes. Yes, the classes where the special education assistant is assisting. Another SPED teacher has fourteen pull-out students, compared to, y’know, thirteen kids in the general ed setting. But the DOE  wants to reduce SPED staffing even further.

Oh, and this was fun: this is a sentence from the agenda to our most recent faculty meeting: “Social Media – Higher ups are reviewing your social media sites.” Hello, #HIDOE, if you’re reading this, please tell me how I can get a promotion to a highly paid district level position where my job description is to spy on employee Facebook and Twitter accounts.

(I moved all my social media activity to MySpace; nobody will ever find me there!)

On the “making progress” front, I’m making no progress. Despite feeling a modicum of ambition earlier in the day, at this point all I feel like doing is sitting on the couch and watching TV and eating ice cream, which is probably what I’ll do after supper. As usual, my “plan” is to resume healthy eating and exercise… tomorrow morning.

I updated my “to do” list of around-the-house projects for this weekend.

I hope to continue reading a book I keep starting but never finishing, Adventure in Everything by Matthew Walker. My friend Holly, whom I’ve mentioned before, sent this book to me a couple of years ago. I’ve started reading it several times, then my adventureless life gets in the way and I have yet to finish it. I’m trying again. This time I will finish reading it, and ideally act upon some of the suggestions it offers.

According to the bathroom scale I weighed exactly 195 pounds today.