Daylight Savings,Tutoring, & Square Pie Guys
Daylight savings has rolled back around and ya girl is exhausted. I’m grateful for the extra Vitamin D but I’m just so tired. Those first few days after a time change always feel so weird. I’m sleepier than usual, but somehow slightly more energized. Like this morning I didn’t want to get up and get ready for work but still managed to make myself breakfast (I don’t normally do that) and get to work on time. I also didn’t have the “Sunday Scaries” yesterday either. That debilitating feeling of existential dread that work is looming on the horizon. My boyfriend said it’s probably because we often spend our Sundays sleeping in or doomscrolling in bed. I have no shame in my lazy Sunday game, but I’m sure the science is sound regarding the correlation between doomscrolling and feeling like garbage the next day. I actually spent Sunday prepping for a tutoring session and meeting my student. I hadn’t tutored since I started my masters degree program during the pandemic and I forgot how much I enjoyed it. I don’t get to do enough one on one instruction with my classroom students because our class sizes are insane. But being able to sit with one student and give them the attention they need just hits different. They were super shy at first but left that meeting ready to hang out again next weekend. Knowing that I’ve helped a student increase their confidence probably scared my Sunday Scaries away. I also got to visit a library I had never been to before, it was huge. Almost couldn’t find the study room I had reserved. After the tutoring session, my boyfriend took me and our kiddo to grab some food. We ended up at a Square Pie Guys Pizza spot and we all agreed that that was the best choice. My son has always been a picky eater but seeing him enjoy food (without taking things off of it) was such a sight to see. Maybe the cure for the Sunday Scaries is just getting out and doing stuff with people I love. Who would’ve thought?
On another note, I’ve missed so much work due to my knees. I initially hurt my right knee back in July but it got worse when I returned to work. Our main elevator is broken so I have to walk all the way to the back of the building to access the working one. That walk takes up so much of my day that I often just take the stairs to get it over with. Naturally thats the worst thing I can do for my knee and it leads to my knee swelling and that’s what ultimately causes me to miss work. I started using a walking stick to help me back in November and it’s helped a lot but doesn’t do much for the swelling. Also, my right knee isn’t the only one causing me problems. My left knee is showing the same issues. My hypermobility is coming back to bite me. I’m hoping that I can find another school that is more disability friendly in the fall.