Lesson Four - Housekeeping, Sleep and Tardiness.

I woke up pretty late this morning, well technically I woke up this afternoon. It was about 12:30pm when I woke, but that's not surprising considering I didn't sleep until 5am that same morning. I can't afford to do that again, because I have work at 11:30am tomorrow. It's going to be a long day, considering that it will be a Sunday and that we are getting closer and closer to Christmas. I can't believe how fast the year has gone by. It seems like a short while, but we're nearly out of 2006 and into 2007.
Today I had an immense task to accomplish, and it still is not completed. It is a task filled with more horrors than the human mind can fathom. It would give the bravest of men nightmares for years to come. Many have tried to look without fear, but it breaks them every time. This is a task for no ordinary human, and yet today I chose to attempt to accomplish it.

I had to clean my room.

A bit anti-climactic? If you answered yes, then you haven't seen my room. I don't know what it was, I am usually very unmotivated when it comes to chores and housekeeping. I'm pretty lazy when it comes to that. However today I was more motivated to actually do something about it. Surprisingly I got a fair bit done. A ton of rubbish went into the bin, papers, magazines and other junk that I don't need anymore. But the real problem that arose from my cleaning was the mountain of teaching resources that I found scattered on my desk, on the floor and on my shelves. Where am I going to put this stuff?

Lesson: Teachers need resources.

Lesson within lesson: Teachers need space. Lots of space.

It looks like I am going to have to sort these things out and actually start preparing for the big day when I actually have to start using and filing these resources for future use with my career. I also am running out of room for all my DVDs, I have well over 100 now, and there is just no room for them all... I really need to re-do my room. I have to try and go for a minimalist approach, but also have room for all my stuff... God, I am asking the impossible aren't I?

I have become more of an owl lately. I have been going to sleep close to sunrise more and more lately. That's not a good thing, considering that I work during the day anyways. I guess I can partially blame Youtube and the Naruto anime for that. It is just getting so good! Every single episode EVER is on Youtube and I have been watching at least ten a night, which is a good several hours at the very least. No wonder I have been going to bed so late. Oh well, I have watched about ten episodes tonight, and it's only 1:20am.

Lesson: Too much anime is a good thing, but it is not good for your sleep pattern.

I need to go to sleep as soon as I finish posting this entry. Because I need to get to work on time. My manager made a comment that I am always late. That's crap. But I know that lately I have been arriving five - ten minutes late, recently. One time I was an hour late, but that was because I thought I started at 6pm instead of 5pm. The roster and times have changed so frequently lately, so I cannot say I blame myself anyways.

I also had this real nasty headache but it seems to have subsided now. I think it was from watching all that stuff on a computer screen, I am going to have to discipline myself and try to only watch for a bit. I have been spending way too much time watching that anime lately.
Hopefully tomorrow won't be too much of a pain in the ass. I hate working weekends at the moment, we get far too many annoying customers than good ones. Fingers crossed.

Take care of yourselves.

James