Jamie
3/19/2019
11:35:09 AM | |  | | | Yes Mel, I felt just like that. |
Hello, all.
I just finished two marathon night’s worth of grading junior research paper rough drafts...almost 50 of them! My little cherubs had to draw parallels between the Salem witchcraft trials (we just finished studying “The Crucible”) to another modern “witch hunt.”
My experience the past two days taught me a few things:
#1: We are all experiencing a “crucible,” the test of our lives, by fighting Morgellons or Lyme or both.
#2: I’d like to start a “witch hunt” of my own...to find the person(s) responsible for these terrible scourges that have made all of our lives so darn difficult!
#3: Even six months ago, I would NOT have had the stamina to spend 8 hours, both days, grading pretty much non-stop. It made me pause. The “old Jamie” could do that. The “new Jamie”? Well, not normally...so, I am choosing to interpret that as a sign of progress in the right direction...that I am developing more stamina due to the protocol and all of my ongoing efforts to plow myself through the recovery process.
#4: That the community on this forum is amazing and is largely responsible for why I have made such substantial progress recently.
#5: I am starting to think less about “being” sick because I am “feeling” less sick.
#6: I need to retire because I don’t WANT to grade 50 research papers in two days after 31 years of relentless work!
#7: I really do love my students.
#8: It’s 11:10 pm, and the WPS is about to kick in.
#9: I hope the rest of you are asleep, and I am the only one up!
#10: Mel will be mad that I am still awake, so I will expect a tongue-lashing.
I continue to pray for all of us!
Jamie |
