I tried stretching - that didn't work.
I tried coffee - it's not working yet.
I tried watching something funny on TV - that didn't work either.
After I got dressed, I just laid on the floor of my bedroom staring at the ceiling for like 8 minutes thinking about whatever, trying to motivate myself to get up and go to work. Luckily I wake up like an hour before I really have to leave, so I had time to waste, but I really did not want to come in.
I'm still sleepy and feeling incredibly lazy. But I really like my job. I think even teachers who love teaching feel this way, because we're humans. I don't think humans are meant to just do the same thing every day, over and over. Even though doing the same thing over and over will make you crazy good at something - playing a sport, playing a musical instrument, doing a job, being a great writer, making beautiful art, doing math well - if you practice, you get good, really good. But every day? It's like, come on, we need a break once in a while. Or maybe you can practice the thing every day, but do it at different TIMES every day. Like, it would be great if school started early on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, but then started later and ended later on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so you got a break to stay up late without feeling tired the next day. Or if you only took certain classes on some days, so you got a break from it. Or if you had some classes that were different and not just sitting in a desk. Or if some of your classes were in a different place than the same building. These are the kinds of changes I'd love to make for school so students could have a different experience than the same damn thing for like twelve years (maybe only like 7 years, because elementary school is different from middle and high school).
Anyway, those are my thoughts for this morning. Today in class, students need to start writing paragraphs to prove their claims and paragraphs to answer their questions in two different googledocs. I emailed everyone a helpful handout, but they also need to get the handout from their folder called "Writing a paragraph with evidence to prove a claim", and with those two handouts, I'm pretty sure they will understand what to do. I have some very skilled students who have been proving claims with evidence for years in school. But if anyone needs help, they should definitely email me and ask me.