Busy, Dizzy, Groggy

These are not the names of Snow White's three new dwarfs nor of Cinderella's.  These, however, are modifiers with which I can describe myself the past week.  And I was not aware of them until this morning when sheer exhaustion brought me 11 hours sleeping time.

I realized yesterday evening that since Saturday, the 6th of December, I haven't had a full night sleep. It's because I have to attend to all my roles: son, uncle, teacher, colleague, and student.

I went home to Cabanatuan the night of that Saturday after attending my MA class at the Ateneo to witness Mommy's installation as the regent of DMII Kapitan Pepe for the second year. 

I had to leave early morning of the 8th, Monday to be at Xavier with the High 4 students who were in school to practice for their Play Festival. 

I also had to find time to write my quota of LT questions for our High 1 team, as well as my classes on that year level's last quiz and summative quiz.  For the H4 Advanced, I prepared a quiz on the H4 plays, hunted down the script of the play that I wanted for their LT, scanned it, drafted the test questions based on it; and printed out the 16 page last reading for this quarter.

The H4 play festival also made me busy.  I planned the flow of the program, wrote a script for it, looked for emcees and performers for the intermission, coordinated with the three teachers in charge of the Regular-Advanced fused sections and borrowed the necessary equipments for the program.

On top of these, I was preparing for a group report for my MA class yesterday.

Lightheartedly, I now begin another week.  I had a good night out last Friday, I witnessed an enchanting wedding of a colleague, the plays based on the H4 Advanced three story lines won 1st, 2nd 3rd in the play festival, my classes with the first year were riotously funny, the quiz and LT questions were intelligent, at the very least; I saw a good movie and our report was well researched and therefore, well-received. 

It was a whirlwind of a week, but in the final analysis, I enjoyed being in the midst of it!