Impossible! December is TOMORROW!?!

All right, so I don't actually have any regrets about November, but that's only because I didn't realize I was in it. December. I guess the Christmas decorations and the dress rehearsals (for the Christmas program: I'm on vocal choir and finger-cymbal duty... bell choir is students only) and the tinsel in my hair should have tipped me off.

If I were a daily blogger instead of sitting somewhere around biweekly that might have helped too.

So it's the typical term-end rush, but kind of inverted. Or maybe a sin* curve + 1 instead of 1 over: the students breathe their mighty knowledges onto many pages and the teachers stick around to clean up the mess. School seems very untidy these days.

And yes, the adventures of the first-timer continue. Someone asked me in an email if I was finding a bit more of a routine. Yes, I've been routine-finding a bit. I've also been shortening the long hours and balancing my sanity better. That doesn't mean the occasional egregious error doesn't crop up, but we're making it through.

It's even, at the bottom of it all, kind of fun :)

So now I'm off to make Indian food with some fellow late-nighters... then it's back to the office for some quick emails and a lesson plan or two. Good times all around.

Let it be noted that when Lithuania snows, it's really beautiful.

Peace,
Jared

*pronounced "sine," not "sin." Math, not religion. Although aren't the two--? Never mind.