"I'm in a bad mood, come back later"

If only I could hang a sign to that effect on my door this morning. I am in a terrible mood. Work is way overwhelming at the moment, not necessarily in a bad way, but still. Yesterday I was at school for 13 hours and at no time was I putzing around on the Internet, a typical reason for me to be at work longer than needed. Then I got home and worked on Econ lessons for almost 90 minutes. And they are good lessons and this project I'm doing for all of the Civics classes is awesome, but it is all just an awful lot of work.

So, I was mildly cranky last night, but I woke up this morning in a funk. I slept poorly last night b/c it is about 100 degrees in my little cave every night (my bedroom is tiny and my heater is almost directly next to my bed, plus the building's hot water pipe runs through my room) and had a series of rather terrible dreams. Of course, I overslept by about 30 minutes, remembered that I was out of cereal, needed to make 112 4-page copies and ran out the door in a rush at about 6:40am (dressed and mostly clean, obviously). I ran back in the door at 6:42am because I had forgotten my school keys. And back out. It was foggy this morning so I couldn't see out my car windows and had to drive with the windows down. By the time I got to C and 10th and my box of Econ materials tipped over, spilling about 15 books across the floor I was at the edge. And that pushed me over the top. I found myself near tears, which is never good. Got to work, ran my copies (causing the copier to jam FOUR times) and am now just taking a minute to breathe.

On the plus side, there were waffles for breakfast. May not help me feel better about not going to the gym for the last three weeks because work has been so crazy, but they taste good. I guess that's a silver lining to this morning from hell. And now I hear my students in the stairwell so it must be time to box all this up and get ready to greet the day! ... Right...