Amazing

It is the final week of the grading period, and we continue to have students register. The girl today attended our school last year, but for some unknown reason (parental accountability) she has not attended any school yet. Which means an automatic fail for the first grading period. What are the parents thinking?

I am still keeping my emotional cool at school, which is not a common thing for me. I am still as dedicated as ever, but I guess I am not taking things quite as seriously, so when the kids derail my lessons, I just shrug it off. Which is not to say I ignore what they do - they get the consequences. And I still have the usual kids who complain things are boring, as they ignore the teaching and scrape by with minimal grades.

Physically I am feeling great. Legs are bands of iron. Metabolism is high, which is good when you generate a 20 mph wind in mid-60s temperatures before dawn. Within a mile I am nice and toasty at the core. Only problem being a furnace is that in normal temperatures with minimal movement I can pop a sweat. Just sitting at the computer can moisten me, and mind over matter means that thinking about exercise ramps up my metabolism.

But not enough to burn off my layer quickly. It is slow going, but in the long term I will be victorious. Too old to expect a six-pack, and not even aiming there. Just fitness, and fit from my normal clothes. Upper body in progress, as I have found that if my pectorals extend beyond my belly, clothes hang well. Oh, and flattening out things so my belt doesn't look like it is bisecting me.